Grütt landscape park

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The Grütt Landscape Park (also Grüttpark ) is a 51 hectare green area in Lörrach . In 1983, the Baden-Württemberg State Horticultural Show took place on the newly designed site . The largest park in Lörrach is considered a recreational area for the city and its surrounding area. At the same time, large parts of the park area are a water protection area with several deep wells . Overall, the area covers an area of ​​around one square kilometer. The near-natural inland waters including their bank vegetation are legally protected biotopes .

In addition to playgrounds, sports fields and barbecue facilities, the Grüttpark's leisure activities also include a café, walking and cycling paths. On the edge of the park there are exhibition halls, various leisure facilities, the Grüttpark Stadium and other sports facilities. The park is divided into two sections by the Wiesental bridge belonging to the A 98 and a crossbar to the main road, which are connected by a footbridge and a pedestrian and bicycle underpass. The park is the location of several works of art in public space .

history

Before designing to the park

Before the park opened in 1983 , the Grütt was part of a meadow landscape . The name Grütt is derived from the word rütten , which means to clear. The river valley and the floodplain were this Won been cut down in earlier times, the area with a variety of tributaries snaking through the area. After the river was straightened in the years 1806 to 1823 by the Baden hydraulic engineer Johann Gottfried Tulla , meadows and mainly agricultural fields were created in the floodplain, with which a rich biodiversity was lost.

From November 1920 to July 1921, the Lörrach airfield with passenger and mail traffic was located on the edge of today's Grüttpark . Due to an instruction resulting from the Peace Treaty of Versailles , the shutdown followed. The orphaned place was last used for a day of flying on March 24, 1954 . Since then, the site has been completely built over. On January 7, 1925, there was a plane crash at Lörrach airfield, in which the pilot died. A memorial on the northwestern edge of the Grüttpark commemorates the accident and the airfield. Its inauguration took place on October 10, 1988 by the then Defense Minister Manfred Wörner .

The area between Brombach and Lörrach city center has been used for the city's water supply since 1967 .

Application for the state horticultural show

On September 29, 1978, then Lord Mayor Egon Hugenschmidt named three reasons for Lörrach's candidacy for the state horticultural show:

Firstly, with the permanent designation of the approximately 100 hectare site as a green area, a compensation measure for the traffic structures on the A 98 and the new B 317 was to be created. The impairment of the landscape in Lörrach could thus be compensated. Second, a cross-border green area along the Wiese and Langen Erlen rivers in Riehen and Basel created a connection to the neighboring state. Thirdly, because of the special location in the border triangle France-Switzerland-Germany, take the chance to present yourself.

The 300th anniversary of the granting of city rights in 1682/83 would have been the ideal date for the state horticultural show. Together with external consultants and representatives of the water industry, the city planners formulated the targets for the competition area, which also serves as an important water catchment area for the city. For example, the sole insulation of the bodies of water, such as ponds and streams, and the placement of the buildings would be significant. As a local recreation park, the northern districts of Brombach , Haagen , Hauingen and Tumringen were to be connected to the core city to the south and the green space deficit that had prevailed up to that point was reduced.

Half a year after the application, on March 27, 1979, Baden-Wuerttemberg accepted the bid for Loerrach against 30 competitors.

Competition, planning and construction

Grüttpark 1982 before the opening of the state horticultural show

After the successful application, the state and the city announced an open competition for ideas and implementation for the garden show on August 22, 1979. Of 15 submitted works, three had to be eliminated due to deficiencies, so that the jury had twelve works for assessment. Under the chairmanship of the garden and landscape architect Horst Wagenfeld from Düsseldorf, the first three winners were awarded on January 18 and 19, 1980. The first prize went to Bernd Meier, landscape architect from Freiburg im Breisgau , E. Riedel, landscape architect from Lahr , Manfred Morlock, architect from Schallstadt and Hubertus Bühler, architect from Freiburg.

The city council factions of the CDU , SPD and Free Voters supported the project from the start. The Greens and an interest group made up of nature conservationists and committed citizens criticized that the concept was too park-like and did not meet the requirements of a water protection area . In addition, the use by agriculture and horticultural plantings bring additional fertilizer use. In addition, the traffic structures associated with the state horticultural show made the project seem implausible from the point of view of nature conservation.

