Bog pasture

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Moor pasture (northern part)

The Moorweide is a public park in the Hamburg district of Rotherbaum , north of the Dammtor train station . Originally it was bordered by Edmund-Siemers-Allee, Moorweidenstraße, Mittelweg , Neue Rabenstraße and the Alsterglacis. The part west of the Rothenbaumchaussee has been built on with the main building of the university since 1919 and is no longer officially counted as a moor pasture in the narrower sense. The remaining main part between Rothenbaumchaussee and Mittelweg is also known as the Große Moorweide , the strip between Mittelweg and Neuer Rabenstraße as the Kleine Moorweide . Today's park is around 4.3 hectares in size and is listed as an “important garden monument” in the Hamburg list of monuments.

history

Bronze by Henry Moore Reclining Figure - Hand (1979)

The area in front of the Dammtor was originally used as pasture for cattle, later it served as a glacis in front of the city ​​fortifications and as a parade ground for the civilian military . When the city was expanded in the 19th century, the square was deliberately left free in consideration of the villa residents in the adjacent Rotherbaum.

In 1881 an exhibition hall was built on the western part of the Moorweide and opened on September 14th. The cruciform glass and iron construction with a 46 meter high dome came from Gustave Eiffel's studio and was first used at the Paris World Exhibition in 1878 . The hall was used for major events such as the Singers Association Festival in 1882 or the First General German War Festival in 1883, but burned down almost completely in 1885 and was finally demolished in 1889. In 1911, the “Lecture Building ” donated to the city by Edmund Siemers was opened at the same location and has served as the main building of the University of Hamburg since 1919 .

Memorial for Jewish deportees on the moor pasture

The Moorweide has been a popular venue for political rallies and demonstrations since the end of the 19th century. The NSDAP also used the place early for major events and marches. After the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, one of the first Zombeck round bunkers in the city was built on the Moorweide near the Dammtor train station . From 1941 the western park and the surrounding areas were the assembly point for deportations of Jews for extermination ( Holocaust ). In memory of the victims of the Nazi regime, the former north-western tip of the Moorweide in front of the lodge house is now called the Square of the Jewish Deportees .

On February 1, 1966, a complaint corner for lay speakers was set up on the moor pasture under the chestnut trees parallel to Theodor-Heuss-Platz, modeled on the London Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park . At peak times, up to 2,000 listeners came together here. At the suggestion of visitors, the city set up seating and a platform. The Meckerecke but found over time less and less attention and was abandoned after nine months.

The bog pasture is used today for leisure activities and various activities. It is a local recreation area and competes with the nearby ramparts .

Parts of the areas belonging to the City of Hamburg can be used commercially and culturally. Among other things, the art project Luna Luna was installed there in 1987 and, in the summer of 2003, parts of the Terracotta Army of the Emperor of China were shown in an exhibition true to the original.

It is also one of the starting points for hot air balloon rides in Hamburg and the surrounding area.

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Web links

Commons : Moorweide (Hamburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Goecke: City parks in the industrial age: the example of Hamburg. Patzer, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-87617-060-5 , p. 180.
  2. ↑ Great bog pasture. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ List of monuments. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  4. ^ Ernst Christian Schütt : Die Chronik Hamburgs, Chronik Verlag, Dortmund 1991, p. 295.
  5. ↑ The Hamburger Morgenpost about the moaning corner on the Moorweide (online)
  6. ↑ dkn / ivm: The Terracotta Army guests in Hamburg . In: THE WORLD . August 11, 2003 ( welt.de [accessed June 27, 2020]).

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 47 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 34"  E