Quiet Park
| Quiet Park | |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin, Pankow district |
| District | Prenzlauer Berg |
| Created | 2012 |
| Surrounding streets |
Heinrich-Roller-Strasse (northeast) , Prenzlauer Allee (northwest) |
| use | |
| User groups | Foot traffic ; leisure |
| Park design | by the landscape planning office group F |
| Technical specifications | |
| Parking area | 15,900 m² |
| building-costs | 2.3 million euros |
The Leise-Park is a green area in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg in the Pankow district . It was opened to the public on June 1, 2012. The park is located on 15,900 m² of former parts of the St. Marien-St. Nicolai, which the Berlin Senate had acquired from the Evangelical Cemetery Association Berlin Stadtmitte. A part of the tombs and tombstones was preserved during the redesign, but the larger part is taken up by natural play areas and opportunities to relax.
history
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In 2007 the Evangelical Church, as the owner of the old cemetery, which has not been used for burials since 1970, advertised a partial area of 6600 m² for sale. In order to prevent the construction of more houses from condensing the residential development in this part of Prenzlauer Berg even more, citizens from the neighborhood founded the Rollerpark initiative . With public protests and a collection of signatures, they finally got the Senate to buy the site. The residents of the surrounding streets were included in the land use planning and the naming from which finally the new park Quiet Park emerged. The Senate had spent 1.9 million euros on the acquisition of land . The renovation of the park cost the district another 371,000 euros. The result is a green area with play facilities, a barrier-free circular path and sunbathing lawns while preserving the trees and some gravestones. In addition, a nature trail was laid out, 27 trees, around 200 large trees and numerous ground cover, ferns and early bloomers were planted. Thinned poplars along the wall on Heinrich-Roller-Straße were replaced by columnar oaks . Boards at the edges of the path point out the special concept and warn: “Grave sites are not suitable for playing.” A steel mesh fence separates Leise-Park from the rest of the cemetery that is still in use.
The naming goes back to the suggestion of pupils of the elementary school an der Marie located on Christburger Straße . The name Leise-Park is intended to appeal to the behavior of visitors “be quiet”.
In 2013, users in Leise-Park found human bones that had probably been dug up by foxes . The origin has so far remained unclear (as of the end of 2017).
literature
- Marie-Luise Hornborgen: Cemetery today, residential area tomorrow? Case study Berlin on cemetery development in urban planning (= ISR Impulse Online. Volume 57). Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7983-2793-1 , p. 87 f. ( Preview in Google Book Search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ District Office Pankow: Leise-Park in Prenzlauer Berg finished - Ceremonial opening on June 1st, 2012. Press release. In: berlin.de, accessed on July 15, 2016.
- ^ Stefan Strauss: Football between tombstones. The Leise-Park in Prenzlauer Berg used to be a cemetery - which you can still tell from it. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 4, 2012, accessed March 27, 2018.
- ↑ Juliane Wiedemeier: It will be quiet in Leise-Park until May. In: Prenzlauer Berg News. March 6, 2012, accessed March 27, 2018.
- ↑ Rolf Gänsrich: "... brand new benches are in raked openings". In: Prenzlberg views. July 2012, accessed July 15, 2016.
- ↑ Nantke Garrelts: Playground Cemetery: Foxes dig up a skeleton. In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 7, 2013, accessed July 15, 2016.
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '50 " N , 13 ° 25' 15.1" E