Sign for the State Horticultural Show 1983

A non-local journalist was chosen for the advertising and public relations work. In retrospect, the failure to advertise with the bus companies was rated as a serious failure, which meant that few visitors found their way to Lörrach via travel companies. They had completely neglected to initiate press work in neighboring Switzerland in good time. This turned out to be a mistake. The engagement with the journalist was dissolved and two local journalists were entrusted with the task as part-time jobs.

In August 1982, a jury of experts chose the logo of the Basel graphic artist Francis Rusterholz for the state horticultural show. It consists of three interlocking graphic elements made of blue and green tones. On the left it bears the blue letter “L”, in the middle a stylized arc in dark green represents the geographical proximity of Lörrach to the knee of the Rhine , and in the upper right a light green leaf symbolizes the park and nature. The signet was used on all posters, banderoles, stickers and other advertising media; it was also the logo of the newly founded Landesgartenschau Lörrach 1983 GmbH.

The groundbreaking ceremony took place on September 2, 1981 at the Landesgartenschauegelände. On that day, Lord Mayor Hugenschmidt and Mayor Edmund Henkel drove a caterpillar vehicle as a symbolic prelude to the construction work. In December of that year, the excavation work for the Grüttsee and the stream was completed. The fallow land, previously mostly used for agriculture, was renatured and a system of paths was set up for walkers. The trees donated by the population were planted by committed citizens on March 20, 1982, Tree Day .

State Horticultural Show 1983

Opening and general dates

Lothar Späth (left) and Egon Hugenschmidt at the Loerrach town hall at the opening ceremony

On April 15, 1983, on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the town charter, the state horticultural show was ceremoniously opened in the presence of the then Prime Minister Lothar Späth and the Lord Mayor Hugenschmidt. For the opening, the Deutsche Bundesbahn had a special train (Gartenschau-Kurier) run from Karlsruhe to the train station in Lörrach-Haagen on the exhibition grounds. After a ceremony at the Lörrach town hall , the celebrities at the main station in Lörrach boarded this special train with a delegation of traditional costumes and allowed themselves to be driven to the garden show grounds. A curiosity on the side was the fact that the high-ranking politician Späth cut the obligatory ribbon for the opening on the garden show grounds, but did not even watch the garden show. He flew back to Stuttgart and promised to visit the garden show at a later date. Späth is said to have traveled to Lörrach very late a few weeks later, so that again it was not enough for a stroll through the exhibition, although it stayed that way.

Decorated special train garden show courier

The state horticultural show lasted until October 16, 1983 and recorded 1,045,000 visitors. The number of around 400,000 visitors thus fell short of expectations. The garden show began with heavy rain, followed by an unusual heat wave. Apart from the weather, the clumsy advertising and the misjudgment of the Swiss public are blamed for the visitor deficit.

The motto of the garden show was the Alemannic "Chumm go luege" - "Come on, take a look at it"; presented by the goose "Lörli" as a mascot . The design of the green areas goes back to the town planning director Klaus Stein, among others.

In addition to the Garden Show Courier , the Flower Express was the second special train that ran from Heidelberg or Offenburg to Lörrach and back during the State Garden Show . The names of the two special trains were determined by a competition launched by the Landesgartenschau GmbH.

As a kick-off, the Deutsche Bundespost issued a large round stamp on April 15, which drew attention to first-day letters about the state horticultural show. At the same time, four horticultural show special postcards and two historical postcards with motifs from Lörrach around the turn of the century were published.

Infrastructure

Flow of visitors at the main entrance

At the state horticultural show in Lörrach, only the eastern part was chargeable and fenced. The main entrance was in the northeast, at today's sports and leisure center. At the west entrance (entrance "Grütt"), east of the waterworks, there is now a meadow.

In addition to the possibility of taking the train to the State Garden Show, the LGS organization provided around 1,600 car and 40 bus parking spaces on the site.

There were eight restaurants in the park area, five of which were in the fenced area. A total of 1000 covered and 600 outdoor spaces were available to visitors.

An electrically operated, rubber-tyred exhibition track from the manufacturer Intamin connected the main entrance with the western edge of the Grüttpark, around 3.5 kilometers away. The underpass at the “Grütt” entrance was originally too steep for the exhibition runway, so it had to be flattened.

A temporary building at the main entrance served as an information and press office. In addition to telephones, there was a mailbox, a dog storage facility, wheelchair rental and toilets. Eight outhouses were spread across the site. A handicapped accessible toilet was located at the main entrance. Emergency services, paramedics, guards and the police were also stationed there. Twelve workers were subordinate to a column leader for the maintenance of the garden. After the end of the state horticultural show, eight of these workers remained as gardeners at the municipal horticultural office.

