Lohsepark

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Plan and information board
Hanover station

The Lohsepark is the largest park in the Hafencity Hamburg in the sub-district Am Lohsepark . It stretches from Baakenhafen in the south to Ericusgraben in the north and is named after Hermann Lohse (1815-1893).

The park

  • Lohseplatz in Lohsepark

  • North view

  • Before the transformation, several commercial enterprises were housed at the location of the park (here 2012)

function

The Hannoversche Bahnhof was on its premises . The Lohsepark is a local recreation park thanks to its combination of walking, resting and play areas. He is also memorial for his memorials to the deportation of Jews , Sinti and Roma in the era of National Socialism between 1940 and 1945. They were made in ghettos and from Hanover Station extermination camps accommodated.

architecture

The design for the park was made by Vogt Landschaftarchitekten in Zurich in 2010. The park is tubular. Characteristic are curved and diagonal paths, benches and playgrounds in a 550 meter long and 100 meter wide lawn and meadow landscape with visual axes. The curved trunks and branches of robinia that had to be felled in Versmannstrasse were installed as climbing frames. On the 4.4 hectare area there are 500 trees from 20 tree species, including domestic (linden, oak, cherry and apple trees) and exotic (Japanese pagoda tree, gingerbread tree). The park closes off in the south with a staircase to the Baakenhafen directly at the HafenCity University Hamburg . This used to be the end of the inner wall ring towards the Elbe.

Memorial places and memorials

  • Monument plaque Lohsepark / Hannoverscher Bahnhof

  • “Denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof” in Lohsepark: “Fuge”, historic track from the forecourt of the station to the platform

Platform 2

In the northern part of the park, the former forecourt of the Hanover train station was designed into a 1000 square meter square. From there, the "Fuge", a route marked with railway gravel and left to the wild, leads along the historic track in a south-east direction to the listed relic of platform 2. From this platform between 1940 and 1945, 8071 Jews, Sinti and Roma were transported in 20 transport trains deported. On May 20, 1940, the first train transported more than 900 Sinti and Roma to the Belzec labor camp near Lublin. The last train left on February 14, 1945. More than 1,000 “political opponents” were also deported to Penal Division 999 . Memorial plaques with the names of the 7741 known deportees indicate their fate. On the west side of Lohseplatz, a documentation center “denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof” will be set up on the ground floor of an office and hotel building on around 800 square meters. It documents the fate of the citizens deported from Hamburg and Northern Germany and integrates the documentation “Sent to death”. An information pavilion on the forecourt of the former Hanover train station has been providing information since the end of 2013 until the information and documentation center was opened.

Murdered

Stumbling block for Heinrich Wohlwill

Survivors

  • Lucille Eichengreen : Deported on October 25, 1941 to the Litzmannstadt ghetto (Lodz), several concentration camps, liberated by the British on April 15, 1945.

Public transport

From the south, the park is connected to the HafenCity University underground station on the U4 line. The northern part is accessed peripherally by the stations Meßberg (footpath over Wandrahmsteg) and Steinstraße (footpath over Oberbaumbrücke) of the U1 line .

Web links

Commons : Lohsepark  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A new park for everyone. In: CJ Projektmanagement Hamburg GmbH (Ed.): HSH Nordbank Run 2016 in HafenCity, pp. 14–15.
  2. ↑ Oliver Schirg: A green heart for HafenCity. In: Hamburger Abendblatt of July 8, 2016, p. 11.
  3. ^ Memorial for deported Jews, Roma and Sinti. In: Lübecker Nachrichten of May 11, 2017, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Insa Gall: Memory of 8000 deported people. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 18, 2020, p. 11.
  5. ↑ Memorial to victims of National Socialism will be inaugurated on May 10th. In: Hamburger Abendblatt from April 19, 2017, p. 16. Author abbreviation (MG)
  6. ↑ Hamburg Cultural Authority: Program. Inauguration of the denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof memorial site, 10 to 16 May 2017. Leaflet 2017.
  7. ^ HafenCity Hamburg: denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof. Let history speak. Info card from around 2017.
  8. ↑ Remembering the deportees from Hamburg 1940 to 1945
  9. ↑ Information pavilion denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof. Leaflet from around 2017.
  10. ^ Memorial for deported Jews, Roma and Sinti. In: Lübecker Nachrichten of May 11, 2017, p. 6.
  11. ↑ Insa Gall: Memory of 8000 deported people. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 18, 2020, p. 11.
  12. ↑ New subway U4: hamburg.de: It starts in winter! ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburg.de

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 32.1 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 18.5 ″  E