Krupp Park
The Krupp Park is a park under construction in the west quarter of the city of Essen . It was created in the course of the urban development project Krupp-Gürtel and is located here in a north-south extension parallel to the west of the Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard . There is a sports facility in the southern part of the park.
character
The entire park was created as a landscape compensation for the construction of the adjacent Thyssenkrupp headquarters and the Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard . It extends over part of the area of the former Krupp cast steel factory , which had been fallow since the destruction in World War II and the subsequent demolition of parts of the factory for repair purposes and was largely inaccessible.
The park, which is about 23 hectares in size and 1.3 kilometers in length, consists of the northern and southern parts, creating the fourth largest inner-city area for recreation after the Gruga , Borbeck Castle and Hügel Park . After initial planning in the 1990s and the landscape architecture design in mid-2006, the first earthworks began in March 2007.
The cost of the entire park was estimated at 6.1 million euros. Involved are the city of Essen, the urban development support of the federal government and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , the Stadtwerke Essen and the Emschergenossenschaft .
Northern part of the park
On August 22, 2009, the then Mayor of Essen, Wolfgang Reiniger, opened the approximately 12 hectare northern part of the Krupp Park with a park festival. Its length in north-south direction is about 700 meters with a width varying from 135 to 215 meters. The design was based on nature - there is a high density of trees, but also meadows and clearings as well as a lake. The trees that are no longer being built as a result of the construction work on the Krupp belt will be completely offset by the Krupp Park. A hilly landscape has emerged from the excavation of the Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard. A high valley runs between five hills in a north-south direction. The highest hill protrudes about 12 meters from the terrain, which is 72 meters above sea level. NN corresponds. Playgrounds, a beach volleyball field and other ball playgrounds as well as lawns have been set up. The so-called forest playground was largely designed by children from schools in the area.
The landscape architect Andreas Kipar, who comes from Gelsenkirchen and mostly works in Italy, developed the Krupp Park together with the citizens of the neighboring districts. To the north of the northern Krupp Park is the kidney-shaped lake, 9,100 square meters in size and up to 2.8 meters deep, which is fed exclusively with rainwater from the park and the roofs of the Thyssenkrupp headquarters . At the lake with around 14,000 cubic meters of water there is a small amphitheater with a stage protruding into the lake. To the east, on the Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard, there is a 160-meter-long walk-on noise protection gabion wall.
Southern part of the park
In the southern part of the Krupp Park, about 600 meters long, between Altendorfer Straße and Frohnhauser Straße, there are about eight hectares of park area, part of which is forested. Original plans envisaged that the entire part of the park, formed by hills, should be left to nature.
As a result of a political compromise, an urban sports facility was built in the park to replace the sports facilities that were no longer available at the Bockmühle, where company headquarters were being expanded, and at Serlostrasse in Altendorf . The sports facility in the southern Krupp Park opened in 2018. According to the estimates of the Essen sports and swimming pool companies, their construction cost around 3.8 million euros, plus around one million euros invested in landscaping by the city's own Grün und Gruga company. The sports complex is about five meters above street level on artificially raised hills. Three sports clubs will be based here in the future and will have a 105 × 68 meter artificial turf pitch with a small adjacent pitch and a club building.
At the beginning of 2018, the long-standing car recycling facility on Altendorfer Straße closed here. The exposed contaminated area will initially be sealed with a mineral clay geotextile in 2019. After filling with soil, the terrain is modeled. It is then planted with wildflowers, islands of grass, shrubs and trees such as bird cherry , sycamore maple , English oak and hornbeam . Paths to the Kronenberg Center and Altendorfer Straße will be laid out. This area will be attached to the southern Krupp Park, which should be completed in 2022.
This will result in total costs of 2.7 million euros, of which the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is contributing around 2.2 million euros from the state program Future Urban Green .
Web links
- Krupp-Gürtel, A new park in the Krupp-Gürtel - accessed December 5, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Lebige-Stadt.de: Current information on the Krupp Park from June 4, 2009 ; Retrieved December 5, 2017
- ↑ The sports facility in Krupp-Park is about to open in: IKZ-online.de from July 12, 2017 - accessed on April 12, 2019
- ↑ Essen.de Grün und Gruga is entering the final phase of the construction of the Krupp Park South ; Press release from March 13, 2019
- ↑ The Krupp Park will grow by eleven hectares by 2020 in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from December 5, 2017 - accessed on December 5, 2017
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 43 " N , 6 ° 59 ′ 17" E