Exhibitions and actions

Flower hall on the opening day

In the north-eastern part of the garden show grounds, a biotope was created by the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND) . The hall shows and events on various topics took place there on 2000 square meters. In addition to a permanent program, 26 special horticultural shows followed alternating two weeks. In the "Meeting Point Baden-Württemberg", the focus was on horticultural exhibition themes, including: Ikebana and Bonsai , berry and cherry varieties, floral objects and textile pictures - floral objects . There were other exhibitions on land consolidation and its use, biotope protection, landscape policy, protection of people from water, flood protection and the presentation of the BUND's nature conservation campaign Save the Frogs .

The design conception of the park tried to create a landscape connection with the surrounding area. There was a series of exhibitions on the subject of water in the new waterworks in the "Treffpunkt Baden-Württemberg" and in the ice rink. The topic of agriculture and forestry was taken into account with an educational trail. The farmers, whose fields (around 20 hectares) were leased during the garden show, planted the areas with maize , rape , grain , clover and summer flowers. The subject of viticulture was represented with a simulated historical vineyard and a modern vineyard. Old and new grape varieties , cultivation methods and yields from the past and the present were compared.

In addition to a series of sculptures and other art installations , there was an action weekend Young artists introduce themselves and the contribution “Arts and Crafts in Baden-Württemberg” as well as art exhibitions in the Villa Fehr and at Rötteln Castle on the subject of art.

Costume parade at the State Garden Show

The state horticultural show also dealt with other topics in a series of exhibitions, including: solidarity with the Third World , healthy and fit into old age , staying healthy - getting active , the museums of the region introduce themselves , two weekends of action by rural women , federal association for self-protection , Dolls in costume for the district costume festival as well as the student competition of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg “Join in” .

Events and programs

There were various events and information for both lay and specialist audiences. To the layman visitor was offered Thursday in the "meeting place Baden-Württemberg" weekly changing lectures, films, slide -Check on the topics of gardens, fruit and vegetable, the pest control and conservation as florists . For trade visitors there was in the center of the Gardener information a fenced exhibition area for professional exchange. In addition, several horticultural conferences were held in Lörrach during the horticultural show year.

Special activities for children and young people were held on Wednesdays. In addition to an afternoon of games on the playground at “Treffpunkt Baden-Württemberg” and “Grütt-Treff”, there were roller-skating discos in the ice rink, youth afternoons, children's parties, fairy tale afternoons, puppet theater, holiday programs and a children's circus.

In addition to the campaigns and programs directly on the garden show grounds, other institutions also took advantage of the increased number of visitors for special events. For example, a classic car rally took place from May 6th to 8th, 1983 . The Landesbausparkasse organized a multi-day cycle race for amateurs from June 11th to 17th, which ran from Mannheim to Lörrach. The final stage from Bonndorf to Lörrach ended at the sports facilities in Grütt. The award ceremony was held on the State Garden Show grounds. In addition, the Baden Gardener's Day took place on June 28 and 29, and the Landesgymnaestrada gymnastics festival was held from September 16 to 18.

On July 20, 1983, the 500,000th visitor to the Lörrach State Garden Show was honored.

Cost and conclusion

Not all of the required land was owned by the city, and parts of it were leased for the duration of the event. The costs for this amounted to 7.4 million DM. An external development measure was the construction of a temporary platform at Haagen train station.

The investment budget was handled within the city's property budget. Together with the state grant of 5 million DM, the total costs amounted to 17,569,518 DM (corresponds to today's purchasing power of 16,775,500 euros). Costs for accompanying construction measures came to a good 8 million DM. The costs are roughly divided into three main items:

Buildings, including meadow walkways  3,043,740 DM
Landscaping, horticultural systems, plants  12,328,789 DM
Building costs  2,196,989 DM
 17,569,518 DM

This was offset by income from ticket sales amounting to DM 2,855,185 and from rent, commissions and donations of DM 1,887,061. The underfunding to be borne by the city of Lörrach amounted to around DM 5.3 million.

In addition to 25,000 season tickets, 350,000 single tickets and 450,000 special tickets were sold. The regular admission price was 7.50 DM , children from 6 to 14 years of age had to pay 3 DM, a family ticket cost 17 DM. From 5:30 p.m. there was an evening fee reduced by a good half.

