Kannenfeldpark
The Kannenfeldpark is 9.1 hectares in area the largest park in the Swiss city of Basel ; it is located in the St. Johann district .
The park was built in 1951. Previously was located on the eponymous "optional field" that before the demolition was used as arable land the city walls, a 1868 erected cemetery . The so-called Gottesacker on the Kannenfeld was expanded for the last time in 1912 and closed in 1932. Some of the graves were relocated, such as that of the poet pastor Jonas Breitenstein at his most important place of work, Binningen . In addition to the mighty entrance portal on Burgfelderstrasse, the enclosure wall, the gardener's house and some monuments remain from the former cemetery.
There is a Chinese parasol tree in Kannenfeldpark , which was planted on November 19, 2016 and christened the tree of poetry . There was already a tree of poetry planted on March 28, 1981 on Kannenfeldplatz , but it can no longer be found today.
At the Kannenfeldplatz in front of it, BVB operates stops for tram line 1 and for bus lines 36, 38 and 50.
Web links
- Photos in the image database of the canton of Basel-Stadt
- From the churchyard to the sandpit On the past and present of the parks.
- Design of the Kannenfeld playground by the Basel city gardener Richard Arioli
Individual evidence
- ↑ BASEL: TREE OF POETRY 2016 WILL BE BAPTIZED. BÜRO DLB, November 15, 2016, accessed on November 22, 2016 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 56 " N , 7 ° 34 ′ 14" E