Maschpark
The Maschpark in Hanover 's Mitte district is a 10 hectare park south of the old town . It was created around 1900 and was the first municipal park in Hanover. The complex has not changed its original shape and is a testimony to German gardening art at the end of the 19th century. In the north, the Maschpark is bounded by the Friedrichswall . Between Maschteich and Friedrichswall, the New Town Hall was completed in 1913 .
location
The triangular park is bordered in the north by Friedrichswall, in the east by Willy-Brandt-Allee and in the west and south by Culemannstrasse and the parallel Leine . In the northern third it houses the New Town Hall with the Trammplatz in front of it , the August Kestner Museum and the municipal building authority. The Sprengel Museum and the Lower Saxony State Museum are within sight . In the south, the park merges into the green landscape of the Leineaue with the Maschsee .
Emergence
The area in which the Maschpark is located today was in earlier centuries the floodplain of the Leine and Ihme . It was outside the medieval fortifications, which were razed around 1780. The area was used as a hay meadow and was called "Altstädter Aue". In 1895 the city's magistrate approved its development. The “New Town Hall” was planned, which was to be integrated into a park area. As early as 1899, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Maschpark took place according to plans by city garden inspector Julius Trip (1857–1907), one of the leading garden artists of his time. The main part of the park was completed in 1902, but it was only finally completed with the inauguration of the New Town Hall in 1913 (construction period 1901–13).
After his death, a stone relief by Georg Herting was set up in the Maschpark for the planner Julius Trip . It depicts gardeners, shepherds, spring nymphs and flora. It is only partially preserved due to the effects of war.
Design and planting
According to the plans of the time, the “New Town Hall” was to be given a splendid horticultural setting, but at the same time the unobstructed view of the flat Masch, in which the Maschsee is located today , should not be blocked. The planting near the building gradually turned into an open landscape park .
The garden areas of the park now have diverse planting, and like in a botanical garden there are flowering plants in almost every season. There are stocks of evergreen species such as rhododendrons or conifers and exotic botanicals such as magnolias , trumpet and tulip trees . Imposing large trees such as American red oak, plane tree and silver maple were planted at prominent points.
A central part of the park is a pond that was flooded in 1900 . The 2.6 hectare Maschteich has a water lily bay and a rocky peninsula. The latter was picturesquely staged with blocks of tuff and is the miniature landscape of an alpine region .
Sister City Park
For the residents of the inner and southern part of the city, the Maschpark represents a green area close to their homes. In 1985, the City of Hanover declared it a “Park of the Twin Cities”. Since then, paths have borne the names of the partner cities, such as Blantyre , Bristol , Hiroshima , Leipzig , Perpignan , Posen and Rouen .
literature
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The Maschpark . Text: Henrike Schwarz. Hanover: Department of Environment and Urban Greenery 2000. (Free brochure from the Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Langensalzastr. 17, 30169 Hanover)
- or online as a PDF document
- Verena and Volker Stahnke (text): Maschteich and Maschpark. In Silke Beck, Susanne Wildermann, Birgit Roos, Burkhard Wetekam (Red.): 12 green treasures. Discovery tours for children in the city and region of Hanover , for children between 5 and 12 years, publisher: Wissenschaftsladen Hanover eV in cooperation with the state capital Hanover and the Hanover region, Hanover: Transfer-Medien, 2013, ISBN 978-398-14315-5 -1 ; Table of contents and publisher's announcement ( Memento of May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), pp. 26–35
- Rainer Schomann (Ed.), Urs Boeck : Maschpark in Hanover in: Historical gardens in Lower Saxony, catalog for the state exhibition, opening on June 9, 2000 in the foyer of the Lower Saxony state parliament in Hanover . Hannover, 2000, pp. 194-195.
Web links
- Maschpark on hannover.de
- Description, pictures and map on the private website hannoverpark.de
- Interactive 360 ° panorama photo of the Maschpark and the surrounding area
- Photos from the Maschpark at the Photo Archive Photo Marburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 56 ″ N , 9 ° 44 ′ 19 ″ E