State Horticultural Show Löbau 2012
| State Horticultural Show Löbau 2012 | |
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 Logo of the Landesgartenschau Löbau |
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| Data | |
| place | Löbau |
| opening | April 28, 2012 |
| graduation | October 14, 2012 |
| surface | 20 ha |
| Investments | around 9,000,000 euros |
| Visitors | 480,000 |
| Reuse | public park (closed at night) and LÖBAU exhibition and event park |
The 6th Saxon State Horticultural Show took place in Löbau from April 28th to October 14th 2012 under the motto “A short way into the countryside” . It was one of three State Horticultural Shows in Germany in 2012 and counted around 480,000 visitors over the 170 days.
history
Idea and concept
With the city council resolution of July 5, 2007 as the basis, the city of Löbau submitted the application to host the State Horticultural Show 2012 to the Saxon State Ministry for Environment and Agriculture .
The commission of the Saxon state government visited Löbau on August 26, 2007. The Lord Mayor Dietmar Buchholz led the commission, which submitted the recommendation for the next venue for the State Garden Show to the Saxon state government, through Löbau and recommended himself and the city with commitment.
On December 11, 2007, the Saxon cabinet decided to award the 6th Saxon State Garden Show 2012 to the city of Löbau.
The aim is to create permanently green recreational and adventure areas on a total area of around 20 hectares. To this end, Löbau intended to ecologically upgrade the formerly industrial valley area by the Löbauer Wasser . The fallow land at the location of the former sugar factory consisted of an area of approx. One hectare in the inner city or on the outskirts of Löbau. The area was first developed in 1883 and a sugar factory was built on. Until 2002 the area served industrial use as a sugar factory. The factory buildings had already been removed from the area and as part of the revitalization applied for, only the remaining retaining walls were to be removed (clearing of the depths of former buildings) and a building was to be retained, in which the flower shows took place and the area was unsealed . Thereafter, the area was to be used as a festival and event space with an inner-city parking lot. The sedimentation basins, in which the sludge from washing the sugar beets was deposited in the past , were to become thematic adventure areas along the state horticultural trail , which was designed as a green oasis . The 16-hectare site is located near the old town, in the valley of the Löbauer Water and at its adjacent former industrial sites, which had already disappeared.
history
The Berlin landscape architects hutterreimann won the ideas and implementation competition for the 6th Saxon State Garden Show in Löbau 2012 on November 6, 2008.
On June 3, 2009, Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich was in Löbau during his district tour. He wanted to get an idea of the state of affairs and the first building work. In a short tour, Mayor Buchholz provided information about the projects, which were intended to be visitor-friendly and intergenerational. At the end of the short visit, Tillich handed over a funding notification for deep clearance in the amount of 548,000 euros to the Löbauer OB. He also signed the city's Golden Book.
The 1st Supervisory Board meeting of the Landesgartenschau Löbau 2012 gGmbH took place on June 23, 2009. Eleven supervisory boards were appointed, consisting of city councils, representatives from business and interest groups.
On October 17, 2009 at 12 noon, the last relic of the 38 m high former lime kiln of the sugar factory was blown up with a so-called steel cutting blast .
During the closing event of the 5th Saxon State Garden Show in Reichenbach on October 18, 2009, Mayor Kießling Löbau wished a lot of momentum and tailor-made solutions. There was a symbolic baton handover in the form of a scissor swing to Mayor Buchholz, Mayor Storch and the two managing directors.
On December 7th, 2009 the award ceremony and the presentation of the logo of the 6th Löbau Garden Show took place. 52 citizens and professional offices had entered the competition for the garden show logo with 111 suggestions. The first prize winner was the Eichler advertising agency from Großschweidnitz . All logo proposals were shown in an exhibition in the Johanniskirche until mid-January 2010 .
Löbau announced the construction project for the State Garden Show on December 31, 2009 across Europe. The first construction projects should start on the site in 2010 and around nine million euros should be invested.
