Martin-Luther-Kingpark

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Northern part of the Martin Luther King Park

The Martin-Luther-Kingpark (proper name: Martin Luther Kingpark ) is a park in the Amsterdam-Zuid district in the province of North Holland . The park is close to the Rivierenbuurt on the Amstel River and the President Kennedylaan. The park is divided by the Nieuwe Utrechtsebrug ( German  New Utrechtse Bridge ). It offers many opportunities to relax, to go for a walk and is equipped with numerous seats and loungers.

history

At the end of the 19th century, the municipality of Amsterdam proposed to include parks and green spaces in the city's new expansion plans ( Dutch Uitbreidungsplan ; later: Algemeen Uitbreidungsplan , AUP for short ). The Dutch architect HP Berlage (1856–1934), who was commissioned to do this, included this proposal in his Plan Zuid (German Plan Süd ). At the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s, the municipality had the park created by the unemployed as part of a job creation measure (Dutch work supply project ).

Southern part of the Martin Luther King Park

The park was officially completed and opened in 1936. In 1949 the park was named "Amstelpark". In 1968 the park was named after the American civil rights activist Martin Luther King (1929–1968). The other park, also in Amsterdam South, which was then called Park Zuid and where the Floriade garden and agricultural exhibition took place, was then named Amstelpark .

The De Parade theater festival (also known as Parade for short ) has been held annually in Martin Luther Kingpark since 1990, with around 48 music, dance, theater and around 13 children's performances.

In the first two days of 2012, 17,000 visitors came to the parade in Martin Luther Kingpark .

The traveling theater also gives performances in Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht.

traffic connection

The Amsterdam tram ( Tram, Tramlijn ) No. 25 runs from the Central Station to the President Kennedylaan stop (as of February 2013). There is the Martin Luther Kingpark on the southern side.

literature

  • Vincent van Rossem: Het Algemeen Uitbreidingsplan van Amsterdam, Geschiedenis en ontwerp . NAi Uitgevers, Rotterdam and EFL Stichting, The Hague 1993. ISBN 90-72469-44-5 .

Web links

Commons : Martin-Luther-Kingpark  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Het circus binnenste buiten gekeerd, de Parade - formule , accessed on April 25, 2018 (Dutch)
  2. ^ Author: Hein Janssen . From August 20, 2012 in the Volkskrant newspaper. Dutch, accessed February 1, 2013
  3. ↑ Route of tram 25 . Retrieved February 1, 2013

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 24.7 "  N , 4 ° 54 ′ 34.8"  E