State Horticultural Show Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. 2015
| State Horticultural Show Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. 2015 | |
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| place | Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. |
| opening | April 25, 2015 |
| graduation | October 11, 2015 |
| surface | approx. 15 ha |
| Investments | approx. 14,100,000 euros |
| Reuse | Citizen and family park |
The state horticultural show in Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. took place as the 7th Saxon State Garden Show from April to October 2015 under the motto: Blossom Dreams - Habitat and was one of a total of four State Garden Shows in 2015 in Germany. Since 1996, state garden shows have been held every three years in the Free State of Saxony.
Application process
canditature
The city of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb applied with the city council resolution of May 27, 2010 as a basis. for organizing the State Garden Show 2015 at the Saxon State Ministry for Environment and Agriculture . The council of the city of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. confirmed the application and re-use concept at the city council meeting on September 27, 2010. On October 22, 2010, the evaluation committee of the Free State of Saxony visited the city for a sightseeing tour with Mayor Hans-Ludwig Richter, which included an ascent with a balloon on the crane at a height of 50 meters, from which the future garden exhibition area and its surroundings could be seen.
Surcharge
On February 1, 2011, the Saxon State Minister for the Environment and Agriculture Frank Kupfer granted the city of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. the award for hosting the 7th Saxon State Garden Show. The city asserted itself against the competitors Markkleeberg and Borna (district of Leipzig), Delitzsch ( district of northern Saxony ), Frankenberg with the municipality of Lichtenau (Saxony) ( district of central Saxony ), Neustadt ( district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains ) and Lugau ( Erzgebirgskreis ).
Open space planning competition
A Europe-wide open space planning competition was carried out for the design of the future state garden show, in which 18 offices from Germany took part. On February 3, 2012, Agriculture Minister Frank Kupfer and the deputy chairman of the jury, Prof. Dr. Ronald Scherzer-Heidenberger, the winner of the competition announced. The first-placed office for architecture, landscape architecture and urban development, Station C23 from Leipzig, was commissioned with the planning implementation of their design line in the landscape .
concept
General
The inaccessible former train station area of Oelsnitz, located north of the city center, is about 15 hectares in size and is being permanently transformed into green recreational and adventure areas, ecologically upgraded and made reusable in many ways. As a reminder of its industrial history, parts of the existing facilities are included in the design.
In 1971 the extraction of hard coal in the Lugau-Oelsnitzer hard coal area ended , so that the central transshipment point of the area was no longer needed for the transport of hard coal , wood, steel and fuel. Since 2003, the City-Bahn has been using two through tracks of the twelve-hectare track system for passenger traffic. With the measures for the state horticultural show, there will be an improved connection of residential areas, school location and economic facilities to the city center in the future.
Traffic connection
Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. is connected to the A 4 and A 72 motorways with the Stollberg-Nord, Stollberg-West, Hartenstein and Hohenstein-Ernstthal motorway junctions. In addition, the city is well connected with the cities of Stollberg, Chemnitz and Glauchau by connecting roads. In 2015 the City-Bahn will stop directly at the State Garden Show. The city is also easy to reach via the railway line between Dresden and Nuremberg ( Sachsen-Franken-Magistrale ).
Reuse
After the state horticultural show, the facility became a public park, flowing into the landscape but also to the city of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. and passes to the community of Hohndorf . The most important elements of the state garden show are preserved after the show and are used in a variety of ways as a community and family park. In May 2019, the city received the Karl Foerster Award for the creation and further development of green spaces .
Events
start of building
On April 24, 2013, the symbolic groundbreaking ceremony by Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich marked the official start of construction for the joint project between the Free State and the city.
Plantings
On May 13, 2013, Minister of State Frank Kupfer planted the tree of the year 2013 together with the mayors Hans-Ludwig Richter (Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.) And Matthias Groschwitz (Hohndorf) and the President of the Saxon Tree Nursery Association, Wolfgang Müller, in the presence of the state parliament member Uta Windisch , a wild apple ( Malus sylvestris ), on the site of the future state horticultural show. On May 22, 2013, the district administrator of the Erzgebirgskreis Frank Vogel and representatives of the district council planted the first donor tree for the state garden show on the International Day of Biodiversity. In the preparatory phase of the State Garden Show, a total of more than 400 new trees were planted. The alternating planting on around 4,000 m² contained around 100,000 flower bulbs, around 100,000 spring bloomers and around 70,000 summer flowers. Extensive shrubs were planted on about 2000 m² in the track gardens and near the ponds. In the entrance area and next to the bridge, intensive shrubs were planted on around 1000 m². Ground cover and bed roses were planted on about 600 m² on the rose hill.
