Mellowpark
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| place | Berlin |
| District | Berlin-Oberschöneweide |
| Created | 2010 |
| Surrounding streets | At the Wuhlheide (north) |
| Buildings | Ramps for fun athletes |
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| User groups | Skateboard riders; BMX riders, beach volleyball players , basketball players |
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| Parking area | 70,000 m² |
The Mellowpark is a sports and leisure area in the Treptow-Köpenick district . It was created on the initiative of the association “all eins e. V. ”as an outdoor skate park in 1999 on the area of a disused cable factory. After the possibility of using this location no longer exists, with the help of the district office and numerous sponsors and initiatives, a move of the now internationally known facility to An der Wuhlheide was organized. Up to the summer of 2012, there was a gradual expansion into “Europe's largest skateboard and BMX park”. The sponsor is the Mellowpark association. A further expansion of the park will begin in 2018, which will turn it into a BMX super park and one of the largest such facilities in Europe.
history
A new kind of leisure activity
Members of the all eins e. V. developed the project for a course for fun sports at the end of the 1990s . In doing so, they won the competition organized by the Berlin Senate to develop the new Berlin into new, creative leisure facilities for young people. They found a suitable area in the grounds of the disused cable reel factory of VEB Kabelwerk Köpenick on Friedrichshagener Strasse near the Allende district and began to set up ramps , small mounds of clay and a BMX course . The area has been owned by TLG Immobilien since the opening of the Wall and was given the name Mellowpark - borrowed from English (mellow = soft, gentle or to mellow = to become more sociable). (A video from 2009 shows the condition of the abandoned factory.)
Beach volleyball fields , a football field and basketball courts were soon added. In 2001 the German Mellowparkjam championship for skaters was held in the Mellowpark . The German BMX Championship German Open , which took place on the course for the first time in 2003 , made the Mellowpark internationally known among this group of athletes. With the third rebeljam , the facility reached its peak of development, with participants from 21 nations at the start. In the years between 2005 and 2008, up to 20,000 visitors (active and spectators) were counted per year. The operator states 40,000 visitors for 2015.
Developable sports area sought and found
At the end of 2008, the Mellowpark was closed at its old location because a residential park was to be built in the neighborhood and the usage contract had expired. After protests and petitions, the search for a suitable new location began. Those involved found what they were looking for in an area already dedicated as a sports area between the street An der Wuhlheide and the Spree. At the beginning of 2010, the new usage contract between the sponsoring association and representatives of TLG Immobilien was signed. Afterwards, the young people in particular prepared the Mellowpark Campus with their first dirt . In the following two years, the ping-pong hall that existed here was converted into a skate hall, the bowl, Rudi's rests ramp (from remnants of the old Mellowpark) and a pump track were added. Beach volleyball and basketball areas were rebuilt on the new campus using the materials from the “old Mellowpark”. The “new Mellowpark”, the recreational facility for skaters and BMX riders, was already being used for competitions during the renovation phase, and in May 2010 the next Highway to Hill took place on the 350 meter long course. In the summer of 2012, most of the sports facilities on the site were completed, and the 2012 Highway to Hill officially opened the sports park. The all eins e. V. organized the festive move of the Mellowpark lantern from the old to the new site. The new sports facility fulfills all activity requirements from laypersons to professional athletes, offers space for visitors and the associated safety standards. In the year it opened, it was considered the largest outdoor skate facility in Europe.
The park from the mid-2010s
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The Mellowpark has been a federal performance center since the 2010s and is politically and financially supported by the Federal Ministry of the Interior , the Berlin-Brandenburger Landessportbund and other sports institutions. According to the aim of the sponsoring association, however, the park should continue to combine sport and youth work. At the beginning of July 2016, the Treptow-Köpenick District Office and the representatives of the operating associations signed a contract for the use of the system until 2035; an option for a further five years is also stipulated. A large hall is to be built on this secure basis, in which sports cyclists and skaters can train or hold competitions regardless of the weather. In addition, practice rooms for musicians, a café and a club will be created there; a commercialization is excluded. The aim of 1. FC Union Berlin to take over the park area for use as a youth performance center is therefore no longer applicable.
At the end of 2016, the newly elected Berlin Senate decided on further activities for the Mellowpark, including the following measures in addition to the above:
- Creation of a new course (a colorful landscape of ramps almost the size of a football field with a six-meter-high craddle - a hemisphere for loops on the bike),
- the construction of a multi-storey car park with a skate park on the roof and
- Construction of a temporary ice rink.
In addition, tree houses , a hostel, camping facilities as well as a theater and concert stage can be built. All ideas come from the young people and operators. The enlarged and sporty Mellowpark should be completed in 2018. The seven-person team of the Mellowpark Association, which maintains its office in a shipping container, where a model of the Superpark is also located, acts as the caretaker. The association was able to collect a large part of the money it needed through crowdfunding , with € 157,000 available for the work. The long-term goal is for the Mellowpark to become a training center for the German national team that wants to take part in the Olympic Games in Tokyo .
