Kienbergpark
| Kienbergpark Jelena Šantić Peace Park |
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| Part of the park, seen from the Feldberger Ring | ||
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| place | Berlin | |
| District | Berlin-Hellersdorf | |
| Created | 1994-1996 | |
| Newly designed | 2007 | |
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Spremberger Straße, Hellersdorfer Straße (east) , Feldberger Ring (south) |
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| Buildings | Peace sign | |
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| User groups | Pedestrians, cyclists | |
| Park design | Dutch landscape architects Bureau B + B (in the 1990s) | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Parking area | 600,000 m² | |
52 ° 31 '52 " N , 13 ° 35' 6" E
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The Kienbergpark (until 2016: Jelena-Šantić-Friedenspark ) is a public green and recreational area on the eastern bank of the Wuhle in the Berlin district of Hellersdorf . It was named after the 102.2 meter high Kienberg in the center of the park. It was laid out in 1996 on the initiative of the Hellersdorf district administration on previous fallow land and given a peace sign made from natural materials. The park is also part of a long-term planned and gradually implemented overarching green belt, the Trianonpark, which extends from Ahrensfelde to Köpenick , where it merges into the Köpenick Forest. The facility, initially called the Rohrbruchpark , was renamed in 2003 after the Serbian peace activist and prima ballerina Jelena Šantić . In the course of the IGA 2017 , the park was renamed Kienbergpark and slightly redesigned.
history
The Wuhletal, an ice age meltwater channel , runs through various districts on the eastern outskirts of Berlin in a north-south direction. In earlier centuries it was initially not used by humans. In the area described here, however, the city of Berlin bought land in the 19th century and had sewage fields built on it. It was not until the mid-1960s that this land use was abandoned and the large housing estates of Marzahn and Hellersdorf emerged on the edges . The Wuhle was fed with water through the construction of a new sewage treatment plant and served as a “ green lung ”.
On a map of the eastern Berlin area from 1899, the Kopf-Berg is located a little further east of the site of today's man-made park , but without any height information.
The Berlin Garden Show was opened on the western side of the wide Wuhletal in 1987 , the eastern river bank opposite was temporarily left to its own devices. After the political turnaround , the Hellersdorf district administration had the excavated earth from the Hellen Mitte pile up on this bank area . This created a new hill about 60 meters high. Soon after, it was decided to also create a park on the nine hectare area, which was called the burst pipe park . In July 1994, a landscape planning ideas and implementation competition was announced across Europe, which was won by the architects Bureau B + B from Amsterdam . In their plans they had provided for a sensitive redesign, taking full account of the landscape. The on-site work was mainly carried out in 1995 and was completed in a first phase with the opening of the park in July 1996. Jelena Šantić, who was already seriously ill at the time, attended the opening and inaugurated the oversized peace symbol made of stones and flowers on the slope . On March 22, 2003, a few days after the third anniversary of the peace activist's death, the park was renamed Jelena-Santic-Friedenspark at the suggestion of the Berlin peace organization Gruppe 485 . The expansion of the park will be continued step by step.
In preparation for the International Garden Exhibition 2017 (IGA) , the peace symbol was included in the planning for the IGA. The name Jelena Šantić disappeared behind the marketing name Kienbergpark . It was no longer public, but part of the IGA site.
The park
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The park consists of different usage areas. Directly in the valley area, a natural design was carried out with meadows and individual groups of trees , in which the Hasenpfuhl, created from a construction pit full of groundwater, was included. All paths in the park are handicapped accessible .
The newly designed slope enables extensive recreational use with play and sunbathing lawns, football field, beach volleyball court and areas for hang-gliding or sledding. Even larger cultural events have already taken place here. In connection with the IGA 2017, a lookout tower named Wolkenhain and a cable car with a length of 1.5 kilometers, which crosses the entire park and the gardens of the world , were built on the top of the mountain .
A circular path with tree plantations and a rainwater retention basin was created around the 60 meter high plateau . The hill offers viewpoints of the entire Wuhletal, the Gardens of the World, but also of the Kienberg. A natural bobsleigh run also starts from here. On the pastures, rare native horse, cattle and sheep breeds found a home in an archepark . The peace sign, borrowed from the anti-nuclear movement in the 1950s, has become the trademark of the park and can even be seen from the air. However, militant opponents have already damaged the symbol several times, so that police officers and security guards had to be used.
Location and accessibility
The park is relatively long at around 450 meters, it is located between Wuhle (west), Spremberger Straße (north), the southern section of Hellersdorfer Straße (east) and Feldberger Ring (south). The distance to the Kienberg underground station (Gardens of the World) is just under 100 meters, which means it can be reached quickly on foot. The green area can also be accessed directly from the Wuhlewanderweg as it is not fenced.
Web links
- Senate of Berlin with information about the JS Peace Park
- Environmental education center Kienbergpark
Individual evidence
- ^ Plan of Berlin, 1899; online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jelena-Santic-Friedenspark on the website of the Senate Department for Urban Development.
- ↑ Press release of the BA Marzahn-Hellersdorf of March 13, 2003 on the renaming of the park with numerous details
- ↑ Frank Beiersdorff: Who still knows the Jelena-Santiĉ-Friedenspark? ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the party Die Linke Marzahn-Hellersdorf.
- ^ Festival Kulturschock in June 2004 .
- ↑ Climbing tip 4: Jelena Santic Peace Park. A political survey that should also be discussed ecologically. Private homepage with detailed information on the prehistory of the park; Retrieved January 14, 2011.