Buildings
On November 6, 2013, the Landesgartenschaugesellschaft celebrated the topping-out ceremony a good four months after construction work began on the large signal box and flower hall. During the garden show, the upper floor of the large signal box serves as a viewing platform that allows a panoramic view of the entire exhibition area. There are barrier-free sanitary facilities on the ground floor. In the 600 square meter flower hall, changing exhibits from all areas of floristry and horticulture can be seen. In the small signal box, Chemnitz artist Frank Maibier dealt with the history of the place with the installation "Poetry of Energy" in the form of a floor mosaic made from a ton of coal combined with the text "Unreal May Day" by the writer Reiner Kunze , honorary citizen of the city of Oelsnitz and thus created a transition to the present. Other works of art were created in the park by local artists, including:
- Shore wind, Teo Richter, Chemnitz
- Bird dance, Christoph Roßner, Bad Schlema
- Wooden sculptures in the form of musical instruments and plant motifs by the artist group exponaRt , as well as the
- Paper mache figures "regulars"
In the entrance area of the landscape park, the former train station building was renovated in accordance with the monument and converted into a clubhouse with multi-purpose use. On the forecourt of the building is the newly created fountain "Black Gold" , a work by the Lugau artist Klaus Hirsch . The materials used, polished basalt and its shapes are reminiscent of the tunnels and shafts of the former coal production, the light of the longing of the miners for daylight. The bubbling fountain can stand for the wealth that coal mining once brought to its owners, but also for the future of the brine discovered in the mine.
On May 9, 2014 Bernd Birkigt , Managing Director of the State Garden Show Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. gGmbH in the presence of Hans-Ludwig Richter, Mayor of the city, Dr. Michael Wilhelm, State Secretary of the Saxon State Ministry of the Interior, gave the planners and other supporters the foundation stone for the graduation tower . This is 42 meters long, 10 meters high and has a grading area of 700 square meters. There are 5000 liters of brine in circulation per hour . The background for the construction was an expert opinion from 2013, in which the formation of salty, thermal water (brine) under Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. was established.
Construction site open day
On "1. Construction site open day ”on October 19, 2013, around 400 interested parties found out about current construction activities. On June 28, 2014 the “2. Open construction site day ”. The last time before the official opening was the construction site on October 18, 2014.
Event highlights
During the 170 days of the event, a colorful program of events ensured a good mood. Some artistic highlights were:
- Big Band of the Bundeswehr
- Sefora Nelson
- Stefanie Hertel
- De spruce trees
- The Magic Dream Tree with the Reinhard Lakomy Ensemble
- The Firebirds
- Gudrun Lange
but also local clubs enthused their audience:
graduation
A total of more than 415,000 visitors were counted. The 15 hectare site, a former railway wasteland, will be preserved as a multi-use leisure park. With generously laid out plantations, sunbathing lawns, railway and water playground, skate park, nature trail, Kneipp facilities and graduation tower, it will serve as a leisure and recreation area in the future. The community and family park project received recognition from the Saxon State Prize for Building Culture in November 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release on the application of the city of Oelsnitz ( memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Freie Presse, May 29, 2010
- ^ Landesgartenschau jury visits Oelsnitz - website accessed on February 8, 2013
- ↑ Cabinet follows the vote of the evaluation committee - press release from Medienservice Sachsen dated February 1, 2011
- ↑ Kupfer presents the winners of the competition for Oelsnitz 2015 - press release from Medienservice Sachsen dated February 1, 2012
- ↑ Results of the open space planning competition for the 7th Saxon State Garden Show 2015 - website accessed on February 8, 2013
- ↑ Free Press, May 18, 2019
Web links
- Concept of the winning office for the State Garden Show 2015 - accessed on February 8, 2013
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 4 " N , 12 ° 41 ′ 40" E