Klingelpützpark
The Klingelpützpark is an inner-city landscape park of around 2 hectares in the northern old town of Cologne . It was built from 1969 to 1971 on the grounds of the abandoned Klingelpütz prison and, due to its spacious layout, is a typical example of urban design.
location
The park is bounded in the south by Kyotostraße, in the southeast by the streets Klingelpütz and Plankgasse, in the northeast by Vogteistraße and in the northwest by Gereonswall. At the western corner, the Klingelpützpark is directly adjacent to the grounds of the Gereonswall secondary school and elementary school, the Gereonsmühle and the Hansaplatz green space , which is oriented towards the Hansaring and with which it forms a spatial unit. The Klingelpützpark is surrounded by Cologne's Hansaviertel, Eigelsteinviertel , Ursulaviertel and Gereonsviertel.
history
The creation of the park goes back to an exchange of land between the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the city of Cologne . In the agreement from 1958, the city of Cologne provided the state with a building plot in the Cologne-Ossendorf district for the construction of a new correctional facility. In exchange the city after completion of the new should JVA get the Klingelpützgelände and undertook to re use it in a public park and recreation area. In the exchange agreement between the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the city of Cologne from April 17, 1958, it says: “The municipality of Cologne declares that the area of the“ Klingelpütz ”will be used as a public green and recreation area after the building has been demolished, as it is in the Master plan of the city of Cologne is shown under building law. "
After the prison was completely relocated to its new location in May 1969, the park was laid out between 1969 and 1971 according to excellent drafts of applications in the course of the awarding of the Peter Joseph Lenné Prize , to which it was spacious and open on all sides Design largely owes. The rubble from the demolished prison was heaped up on the north-west side of the park to form a hill and, in connection with a memorial stone designed by Hans Karl Burgeff , is a memorial for the probably more than 1000 people executed in the old Klingelpütz prison during the Nazi era .
The Klingelpützpark is the most important green area of the 20th century in Cologne's old town and was named Monument of the Month for September 2008 by the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection (RVDL).
Controversy over the park
Since 2006, the city of Cologne has been planning a network of several educational institutions around the Klingelpützpark in the northern old town in the sense of an integrated campus in which children, young people and adults should be able to learn in a green environment within the city. Most of the planned new buildings will be built on the sites of the existing educational institutions, wherever possible with a view of the green and with access to the green. Furthermore, the plans provide for a building for the common use of the educational institutions, which is to be accommodated on the already sealed area at the corner of Vogteistraße / Gereonswall (with a built-up area of approx. 1250 m²). Parts of the outside areas of the new secondary school would take up part of the park area, but these would be made openly accessible to all visitors to the park. The residents protest against the structural changes in the park.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://ratsinformation.stadt-koeln.de/vo0050.asp?__kvonr=21225&voselect=4656 Council decision of the city of Cologne
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '46.7 " N , 6 ° 57' 0.9" E