Nibelungen Park
| Nibelungen Park residential area Hagenstrasse |
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| place | Berlin | |
| District | Lichtenberg | |
| Created | 2014-2015 | |
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Hagenstraße (west) , Gotlindestraße (north) , Dietlindestraße (east) |
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| Buildings | Gym | |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , leisure | |
| Park design | Landscape planning office hochC | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Parking area | 10,500 m² | |
| building-costs | 775,000 euros | |
52 ° 31 '2.2 " N , 13 ° 30' 4.8" E
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The Nibelungen Park is a park in Berlin district of Lichtenberg of the same district . It was built in the 2010s on the area of a demolished school building from GDR times. Various suggestions from the residents were taken into account for naming and design.
history
There was an extensive allotment garden on the area of the new green area until the 1960s . As the population in the former urban district of Lichtenberg steadily increased, all the gardens lying here were to land rezoned . At short notice, building cooperatives and the municipal housing company built a completely new residential area, the street names of which were adapted to the previously existing ones and borrowed from the Nibelungen saga. The new residents also brought numerous children with them, for whom a school (the Josef Orlopp Elementary School , today's creativity high school ) was built, followed by a second further north in the late 1970s. This prefabricated teaching building and a gymnasium built for it were built on the north-westernmost side of Hagenstrasse just before the junction with Gotlindestrasse.
After the political change , the number of residents fell sharply, the children were now large and some of them had moved away, and both schools were vacant. A creative facility was found as the new operator for the 1960s building, which also took over the neighboring day-care center . The standard prefabricated building remained unused for a long time and fell into disrepair. So the district office decided to demolish it, which took place in 2011/2012. A sunflower field was installed as an interim solution. Together with the citizens' initiative AG Wohngebietspark , suggestions and ideas for a new use of the free space were collected. The Lichtenberg Environment and Nature Conservation Office commissioned four landscape planning offices to combine the wishes and requirements of the residents in a design draft. For this purpose, the area around the creativity high school in Rüdigerstrasse was divided into a concept area and three ideas areas. The concept area was the park to be designed, the idea areas concerned the forecourt of the grammar school on Rüdigerstraße, the actual schoolyard and a small area on Gotlindestraße, next to the sports hall that had been left standing.
Due to the great interest and commitment of the public, the Lichtenberg district office decided to give the citizens a jury vote in the selection process for the first time. To this end, a presentation event with the four participating offices took place on August 21, 2013, followed by a one-week exhibition in the creativity high school. During this time, anyone interested could vote for one of the designs and submit questions and suggestions. 150 ballot papers came together. After evaluating the jury's votes, the hochC office concept was awarded the contract. It planned a meeting room for neighbors and residents of all generations with a connection to the quarter. Various leisure activities such as a labyrinth, water playground, soccer field, climbing rock and climbing playground are grouped around a central lawn.
During a meeting of the AG Wohngebietspark on September 19, 2013, this concept was discussed again and adapted to the residents' wishes. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in spring 2014 . The first favored name Wohngebietspark Hagenstraße was changed again to Nibelungenpark . (An investor used this name almost at the same time to market his residential construction project between Kriemhildstrasse and Rüdigerstrasse, but then did not push it any further.)
The necessary construction work under the responsibility of the district office took place quickly, and the funding came from the Senate's urban redevelopment project . The solemn inauguration took the District Councilor for Urban Development, Wilfried Nünthel before June 1, 2015.
description
The park includes, among other things:
- A boules court,
- Benches and loungers,
- a toddler's play area with a nest swing , seesaw , climbing pole forest , sandpit and zip line,
- a soccer field for football and basketball and a water playground,
- a maze ,
- a fitness course for all generations,
- a long table for social gatherings,
- a floor trampoline ,
- a graffiti wall,
- a lawn and
- Christa Sammlers sculpture Girl with Apple (second casting).
The core area is surrounded by a 200 m long asphalt circular path.
To underline the name of the park, typical wooden figures from the Nibelungen saga have been erected and draw the attention of those interested to the new local recreational opportunity: Siegfried , dwarf Alberich and the dragon Fafnir .
The healthy trees that have grown over the last few decades have been preserved and incorporated into the park concept.
Web links
- Nibelungen Park at www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de; accessed on March 6, 2018.
- Project Nibelungenpark on the landscape office's homepage.
- Under the sign of the Nibelungen saga. The amusement park in Hagenstrasse . At: berliner-woche.de , June 11, 2015; accessed on March 6, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lichtenberg participatory budget (proposal) , accessed on March 6, 2018.
- ↑ Residential Park Hagenstrasse (enter 'Hagenstrasse' in the search field) at www.politik.bei-uns.de; accessed on March 8, 2018.
- ↑ Representation of a model apartment in the building-related Nibelungen Park (not identical to the real park described here ), accessed on March 6, 2018.
- ↑ Nibelungen Park as a playground, brief information and location, accessed in March 2018.