The verdict on the state horticultural show was consistently positive. The park is useful for the Lörrach population, judged the specialist magazine Heim + Garten , and described the offer of the state horticultural show in a multi-page article. With regard to the cost problem, the paper came to the conclusion that the funds for securing the green of the motorway bridge should have been used anyway. The increased expenditure is justified by the permanently created green alone. Despite the lack of a record number of visitors, the participants should be given high praise, the specialist journal Deutscher Gartenbau stated in its August 1983 issue.It was a progressive solution not to have the entire site designed as an exhibition park and also to separate the exhibition part from the landscape park well accomplished. In addition, for a city like Lörrach, which does not have an overall green planning concept, the creation of this landscape park is a remarkable achievement that would not have been possible in this form without the garden show. The garden subscription magazine Mein Schöne Garten called the state horticultural show in Lörrach the “little sister of the IGA ”, which took place in Munich that same year . As benevolent and praiseworthy as the trade press saw the event in an enduring context, the local press was just as critical of the immediate financial impact of the garden show. The Oberbadische Volksblatt denounced that the calculated deficit had almost doubled and that the figures should be withheld from the public. A "final sale" of inventory used during the garden show should probably keep the disaster within bounds.

After the state horticultural show

After the end of the garden show, the exhibition area in the east was also converted into a public park. The meadows of the park remained partially natural as a water protection and water catchment area . Since the municipal youth associations rejected the “Jugendtreff Grütt”, it was converted into a municipal kindergarten (currently: Waldorf kindergarten).

Since 1972, SV Weil and FV Lörrach-Brombach have been organizing an international youth football tournament. The age groups of the U10 to U14 juniors play both in the hall and on the field. In addition to the sports hall of the Markgrafenschule in Weil am Rhein, most of the games take place in the Wintersbuckhalle, which is south of Grütt, and the artificial turf pitches at the Grüttpark Stadium. Participants in the traditional soccer tournament include Junior teams from FC Barcelona , Juventus Turin , FC Chelsea , Bayern Munich , Borussia Dortmund and FC Basel . The sponsorship of the sporting event is handled by a Lörracher real estate company for several years.

Grüttpark in winter 2010

From 2005 to 2015, the regional found on the green areas in the northern part metal - outdoor concert bathing in the blood instead. Since the number of visitors has risen steadily in recent years and pollution has increased, the city of Lörrach no longer allows the festival in the water protection area. The "Day of the Horse" is a riding show that has been organized by the equestrian club since 1925. It was originally a horse market and took place at different locations in Lörrach. It took place in the Grüttpark until 2013. With several thousand visitors, it has a kind of folk festival character.

Since 1997 the TuS Lörrach-Stetten has organized the "Grüttlauf" in Grüttpark with an 800 meter long course for small children and a ten and five kilometer long main run. The start and finish is the Grüttpark Stadium . Around 500 runners took part in the event in 2019.

Description and usage

Aerial view of the middle part of the park with the rose garden, the Grüttsee and the protective forests of the Tiefenbrunnen. On the far right of the picture the waterworks

The landscape park in the northern part of the Lörrach town center is now used as a local recreation area. In addition to paths for walkers and cyclists , a nature trail with ten stations leads through the complex. A section of the Hebel hiking trail also runs through the Grüttpark ; one station is on the south bank of the artificially created Grüttsee. The partially asphalted and partially graveled network of paths in the park covers more than ten kilometers.

The park is level, with practically no natural or artificial hills. Most of the park is at an altitude of 300  m above sea level. NN , the Grüttsee has a height of 294  m above sea level. NN . Only at the edges do paths lead, sometimes in gentle ramps, to the park area, which is a little lower compared to the urban area.

The 51 hectare park is divided into the following areas:

Lawn and planting areas 42 ha
Bodies of water 2 ha
Paths and squares 5.5 ha
Building areas 1.5 ha

At the eastern edge of the Grüttpark there is an allotment garden with an area of ​​around 8,000 square meters. The parcels are leased to an association. The city ​​is responsible for managing the huts with electricity and water.

Facilities and structures

Source pot

The Grüttbach flows through the park and the Grüttsee . Both bodies of water were artificially created. The Grüttbach rises from an artificial, accessible source trough. The stream flows almost through the entire park from northeast to southwest. Smaller footbridges and bridges cross it. There are four pavilion shelters in the park . A Kneipp facility on the stream was installed in 1982/83 as an accompanying measure for the garden show.

