Luitpoldhain (Nuremberg)

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Luitpoldhain (2017)
Luitpoldhain (2017)

The Luitpoldhain is a 21 hectare district park in Nuremberg .

location

The Luitpoldhain is located in the southeast of Nuremberg, northwest of the Volkspark Dutzendteich and extends between Münchner Strasse, Bayernstrasse and Schultheissallee. The Meistersingerhalle stands on the northern edge . In the south, a footbridge leads over Bayernstraße to the Volksfestplatz. Together with the Volkspark Dutzendteich , the park has a size of 133.6 hectares.

history

The Luitpoldhain as seen from the Memorial to the Fallen (July 2010)
View of the Luitpoldhain with the Hall of Honor, 2011.

Since the 17th century the area of ​​the Luitpoldhains was part of the Dutzendteich area (see Volkspark Dutzendteich ). Nuremberg, an important industrial location, hosted the Bavarian jubilee, state, industrial, commercial and art exhibition in 1906 on the 100th anniversary of membership of Bavaria. For this purpose, a 700,000 m² park landscape was created north of the Dutzendteich and buildings with facades similar to Art Nouveau were built. The northern part of the exhibition area was named "Luitpoldhain" in honor of the then Prince Regent Luitpold. The buildings erected for the exhibition were demolished except for a lighthouse and the machine hall. The machine hall was given the name Luitpoldhalle after it was converted into an event hall .

In 1912, the old zoo with over 800 animals was moved to part of the site of the anniversary exhibition and at the so-called number ponds . In 1939 it moved to its current location on Schmausenbuck.

In 1927 the first party rally of the NSDAP took place in Luitpoldhain . At the second NSDAP party rally in 1929, the Nazis included the memorial for the fallen in their event. This so-called hall of honor was built by the city on the eastern side of the grove to commemorate the more than 9,000 fallen in Nuremberg in the First World War (architect: Fritz Mayer).

After the Nazi takeover of power in 1933, the Reich Party Rally of Victory took place in Luitpoldhain . Compared to the later events, it seemed almost improvised: Hitler spoke in the Luitpoldhain and on the Zeppelinwiese on stands made of wood.

From 1933, the Luitpoldhains park was replaced by a strictly structured parade area, the so-called Luitpoldarena with an area of ​​84,000 m², as part of the planning of the Nazi party rally grounds. A speaker's platform was built across from the Hall of Honor. In the hall of honor itself, the Nazi deaths in the 1923 Hitler coup were primarily commemorated. The direct connection between the grandstand and the hall consisted of a wide granite path.

In this ensemble the marches of the SA and SS took place in front of up to 150,000 spectators during the Nazi party rallies . The central “relic” was the blood flag that was supposedly carried by the Nazis during the Hitler coup. During the consecration of the blood flag, new standards of SA and SS units were "consecrated" by touching the blood flag.

During one of the first air raids on Nuremberg in World War II , on 28./29. August 1942 the Luitpoldhalle destroyed by bombs.

Todays use

After the end of the Second World War, the Luitpoldhain was redesigned into a park. In 1959/60 all buildings from the Nazi era were demolished. The semicircle of the terraces of the grandstands can still be seen.

In 2006, the rock festival Rock im Park was relocated from the Zeppelin Field to the Luitpoldhain due to the upcoming World Cup.

Every year since 2000, the park has hosted the Klassik Open Air , the largest open-air classical music concert in Europe, each with over 100,000 visitors.

There is a mini golf course in the southwest . The large lawns are used as sunbathing areas in summer.

The Luitpoldhain is the largest and most important park in the Südstadt, which is severely undersupplied with green spaces. The city of Nuremberg is planning to build a new concert hall on the small parking lot west of the Meistersingerhalle.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ M. Schieber: Nuremberg, an illustrated history of the city, CHBech, Munich 2000
  2. ^ GW Schramm: The Destruction , in 3 x Nuremberg, Verlag A. Hofmann, Nuremberg 1990, p. 71
  3. ↑ Tina Wenzel: City council unanimously approves new location. Bayerischer Rundfunk, July 26, 2017, accessed on August 22, 2018 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 4.2 "  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 22.5"  E