Ostpark Frankfurt am Main
The Frankfurt East Park is a park in the Frankfurt district of Ostend . The facility is 32.16 hectares in size, with the 4.2 hectare Ostparkweiher in the middle. The pond was created in a part of a drained oxbow lake of the Main , which was unsuitable for construction because of the high water table. The park is characterized by extensive lawns and its sports facilities . The Ostpark is part of the Frankfurt green belt and after the Volkspark Niddatal the second largest park in Frankfurt.
characterization
The Ostpark was intended for the workers of the then adjacent industry in the area of Hanauer Landstrasse and all residents of the new residential areas planned in eastern Frankfurt, such as the settlement in the Riederwald , the Bornheimer Hang settlement by Ernst May and their ultimately unrealized extension of the Rothenbuschsiedlung in the Riederwald, as a resort serve. For the pupils of the schools especially above the Röderberghang, such as the Dahlmann School and the Brothers Grimm School on Rhönstrasse, the Ostpark was intended as a place for physical education .
The park was created as part of the Osthafen building on the small Riederbruch, a floodplain and oxbow lake of the Main, at the foot of the Buchhang and Röderberg, both of which are steep slopes of the Main oxbow. The flooded area extended to the Seckbacher and Berger slopes of the Berger Ridge . The Ostparkweiher was created in part of the drained river bed . Sports fields were created together with the park .
The spacious park with an old stock of alder trees ( Alnus ), poplars ( Populus ) and willows ( Salix ), its lawns and sports fields is heavily frequented. Two circular walks of different diameters with side paths and benches are also available, as is a kiosk and public toilets . There is access to the park from both Ratsweg and Ostparkstraße. In addition, opened up one after the Civil and Baubeamten Johann Wilhelm Schwedler named Schwedler bridge as a pedestrian bridge over the tracks of the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway the park and from the southern Hanauer Landstrasse .
The shore area of the Ostparkweiher has a rich flora , which provides shelter, breeding ground and food for numerous water bird species . Accordingly, many species of birds such as gray geese ( Anser anser ), Egyptian geese ( Alopochen aegyptiacus ), Canada geese ( Branta canadensis ), coots ( Fulica atra ) and swans (Cygnini) are part of the fauna of the park that can be regularly found . The ducks (Anatidae), which used to be found frequently, have now been largely displaced by the geese. The crucian carp ( Carassius carassius ), a species of carp (Cyprinidae), which is threatened with extinction in Hesse, was released by a fishing club in the pond , which is up to 1.5 meters deep . The park is also populated by numerous wild rabbits ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ), which can also be found in the other parks in the vicinity and in the front gardens of the residents.
The Ostparkweiher is threatened with tipping over ( eutrophication ) , especially in summer , as it has no natural inflow and its supply of nutrients is too high due to overfeeding of the aquatic animals by park visitors.
The 3.76 hectare Bürgergarten was created in 1983 from the former central school garden in Frankfurt. This was no longer needed by the schools at that time. He is a vegetation geography and vegetation ecology landscaped garden with dendrological rarities and acting plantations, an artificially-fed creek and small ponds .
In addition to the hard courts , which are primarily suitable for football , the park also has basketball hoops and a barbecue area .
Various works of art are displayed in the Ostpark . At the edge of the large meadow is the penalty spot designed by FW Bernstein . The sculpture from the series Comic Art in Frankfurt's green belt to the tradition of the park at Hobby - footballers remember.
Events
- On November 9, 1918, the People's Revolutionary Assembly took place in the Ostpark . The painter Erich Grube captured this in a painting that was in the Historisches Museum Frankfurt and that was destroyed in 1944.
- A model boat regatta of the Bornheim Model Club takes place on the Ostparkweiher every year. From May to October the active members of the association are on site with their miniature models on the second Sunday of each month.
history
Before planning the east park
The wooden Röderberg tower on the corner of Röderbergweg and Am Buchwald, which towers over the area of what will later be the park, was replaced by a stone tower in 1880. He stood in the Frankfurt area shortly before the border to Bornheim, which was incorporated in 1877 . It offered a wide view over the field of the Riederhöfe , to Offenbach , to the Odenwald and to the Spessart . At that time the Röderbergweg was an important excursion destination for the Frankfurt population with a few restaurants.
First development phase from 1898 to 1902
The Frankfurt landscape architect Andreas Weber (1832-1902) created the first plans for the initially Ostend Park called Park project. The first drafts were based on the then valid ideas of a park to stroll through in the middle of a planted park landscape. For the parking area, a size of 2/5 of the size actually realized later was initially assumed. In 1899 sports clubs, educators and the tourist association increased the pressure on the city. The establishment of a central school garden was required. In 1900 the projects for Ostendpark and the school garden were merged. Due to the death of Andreas Weber, the original plans could no longer be implemented. These plans probably no longer exist.