At the western end there is a campsite set up in 1970 with camper parking spaces, tennis and soccer fields. The Grüttpark Stadium , built between 1964 and 1966, is also located there . There is a restaurant near the main entrance to the stadium.

In the southern area there is an adventure playground and St. Peters Church . The rose garden there contains a café . The kindergarten west of the church belongs to the Catholic parish. There is a Waldorf kindergarten near the Grüttpark Stadium (renovation from 2020 to 2022).

There are other small children's playgrounds in the eastern part of the park. With a rope flow for children about 50 meters south of the source pot, you can pull yourself with your own muscle power over the Grüttbach to the opposite bank.

Three power lines run through the Grütt Landscape Park, some of which are part of the supraregional power lines . The tall overhead line masts are in the eastern part of the park above the Wiesental.

Exhibition halls

The largest building complex on the Grüttpark is the sports and leisure center and the exhibition halls on the northeastern edge of the site. In addition to a hotel, there are several sports halls that allow indoor tennis , badminton , squash , football , bowling and skittles , among other things . Outside there are facilities for beach soccer and beach volleyball . The building also houses a Taekwon-Do school and a fitness studio . The Villa Feer, built in 1900, is located on the park grounds to the northwest of the leisure and exhibition center. It was privately owned until 1983 and was converted into a restaurant by the city of Lörrach for the state horticultural show. The house has not been owned by the city since 2005, but still serves as a restaurant. The clubhouse of the Lörrach jazz club with the Jazztone clubhouse is housed in an outbuilding of the villa - the former economic wing . During its 60th anniversary, internationally known jazz artists have performed. The jazz bar was also brought into being in the course of the State Garden Show in 1983.

In 1984, one year after the state horticultural show, the first REGIO fair, at that time with five halls, took place on the exhibition grounds in Grütt. The fair now has three permanent halls, which can be expanded with temporary tent halls if necessary. The REGIO trade fair is the largest trade fair in Lörrach. It has an exhibition area of ​​29,000 square meters and is attended by over 400 exhibitors. The exhibition halls are located in the immediate vicinity of the sports and leisure center. The north adjacent to the halls fairground is outside of trade fairs for circus used -Gastspiele or other outdoor events.

Grüttsee and -bach

Grüttsee 1982: with very sparse bank vegetation

The Grütt's water system is fed, among other things, by the Heilisau springs. The springs at a height of around 340 meters are around 50 meters higher than the park and are fed into the park from the underground streams to the north and then discharged again to the south. The Grüttbach, which flows from north to south and is around 2 kilometers long, emerges from an artificially created spring pot near the exhibition halls.

In the middle of the park is the approximately 12,000 square meter and only a few meters deep Grüttsee. Its lake level is 294  m above sea level. NN height created. Originally, a second, approximately 3100 square meter lake ("model boat lake") was planned for the state horticultural show so as not to disturb the Grüttsee with leisure activities. For ecological reasons, this second flat lake was later dispensed with in the planning. In the Grüttsee, bathing, boating, surfing, fishing, the use of model boats, ice skating and walking on ice surfaces are prohibited in accordance with the environmental protection ordinance.

The Grüttsee reached its maximum level at the beginning of September 1982 after about 27 days of the supply line.

Grüttsee in winter with a view of Rötteln Castle (2010)

Rosarium

View of the rose garden

South of the Grüttsee, on the edge of a low terrace, lies the approximately 1-hectare rose garden , the location of which was determined by the municipal protection ordinance. The rosarium contains around 2500 rose bushes from 170 species and varieties that result in different formations. Around 7500 roses from 30 species were planted on the slope to the lake. Different climbing aids and scaffolding are used for the different rose classes . The main course under a rose arch leads to the Rosengarten café. The bed shapes are square, rectangular and round. In the center of the rose garden is a fountain by the Freiburg artist Bollin. Ten spherical acacias surround the square. From there, star-shaped paths lead to the semicircular beds. The beds, which have a variety of colors and shapes in summer, are separated by green lawns. The rose garden is limited in the direction of residential development with yews , oaks , hornbeams and Japanese ornamental cherries .

flora

Station and information board of the nature trail on the Grüttsee
Bank vegetation of the Grüttsee

The Grütt Landscape Park, which naturally belongs to the Markgräfler Hügelland or the foothills of the Dinkelberg , is characterized by spacious meadows. The lawns and plants make up over 80% of the entire park area. In particular around the Grüttsee and at the source of the Grüttbach, plants line the waters. At the Grüttsee, the water area changes to the land area through reed beds . Native and exotic trees and shrubs form the plant diversity of the plant. Along the way towards the waterworks there are several sequoias (including giant sequoia , primeval sequoia ). There are currently around 60,000 trees and bushes from around 60 species in the Grüttpark - at the state horticultural show there were around 25,000. In addition to the native poplars and alders, there are bitter orange trees , bald cypresses , medlars , snake skin maples and ginkgo trees in the Grütt .

