Kolpingplatz (Düsseldorf)
The Kolpingplatz , also in the spelling Kolping-Platz , formerly Clever Platz , is a park and square in Düsseldorf - Pempelfort , which is used above ground as a green area , playground and marketplace and below the surface for an underground car park . The square, around 100 meters wide and 150 meters long, is based on a rectangular floor plan and is bordered by Klever Straße to the north, Mauerstraße to the east, Pfalzstraße to the south and Schwerinstraße to the west. After the Second World War , the city of Düsseldorf named the square after the Catholic priest Adolph Kolping , who was active in social reform . A sculpture made of Roman travertine by Hermann Isenmann on the east side of the square as a Kolping monument in 1954 shows the "Father Kolping - Apostle of the Family" in a group of figures with a working-class family.
History and uses
The square is based on the rectangular layout of streets and building blocks that shaped the urban development of the northern area of Pempelfort and the southern area of Golzheim on both sides of Klever Straße from the 1890s . On the streets surrounding the square - even before the beginning of World War I - building blocks for multi-storey multi-storey buildings were built on planning-given alignment lines , which were tailored to the housing needs of a bourgeois middle class that was growing rapidly in the waning Wilhelmine Empire .
In addition to the residential buildings, which give the perception of the urban space closed edges to this day, the square is horticultural framed by rows of trees , today by double rows of swamp and red oaks . These rows of trees framing the square are a trademark of the "garden squares" that have been created in Düsseldorf since the second half of the 19th century and are based on ideas of city beautification and the garden city idea.
The square itself was created between 1902 and 1904 in connection with the 1902 industrial and commercial exhibition in Düsseldorf and the development of the Golzheimer Insel through Klever Strasse, which was driven by this exhibition . To his further embodiment, the Düsseldorf Parks Department, under the direction of the city gardener designed Heinrich Hillebrecht stand, one of three series framed Wilhelmine Schmuckplatz, the interior by an Art Nouveau - ground floor was designed in the shape of a large oval. The garden, which was planted with flowers and flowering trees, could be entered via diagonal entrances at the corners of the square and two entrances on the long sides.
As early as 1913, the planning of this garden was revised to enable a more versatile use, and redesigned according to a concept penned by the garden architect Walter von Engelhardt , who had taken over the management of the gardening office in 1906. The new garden plan changed the interior of the square to a rectangle. At the two corners of the west side, corner seats were created on a square floor plan, which were framed with strictly trimmed small trees. On the east side, along Mauerstraße, three niches were created with seats, the middle niche was provided with a basin . In the middle of the square, elongated parallel beds with corner accents were laid out in an axially symmetrical arrangement.
After the Second World War, in the course of which the Kolpingplatz area was also badly damaged by bombs as a result of air raids , the garden area was redesigned while maintaining the framework provided by the characteristic outer rows of trees. This redesign let the representative green recede in favor of the functions of a newly created playground.
At the beginning of the 21st century, until June 2008, there was another redesign. The place was a consistent with a part of the inner tree population Quartier garage basement with 128 plots for residents. Their access ramp is on the west side (Schwerinstrasse). There are small staircases in the underground car park on the north and south sides of the square. Various usage zones were created above ground: lawns lined with low hedges are supplemented on the east side of the square by a boccia area and a “water playground” filled with sand and equipped with various play equipment. On the west side of the square there is a ball playground in the form of a football field , which is surrounded by a high safety fence. This area is supplemented with paved surfaces on which benches and table tennis tables are set up. In the north-west corner there is a larger sand area that is equipped with climbing equipment. Next to the football field on Schwerinstrasse is the single-storey building of a transformer station owned by Stadtwerke Düsseldorf , whose 138 m² facades were painted in 2012 by artist Peter Norf with the Fortuna 95 motif .
In addition to being a green area, playground and underground car park, the space on two of the outer sidewalks is used twice a week - Wednesdays and Saturdays - for the Rhenish farmers' market . This market, which complements the local supply options in the district center on Nordstrasse , specializes in retailing regionally produced food and flowers.
literature
- Wieland Koenig (Ed.): Düsseldorfer Gartenlust . Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1987, p. 196 ff. (Chapter 10: Garden spaces ), p. 199 f. (Catalog No. 10.12: 2 plans for the Cleverplatz )
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolf Kolping (group of figures) , website in the portal deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de ( German digital library )
- ^ Residential garages: Pempelfort , website in the duesseldorf.de portal , accessed on November 21, 2017
- ↑ Transformer stations: We beautify the cityscape . Website in the swd-ag.de portal , accessed on August 13, 2016
- ↑ Farmer's market upgrades Kolpingplatz . Article from September 17, 2015 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on August 13, 2016
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 26.6 " N , 6 ° 46 ′ 44.2" E