Small zoo
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| View of the Heilandskirche in the western part | ||
| Basic data | ||
| place | Berlin | |
| District | Moabit | |
| Created | from 1655 | |
| Newly designed | 1833-1849, 1876, 1878-1879, 1953-1955, 1959-1960, 2011-2016 |
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Turmstrasse , Alt-Moabit , Wilsnacker Strasse, Stromstrasse, Thusnelda-Allee, Ottostrasse |
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| Buildings | "Sunken garden" with fountain and flower beds | |
| use | ||
| User groups | Leisure time , children, foot traffic | |
| Park design | Peter Joseph Lenné , Gustav Meyer , Wilhelm Alverdes , Hans Nimmann, Latz + Partner | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Parking area | approx. 7 ha | |
| building-costs | Remodeling approx. 7.8 million euros | |
52 ° 31 '33.4 " N , 13 ° 20' 29.7" E
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The Kleine Tiergarten is a park in the Berlin district of Moabit in the Mitte district .
location
The park belonging to the district Moabit is seven hectares in size. It is framed by Turmstrasse in the north, Alt-Moabit street in the south, Heilandskirche in the west and Wilsnacker Strasse in the east. Stromstraße cuts through the small zoo roughly in the middle. Also in the middle, the route of the U9 underground line crosses under the park area, to which an exit of the Turmstraße underground station also leads. The Ottopark , which stretches between Thusnelda-Allee and Ottostraße, is part of the Kleiner Tiergarten .
history
The area of today's park originally belonged to the Jungfernheide estate . Elector Friedrich Wilhelm took it over as a counterpart to the Great Tiergarten when Berlin continued to grow in the course of its expansion into a residential city and parts of the former hunting grounds were sacrificed. Since 1655 the park was called Hinterer or Kleiner Tiergarten . In 1790 the area was replanted and redesigned from 1835 in the course of the construction of the St. John's Church designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel , the cemetery area of which is part of the park.
After the city of Berlin took over the administration of the area in 1876, the landscape architect and horticultural director Johann Heinrich Gustav Meyer redesigned the area with benches, lanterns and a fountain. Another church was built between 1892 and 1894, the Heilandskirche by Friedrich Schulze on Thusnelda-Allee, which also cuts through the area .
The Ottopark to the west was created in 1879 by horticultural director Hermann Mächtig . Previously there was a tree nursery on this site. In 1867 it was named Ottoplatz in connection with the adjacent Ottostraße. In 1934 it was named Norkusplatz after Herbert Norkus , a supporter of National Socialism. In 1947 it was renamed back to Ottoplatz. However, nothing of the garden was preserved after the renovation in the 1960s.
In the Second World War badly damaged, the plant was in 1960 by the landscape architect William Alverdes redesigned. Alverdes included today's Ottopark in the planning and also designed a children's playground there.
Reconstruction and renewal
As part of the federal-state funding program Active City Centers , the renovation and redesign of the Kleiner Tiergarten / Otto Park has been a focus of action in the Turmstrasse funding area since 2009. From 2011 to May 2016 the small zoo / Ottopark was redesigned. To this end, the Berlin Senate announced a Europe-wide competition which was won by the Latz & Partner office from Bavaria and which was implemented in several stages. Before the start of the multi-year construction work, a public participation took place, in which ideas and ideas for the renovation and redesign of the Kleiner Tiergarten and Otto Park were extensively discussed. The aim should be to expand or adapt the usage offers to today's needs of the population and to enable peaceful and fear-free coexistence between the different social groups. The garden monument created by Wilhelm Alverdes should also be protected.
In the east of the park there is an extended play area (including table tennis tables, sandboxes, swings, slides, climbing opportunities and a “roller night”) for children.
criticism
According to the citizens' initiative “Silberahorn Plus”, the redesign of the parks by no means resulted in a “park for everyone” as promised. It had been degraded to the green along the road and only a “sad remnant” of the “beautiful, ingenious” park of Willy Alverdes. By removing the dense wall planting on the busy streets of Alt-Moabit and Turmstrasse, there would no longer be adequate protection from traffic. 58 trees were felled, including many large healthy trees as well as valuable hedges and shrubs.
The 17 so-called seat pebbles made of concrete are perceived as a disfigurement that cost around 460,000 euros and is unsuitable for sitting.
According to the Black Book of the Association of Taxpayers , the costs rose from the estimated 4.6 million euros in 2010 to around 7.8 million euros. The taxpayers' association is not convinced that the reasons given for this cost explosion should not have been foreseeable beforehand in the district . Rather, the reason could be that the measure is financed from the urban development program “Active Centers”, two thirds from state funds and one third from federal funds and not from the district budget.
Crime focus
Since autumn 2015, drug trafficking, theft and violence have increased in the park. In the period from January to the end of May 2016, the police registered 199 brutality offenses, compared to only 61 cases in the same period in 2015. According to the police, in August 2016 the vast majority of drug traffickers were asylum seekers from Africa. With the increasing number of refugees who were registered in the opposite State Office for Health and Social Affairs Berlin from autumn 2015 , so did the number of brutal crimes. In 2018 the park was no longer listed as a crime-prone place .
On August 23, 2019, the Georgian Selimchan Changoshvili was murdered in the Kleiner Tiergarten . The perpetrator was caught. In December 2019, however, the Federal Republic of Germany expelled two secret service employees from the Russian Embassy in Berlin in connection with the country's investigations.
- Picture gallery
Park restaurant on Stromstrasse
Seat pebbles
View to Stromstrasse
Memorial stone tree of the year with rain cover
Putti group from 1910
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literature
- Folkwin Wendland: Berlin's gardens and parks from the founding of the city to the end of the nineteenth century. Propylaeen, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-549-06645-7 , pp. 153-156.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Article at luise-berlin.de
- Press release from the district office in the center of the Kleiner Tiergarten / Ottopark - a park for all residents of Moabit!
- Latz und Partner Kleiner Tiergarten / Ottopark. Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment Funding programs and strategies for lively neighborhoods
- ↑ turmstrasse.de Kleiner Tiergarten / Ottopark
- ↑ moabitonline Kleiner Tiergarten Ost - early public participation
- ^ Black Book - Public Waste 2015, Berlin
- ^ Andreas Kopietz: Berlin-Moabit: Kleiner Tiergarten is the new focus of crime. In: Berliner Zeitung . July 18, 2016, accessed August 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Press release BA Mitte Information event on the security situation in the small zoo
- ↑ Andreas Kopietz: "Crime-laden places": The dealers are moving. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 11, 2018, accessed October 30, 2019 .
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Georgian shot dead - was it a contract murder? Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Maik Baumgärtner, Alexander Sarovic: Murder in the Small Tiergarten: Trace to Moscow . In: Spiegel Online . October 4, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 26, 2019]).
- ↑ Murder in the Kleiner Tiergarten: Germany track shows Russian embassy employees . In: Spiegel Online . December 4, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 26, 2019]).