Sporting events
2001-2008
| year | Name of the event |
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| 2001 | Mellowpark Jam; Highway to hill; BMX Dirt Contest; BMX Lake Jump Contest |
| 2002 | Highway to hill; Mellowpark Jam; European King of Dirt; Crossroads Streetjam Beach Party @ Mellowpark; Ready to Rock Streetjam; Presentation of futurevisions / Designing of the Project Mellowpark |
| 2003 | Road * Star BMX Jam; Red Bull Local Hero Tour; Highway to hill; Carnival of Cultures Bin Baden - BMX Lake Jump Contest; Mellowpark Jam; European King of Dirt; Crossroads Streetjam German Open - German BMX Championship; Beatheadz |
| 2004 | Road * Star BMX Jam; Highway to hill; B-Berlin Open; Red Bull Local Hero Tour The big eating; Ladiez first; Berlin City Games - Palace of the Republic |
| 2005 | Road * Star BMX Jam; Carnival of the Cultures; Highway to hill; Mellowpark Jam rebeljam - unfiltered bmx; Ladiez first; Globe Skateboard Team @ Mellowpark kidsfestival; Berlin City Games - Dresdener Bahnhof |
| 2006 | Ladiez first; Highway to hill; Carnival of the Cultures; Marshmellow Jam Final Mellowpark Soccer League; Red Bull Local Hero Tour; Three Amigos Skateboard Contest; rebeljam - unfiltered bmx Berlin City Games - Parochialkirche |
| 2007 | Highway to hill; cos cup; kidsfestival; rebeljam; German Open |
| 2008 | Highway to hill; Summerclash; Family meets Mellowpark; German Open |
Since 2010
| year | Name of the event | Remarks |
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| 2010 | Highway to Hill (May) | |
| 2012 | Highway to hill; Mellowpark jam (June); Red Bull R.Evolution@Mellowpark | |
| 13./14. June 2014 | BMW Super Cross World Cup | 200 drivers from 20 international teams competed for World Cup points, and the best were able to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games . |
| 1./2. July 2016 | German Championships Race Time Trial |
Classes pupils, youth, juniors, elite |
| Sep 24 2017 | East Cup Race |
Competition for young athletes, in which approx. 70 BMXers take part |
Location and description
The Mellowpark - in the east of the Oberschöneweide district just before the border with the Köpenick district - is bounded by the An der Wuhlheide road to the north, the Wuhle to the east, the Spree to the south and Spindlersfelder Straße to the west. In the neighborhood is the stadium An der Alten Försterei , the football stadium of 1. FC Union Berlin . The total area of the leisure facility covers more than one hectare . Existing buildings and walls are included in the design; they have often been "pimped up" with graffiti .
Supporters, sponsors and partners
The district's youth welfare office provides more than 75,000 euros annually for the Mellowpark project, from “all eins e. V. ”has meanwhile become the Mellowpark association. In August 2014 , the Berlin Senate awarded the FahrradStadtBerlin Prize for its outstanding youth work . There are also the following supporters:
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b We save the Mellowpark. on a private homepage, accessed on August 24, 2012.
- ↑ Abandoned Places, on youtube.com, playing time 7:42 minutes; Retrieved August 25, 2012.
- ↑ a b History of the Park ( Memento from September 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on mellowpark.de
- ↑ ARCHIVE ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ): rbb news broadcast from August 24, 2012: BMXer an der Wuhlheide ; Retrieved August 25, 2012.
- ↑ a b Elmar Schütze: A secure future for big jumps . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 14, 2016, p. 18.
- ↑ Elmar Schütze: The Mellowpark is saved. , In: Berliner Zeitung , July 15, 2016. Accessed December 9, 2016.
- ↑ Karin Schmidl: Olympic in Köpenick . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 9, 2016, p. 13.
- ↑ a b Peter Kirnich: Fit for Tokyo . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 18, 2017, p. 18 (print edition).
- ↑ Mellowpark event list ( Memento from February 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , brief information from June 6, 2014: Berlin-Seite Köpenick
- ↑ BMX-DM 2016, overview
- ↑ Announcement of the German BMX Championship in Berlin , accessed on July 20, 2016.
- ↑ Picture gallery "Art on the Mellowpark" ( Memento from August 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Senate awards FahrradStadtBerlin Prize . In: Berliner Zeitung of August 15, 2014, page 15.
- ↑ Overview of partners (visible behind the left picture). Status 2010 ( Memento from February 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Website of Felt Bicycles ( Memento from July 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Website of the BEST SABEL Foundation, the field of tourism academy .
- ↑ Cafe HDJK website accessed on August 25, 2012
- ↑ Homepage fat bmx
- ↑ Fine Linesmarketing website ( Memento from December 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Homepage gsub
- ^ Website of the association music media park with information about its goals, u. a. in the implementation of events ; Retrieved August 25, 2012.
- ↑ The training association Praxis-Nah in a company database , accessed on July 20, 2016.
- ^ Website with brief information about the Roof BMX association and its dissolution in 2012 ( Memento from February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved February 7, 2016.
- ↑ "Uncle Sally's" is discontinued . In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 5, 2011; Retrieved August 25, 2012
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 21 ″ N , 13 ° 33 ′ 51 ″ E