Both the near-natural brook course of the Grüttbach and the woods on the Grüttsee as well as two smaller peripheral areas are mapped as biotopes by the state of Baden-Württemberg on October 20, 1993 , according to Section 30 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG) and Section 33 of the Nature Conservation Act of Baden-Württemberg (NatSchG) there is around 1.32 hectares of protected area. The renatured stream is between three and four meters wide and only paved with stones in a few places. It partly contains small steps and gravel banks. The planted gallery forests , predominantly made of gray alders , are very interspersed with gaps, so that they are not alluvial forests . The following types of plants can be found in biotopes: black alder , gray alder, yellow iris , reed grass , sal willow and common snowball .

The following areas are under special protection in the park:

Biotope no. Biotope Area (ha) Number of partial areas
183123360004 Near-natural brook course Landesgartenschau site 0.5081 10
183113360012 Close-to-nature stream course in the State Garden Show area (west) 0.0859 2
183123360060 Field trees on the Grüttsee 0.2733 1
183123360061 Silting area at the Grüttsee 0.1162 5
183123360062 Field trees on Loerracher Strasse 0.1363 1
183123360063 Field wood "Rainmatten" 0.2017 2

Sculptures and other installations

Sculptures, other works of art and other installations are set up in the park, especially in the eastern part .

  • The sculpture Guardian of Water by Konrad Winzer from 1983 stands at the artificial source of the Grüttbach. On the shore, the 2.50 meter high and 1,200 kilograms of art from Wachau marble to the privileged nature of the element water out. ( Location )
  • The bronze sculpture on a stone plinth Encounter of Forms comes from Herbert Bohnert from Lörrach-Haagen, who created it from 1982 to 1983. ( Location )
Fire tulip tower
  • Four piled-up cubes punched out with stylized tulip motifs form the sculpture Fire Tulip Tower by Max Meinrad Geiger from Inzlingen . The work of art is filled with logs and set on fire twice a year, at the summer and winter solstice . The fire spectacle is often accompanied by music. ( Location )
  • At the eastern edge of the Grüttpark there is a lawn maze with seven walkways along an axis. It was created from May 7th to 29th, 2001 as part of the REGIO girls' project Heartbeat from schoolchildren and supporters in two weeks of collaborative work. With a diameter of 20 meters, it houses a 300-meter-long and 70-centimeter-wide path, which was created by cutting deep spades and which was filled with granite chippings. ( Location )
  • At a central crossroads in the southern part of the park, not far from St. Peter's Church, there is a statue of Francis of Assisi . The stone sculpture by an unknown artist bears the inscription “Praise be to you Lord through all your creatures” - a quote attributed to Francis of Assisi. ( Location )
  • The southern entrance gate to the Grütt Landscape Park, consisting of three parallel wooden frames several meters high, overgrown by plants, was designed by Manfred Morlock from Schallstadt. ( Location )
  • In the middle of the rose garden, in the center of concentric paths, there is a water feature by the artist Jörg Bollin. ( Location )
  • Also in the rose garden, on the edge of the outer semicircular corridor, there are three fountain sculptures made of Carrara marble , designed by Hans-Peter Wernet from Freiburg. ( Location , location , location )
  • On October 10, 1988, a memorial stone was inaugurated in memory of the Lörrach airfield, which was demolished in the mid-1950s, and the plane crash on January 7, 1925 in Grütt. A bronze inscription plaque and a three-bladed propeller are attached to the natural stone . The monument stands near the entrance to the Grüttpark Stadium. ( Location )

  • Keeper of the water

  • Encounter of forms

  • Fountain sculpture at the rosarium

  • Lawn maze

  • Statue of Francis of Assisi

  • Rosarium water feature

Water supply

Lörrach waterworks: the filter building on the left, the operations building in the middle (blue)