Second development phase from 1902 to 1912
Weber's plans were further developed by the new Frankfurt horticultural director Carl Heicke (1862–1938) and at the suggestion of Lord Mayor Franz Adickes (1846–1915). Initially, the design principles of the 19th century still applied. With the collaboration of Willy Rosenthal (1882–1963), new designs were created. The plans for a modern public park prevailed. In 1906, the site for the park, as it still exists today, was determined and the construction costs approved by the Frankfurt City Council. The park was divided into two meadows, which were separated by a pond approx. 150 meters wide (west-east direction), 350 meters long (north-south direction) and 1.50 meters deep. Footpaths, driveways and tree planting were planned. The central school garden was connected.
The concept of this former central school garden of the city of Frankfurt, which was integrated into the Ostpark and created jointly with it, envisaged cultivating illustrative material in the form of herbs and ornamental plants and providing schools with illustrative material for biology and drawing lessons. For this purpose, ponds for aquatic plants were provided, which are supplied with groundwater from a well. The plans were finally implemented in the years 1907 to 1911 according to the plans of the horticultural director Carl Heicke. In 1909, the large playground on the west side was opened on a trial basis. In the winter of 1909/1910, the Ostparkweiher was opened for ice skating for the first time. In 1911, the Ostpark was finally built as the first public park in the city of Frankfurt and opened as the first public park in Germany. The planned park buildings had not yet been started until 1912.
Carl-Heicke-Weg, named after the horticultural director, branches off from Ostparkstraße at the level of the Ostpark and still leads up the Röderberghang.
Third phase of development from 1912 to 1945
From 1920 the large playground was used by up to 800 children every day. Carl Heicke's successor was Max Bromme (1878–1974), who from 1912 to 1914 had the accommodation buildings built at the southern end of the Ostparkweiher with public toilets, changing rooms, storage rooms and a drinks bar. A neoclassical drinking fountain followed from 1925 to 1927 . From 1928 to 1931, a small shelter hall with a drinking fountain was built by the architect Max Cetto (1903–1980) on the north-western bank of the Ostparkweiher . This served to operate a fixed paddling pool for children. In 1934, the accommodation building on the south bank was expanded and the Ostparkkaffee was officially set up after it had been used as a summer café under the chestnut trees on the bank of the pond in the 1920s. The stone tower on the Röderberg slope was demolished in 1936. The idea of rebuilding it within the Lohrpark on the Lohrberg in the Seckbach district was previously rejected. In 1942 the path at the corner of Ratsweg and Ostparkstraße was laid out as a new entrance and a small functional building was added. The accommodation buildings on the south bank were badly damaged in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main during World War II. The paddling area and the shelter hall were badly damaged and the glazing destroyed.
Fourth phase of development from 1946 to 1980
In the years 1946 to 1948 the rail route of the Frankfurter Trümmerexpress ran directly past the Ostpark. The Feldbahn brought rubble from buildings, streets and squares that had been destroyed in the Second World War from the largely destroyed old town and city center to the area on Ratsweg, which was used by Eintracht Frankfurt as a stadium on the Riederwald from 1920 to 1943 . Until 1964/65 there was the rubble mountain of the processing and recycling plant for rubble of the rubble recycling company in the Riederwald district.
Reconstruction began in 1953 in the park itself. The pond was cleared and the paddling area in the northwest restored. The first accommodation building on the south bank of the Ostparkweiher was replaced by a new building in the style of the 1950s. New public toilets, changing rooms and a kiosk were built there. In 1956 a track for scooters was set up in the northern area of the park facing Ratsweg . In 2011, about two thirds of the paths were still preserved. In the meantime a children's playground has been built over part of it. In 1961 a small golf course with 18 holes was built in the east . The Frankfurt Dippemess has been taking place on the former rubble site directly across from the Ostpark since 1968 . From 1971 onwards, open-air concerts were held in the Ostpark . In 1973 a water playground with automatically controlled spray devices was built at the southern end of the large meadow. In 1975 a barbecue area was created on the bastion by the pond. In 1976, a dog park was set up in the north-east of the park and the sports fields were newly laid out on the small meadow. From 1979 an open-air chess , a bowling green , a barbecue area and new children's playgrounds were built. The pond was cleared of silt in 1979/1980. In 1981/1982 the Cetto shelter hall was renovated and the paddling area abandoned.