The Landesgartenschau Löbau presented itself for the first time on January 29, 2010 at the travel fair in Dresden in cooperation with the Honigbrunnen and thus attracted attention for the first time in Saxony.
On February 1, 2010, the GmbH applied for funding of nine million euros from the State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology for the preparation of the State Garden Show 2012 in Löbau .
On February 6, 2010, the period for the 6th Saxon State Garden Show was set. The Supervisory Board agreed on this date at its most recent meeting.
On April 1, 2010 the team was formed around the management, consisting of managing director Jochen Heinz, senior construction manager Jens Gößner, event manager Joachim Birnbaum and head of marketing, press and public relations Lutz Gollmer.
Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich celebrated the first groundbreaking on the State Garden Show on April 23, 2010.
The mascot, a stylized figure of the cast-iron King Friedrich August Tower from Löbauer Berg , was named Friedrich on May 21, 2010 .
The tender for the first construction lot began on June 11, 2010. Olaf Berger and Uta Bresan became musical sponsors of the State Garden Show on June 19, 2010. The construction work was hindered by the flood on the state horticultural show site on August 15, 2010. On October 14, 2010, the admission prices were set (normal admission 13 euros, the same prices as 2009 in Reichenbach).
The Landesgartenschau-Theater-Gruppe was founded on December 6, 2010.
The start of the first plantings was on April 7, 2011. The topping-out ceremony at the Weidenkirche took place on April 16, 2011. The foundation stone for the exhibition and event hall was laid on August 17, 2011.
Advance ticket sales began on November 7, 2011.
Venue
The venue was located in the area of the former Löbau sugar factory and along the Löbauer Water (former Lautex site).
Garden show grounds in numbers
- Earth mass movements: approx. 95,000 tons
- Gravel / gravel / sand paving: approx. 30,000 tons
- Asphalt surfaces: approx. 14,000 m²
- Lawn and meadow areas: over 50,000 m²
- Tree planting: approx. 300 large trees and 670 birch trees as forest products
- Bush plantings: approx. 1300 pieces
- Perennial areas: around 2,800 m² with almost 17,000 perennials
- Grasses and marsh plants: approx. 700 m² with around 2000 plants
- Aquatic and floating leaf plants: over 1000 and 120 water lilies
Five companies were responsible for the execution of the services in the outdoor facilities, with the majority being awarded in the region. Only the wood deliveries and the fence work were outsourced to companies in West Saxony and Brandenburg.
Herrmannbad
The Herrmannbad was renovated as part of the State Garden Show and reopened on April 28, 2012. In the period from April 28 to October 14, the outdoor pool had around 44,000 visitors.
Worth seeing
- Over 4000 m² of alternating planting with over 85,000 flower bulbs in more than 60 varieties, over 105,000 spring flowers in more than 55 varieties, almost 70,000 summer flowers in more than 140 varieties
- Dahlia variety show on over 400 m² with more than 80 different varieties
- Model grave with around 30 grave sites, designed by 13 stonemasons and 19 cemetery gardeners
- Nursery garden with 7 different temporary exhibitions
- Heath garden on more than 300 m² as a permanent facility
- Exhibition contribution for outdoor orchids with almost 50 different orchid species
- from June exhibition area with hardy gerbera varieties (Traugott-Gerber-Gesellschaft)
- 14 changing indoor flower shows with over 150 exhibitors
- 5 changing exhibitions on the ground floor of the sugar warehouse
- Info pavilions from LSK / TLK and Galabau-Verband
- Gardener's market with predominantly regional suppliers
- Breed poultry exhibition of the Löbauer poultry breeding associations
- Geological path with 22 rocks from Upper Lusatia
- Themed garden of the garden culture path on both sides of the Neisse eV as a stylized student contribution of the TU Dresden
More than 900 events took place in the exhibition and event hall, in the Weidenkirche and in the entire state horticultural show area, with more than 10,000 participants.
Reuse
The subsequent use of the site is a public park that is closed at night. The exhibition and event hall will continue to be used as an event location, as it was during the state horticultural show.
The alternating plantings were removed again; infrastructural facilities were retained.