The waterworks, built in 1982 on the southern edge of the park, treats around 3.2 million cubic meters of water annually for the city's supply . The water comes together from four deep wells distributed in the park , which pump their water up to a depth of 20 meters. The entire urban area of ​​Lörrach has seven of these deep well systems. This makes the Grütt of central importance for the city's water supply. The Lörrach waterworks with the striking blue facade cladding was initially put into operation on a test basis at the end of 1982 and replaced the hundred-year-old predecessor building on Tumringer Strasse on April 29, 1983, inaugurated by the then Mayor Egon Hugenschmidt , which has since been used for events. The shell of the waterworks, which cost 10.9 million euros, has the purpose of extracting, treating and distributing water in the city. During the time of the state horticultural show, events on the topic of water were held in the waterworks.

Traffic routes

The covered wooden bridge over the meadow and the main road allows access to the park from the north

The Wiesentalbrücke crosses the A 98 in the eastern part of the landscape park . The pillars are surrounded by forest-like planting, especially in the southern section. The areas of the 56 bridge piers have been approved for legal graffiti by the city since the beginning of August 2010 . The 110 paintings several meters high - some are up to 20 meters high - were created by international sprayers and are known as the Bridge Gallery.

To the east of the autobahn is the Weidenpalast gardens and, adjacent to it, the Grütt sports, leisure and exhibition center. In the northeast part of the park runs almost to the Homburg Forest , a wooded ridge that is part of the Dinkelberg . The landscape park is bounded to the northwest by the B 317 , which runs parallel to the meadow in this section . The eastern third of the Grüttpark is separated into two parts by the crossbar between the B317 and the roundabout to Brombacher and Lörracher Straße. The crossbar can be crossed in the north by a narrow bridge parallel to the railway line and in the south by a barrier-free and step-free underpass .

Signposts for the cycle paths in Grütt

An 85 meter long and 2.80 meter wide covered wooden bridge with narrow diagonals made of steel for pedestrians and cyclists over the river Wiese and the main road connects the park with the district of Haagen , built in 1983 and completely replaced at the end of July 2016 for almost one million euros . The timber frame bridge is made of spruce and larch wood.

The 200-kilometer-long Upper Rhine Römer Cycle Path leads northwards from Brombach through the Grüttpark into the city center and from there on over the gap to Binzen . The tourist Dreiland-Radweg also crosses the park, then branches off over the wooden bridge from Brombach and then directly over the gap into the Markgräflerland . Certain sections of the Rheintal-Weg also lead through the Grütt, such as the Dinkelberg variant of the Southern Black Forest Cycle Path. In addition, the inner-city commuter routes also use the network of trails in the Grütt landscape park.

Sports infrastructure

Devices on the exercise course

Along the promenade in the southern part of the Grüttpark there is an exercise course with six stations that was set up in May 2014. The installed equipment should enable beginners and advanced users to do endurance and strength exercises in the open air with the help of exercise boards.

A permanent disc golf course with 18 stations is installed on the green areas of the Grüttpark ; it begins at the rose garden and leads around the Grüttsee. The system was installed in the park in 2014. An annual tournament takes place in March.

Several running routes have been signposted in the park since 2010. The blue marked running lap is 4.5 kilometers long and leads extensively to all parts of the park. The shorter yellow (2.9 kilometers) and red (2.6 kilometers) rounds are limited to the western part of the park. In addition, two smaller loops around the Weidenpalast (800 meters) and around the Grüttsee (550 meters) are offered as loops. All of the routes have no significant gradients.

A pump track system for scooters , BMX and mountain bike riders has been installed in the north-western part of the park at the Grüttpark Stadium . The course is designed for children as well as for young people and adults. There is also a streetball and skate park at the Grüttpark Stadium . The open sports facility also offers opportunities for skateboarding , inline skating or basketball .

Local public transport

Train at the Lörrach-Haagen / Messe stop

Lines 5 and 6 of the Basel S-Bahn run on the Wiesentalbahn through the park area, the Schwarzwaldstraße and Haagen / Messe stations are both within walking distance of different parts of the Grüttpark. (→ Map of the Grütt Landscape Park )

Bus line 7 goes to the north of the city , so that the south entrances to the park can be reached via two stops ( Wintersbuckstraße and Karl-Herbster-Platz ) within a few minutes' walk. Local bus line 10 also goes to the Haagen / Messe stop , which is also connected to a P + R car park .

literature

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 37 ′ 42 "  N , 7 ° 40 ′ 11"  E

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