Current phase from 1980 to today
The Frankfurt ice rink has stood on the site north of the park, which was used as a storage area for rubble after the Second World War, since 1981 . In 1982 the large play and sunbathing area was closed to dogs . In 1983/1984, the main school garden located on the southwestern edge of the park was rededicated to a community garden due to a lack of school demand . Most of the trees are almost unchanged. Chess tables were set up. A shelter hall was built at the sports fields. In 1985, the two islands in the Ostparkweiher were provided with topsoil and consolidated. On September 28, 1985, a competition of 32 hydrogen- filled gas balloons started in the Ostpark. The occasion of the launch was the 200th anniversary of Jean-Pierre Blanchard's first balloon launch on Bornheimer Heide on October 3, 1785. The Ostpark has been a listed building since 1986 . In 1987/1988 the bank of the pond was replanted. The pond was renovated from 1988 to 1990. In 1994 the bank stairs and the wall at the bastion were renovated.
On August 21, 2011, the family festival 100 Years of Ostpark was celebrated with guided tours , exhibitions , sports activities such as tribal dance demonstrations by members of the Bornheim gymnastics community , as well as music and dragon boat trips.
location
The Ostpark is bounded to the north and east by the Ratsweg, to the west by the Ostparkstraße below the Röderberg as a continuation of the Bornheimer slope to the south. The route of the A 661 is on the east side . To the north are the Frankfurt ice rink and the fairground on Ratsweg. In the south, the park borders on the Frankfurt – Hanau railway line and the facilities of the Frankfurt Ost container station , which is located on the site of the Frankfurt / M railway depot , which was dissolved in 1960 . East is located. To the south of it is the Frankfurt Osthafen . The Academy of Visual Arts is located on Ostparkstrasse .
Way of St. James
A branch of the German Way of St. James runs below the Bornheimer slope and through the Ostpark . This is based on the course of the historic long-distance trade route from Leipzig to Frankfurt am Main ( Des Reiches Strasse ). It begins in the episcopal city of Fulda , leads via Schlüchtern , Steinau an der Straße , Bad Soden-Salmünster , Gelnhausen , Langenselbold , Erlensee and Bruchköbel and belongs to the network of the main routes of the Jacob pilgrims in Europe , which lead to Santiago de Compostela . It leads over a total of 116 km past the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche, past the Ostpark, past the new building of the European Central Bank on the site of the former wholesale market hall, on to the banks of the Main in downtown Frankfurt , along the Main to the Eiserner Steg , on the left Mainuferweg in the direction of Mainz and then on to Trier .
Transport links
The Ostpark is connected to the local public transport (ÖPNV) of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund by the lines U7 ( Stadtbahn ), 12 ( tram ) of the Frankfurter Verkehrsgesellschaft VGF and the line 103 of the Offenbacher Verkehrs-Betriebe . The subway stop is the Eissporthalle subway station , the tram stop is called Eissporthalle / Festplatz . From the Saalburgallee / Eissporthalle exit of the underground station , the next entrance to the park can be reached after a five-minute walk downhill.
On the east side of the park is the Frankfurt-Ost exit of the 661 federal motorway . Parking is available on Ostparkstrasse, which during the Dippemess will be partly used as a one-way street in the direction of Ostbahnhof (between Ratsweg and the first residents) in order to enlarge the parking spaces and divert road traffic .
Web links
- Ostpark accessed on Feb. 25, 2020
- Ostparkweiher and the ponds in the Bürgergarten accessed on Feb. 25, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ostparkweiher and the ponds in the Bürgergarten. frankfurt.de, accessed on Feb. 24, 2020
- ↑ Ostparkweiher and the ponds in the Bürgergarten on frankfurt.de, accessed on Feb. 24, 2020
- ↑ lostart.de
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: miniatures in the Ostpark in See, Frankfurter Neue Presse, May 4, 2006
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Model boats anchor in Ostpark, Frankfurter Neue Presse, May 3, 2007
- ^ Dates, Modellbau-Club Bornheim e. V., Frankfurt am Main
- ↑ Chronik des Ostend, frankfurt.de, accessed on Feb. 24, 2020
- ^ Ostpark, frankfurt.de, accessed on Feb. 25, Feb. 25, 2020
- ↑ Ostpark has been a hit for 100 years ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article on fnp.de from August 19, 2011.
- ↑ Rhine-Main pleasure - Jacobsweg . ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund , map of the Jacobsweg from Fulda to Frankfurt; Retrieved July 11, 2011
- ↑ Hiking map Rhine-Main pleasure: The Way of St. James from Fulda to Main . Retrieved July 11, 2011
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '14.1 " N , 8 ° 43' 22.2" E