Lichtenberg City Park
| City park Lichtenberg Parkaue |
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| Pond in the city park near Kielblockstrasse | ||
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| place | Berlin | |
| District | Lichtenberg | |
| Created | 1907-1910 | |
| Newly designed | 1920–1930 and others | |
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Scheffelstrasse, Möllendorffstrasse , Am Stadtpark, Kielblockstrasse |
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| Buildings | Open-air stage, sports facilities, playgrounds | |
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| User groups | Foot traffic ; leisure | |
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| Parking area | 53,000 m² | |
52 ° 31 '6.2 " N , 13 ° 28' 36.4" E
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The Lichtenberg City Park is a 5.3 hectare green area in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg , which was created from 1907 and redesigned several times. It is an amusement park with a small open-air stage, many sports facilities and art objects, a quiet large pond and rare old trees.
Location of the park
The park is located in the center of the old town center of Lichtenberg between Scheffelstrasse in the north, Möllendorffstrasse in the east, the Parkaue in the southeast and a small roundabout in front of the Theater an der Parkaue . The western border forms the route of the ring railway .
The genesis
In 1798 General Wichard von Möllendorff had acquired an area of around three acres in the village of Lichtenberg, on which he had a castle-like country house built and an associated manor park. In a contemporary source the following brief description can be found: “… what a hall and various rooms of Verona are painted in. The owner recently laid out a botanical garden there. ”The botanical garden mentioned here was planted with rare deciduous and coniferous trees, as well as greenhouses, orangeries, sun and pleasure houses. Moellendorff had an obelisk with a relief portrait of Frederick the Great set up in this park . On August 3, 1808, the birthday party in honor of Friedrich Wilhelm III took place in the park . instead, which ultimately became a political rally of leading personalities against the "Corsican yoke", the rule of Napoleon .
A few years after Moellendorff's death in 1816, the army supplier Dotti, after whom the nearby Dottistraße is named, acquired the property and other areas in the neighborhood and tried to make profit from sub-areas Factory owners Claudius founded an important oilcloth factory.
The up-and-coming community of Lichtenberg built an appropriate town hall in the neo-Gothic clinker style adjacent to the area of the estate park and in 1907 finally acquired the property for the entire park for 811,700 marks . As a result, the green space , which is also simply referred to as the Parkaue , initially reached right up to the town hall before the municipal road regulation was implemented. Now the community announced a competition to design this facility as a public park, which should also include a restaurant and a grammar school with a principal's residence - the winner was Karl Theodor Fischer from Mainz. Details of his design are not known, however.
By 1910, instead of the former private property, a public park was built in which the interesting and rare trees have been preserved. In 1911, Möllendorff Castle had to give way to the planned school building, a high school for boys . Between 1920 and 1930, the park was redesigned for the first time to meet the requirements of a public recreational area for all strata of the population; the later development on the edge was determined in such a way that there were several easily accessible entrances to the north, east and south of the park. At the eastern entrance, where Kielblockstrasse was built, the administration set up the Fountain Youth with Fish .
After the Second World War , rubble was dumped in some smaller parts of the city park, creating a sizable hill that was given the name Helenenhügel and which was popular for tobogganing in winter. The royal monument probably also disappeared at this time. At the southern entrance to the park, the municipal high school was rededicated, the children's house based on the Soviet model was built from the left wing, and the right wing became a theater, today's theater on the Parkaue .
From 1948, the Lichtenberg city park was rebuilt again: paths were rebuilt, the pond renovated, and some rubble removed. The park was expanded to the north to Scheffelstrasse and to the east to Möllendorffstrasse . An open-air stage, a paddling pool, a small sports stadium named May 1st and today's gardeners' bases were built. Between 1965 and 1968, more sports facilities were built, numerous sculptures were set up along the walking paths, the stadium was renovated and the park and its vegetation were overhauled.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the park remained under the jurisdiction of the newly established district office. This constantly takes care of the maintenance of the system. The pool was initially shut down, but after the beginning of the 21st century it was equipped with a modern spray system and put back into operation; the changing rooms of the stadium were demolished.
Art in the park
- Sea lions : in the 1950s, two sea lions were placed as gargoyles at the paddling pool; since the renovation of the paddling facility in 1968 they have been without a water connection.
- Bear group : Dimensions of the two animals: 110 × 85 × 52 cm / 110 × 87 × 54 cm; Made around 1950 by the Dresden sculptor H. Weiss
- Mother with child : height 163 cm
- Girl : height 161 cm
- In the Berlin address book of 1931, a limestone figure of a girl is listed as a sight in the city park, which was made by the sculptor Josef Thorak in 1928; its whereabouts are not known.
- Another attraction was the fountain with the bronze sculpture jumping billy goat by artist Wille, also from 1928.
- Girl with a ball : height 220 cm, on a low clinker base
- Children's group with musical instruments : height 150 cm, on a 108 cm high granite base; The children wear pioneer clothes with a scarf, typical of GDR times (the girl's guitar was damaged in 2007). This sculpture used to stand on the lawn in front of the building of the pioneer house / theater of friendship . - Before 1990, other similar groups of children are said to have stood in the vicinity, designed on the following topics: flag roll call, study group, conversation with educators - sculptor not known.
Directly at the big pond is a 65 cm pair of artificial stone penguins , also made by Helmut Weiss around 1950.
In addition, the district administration set up a larger children's playground in 1980, which was equipped with five wooden figures by Günter Schumann : Large and small hippopotamus , large and small turtle , crocodile . - In 2008 there were only three figures left here, the turtles have disappeared.
Hans-Peter Goettsche: Sea lions , made of artificial stone similar to granite, 1950
Helmut Weiss : A group of two sandstone bears on the open-air stage, 1950
Walter Sutkowski : Mother with Child or The First Step , bronze 1965
Karl-Günter Möpert : Girls , bronze 1965
Children's group with musical instruments , 1965
Leisure activities in the city park
Walking paths with the various sculptures, a large pond, play and ball playground, sunbathing areas, relaxation areas, sports facilities for mini golf, boccia, volleyball, handball - all of this invites those looking for relaxation. The stadium with lawn playground and running track is used by sports clubs and schools. Local competitions, such as archery competitions in May 2007, are also held here. Barbecue areas are also available. Music events are often held on the small open-air stage, for example at the Fête de la Musique in June 2005 there was rock music, electronic music and cabaret.
literature
- Heimatwoche Lichtenberg 1934, Festschrift from 1940; from the local history museum Lichtenberg.
- F. Wendland: Berlin's gardens and parks from the founding of the city to the end of the 19th century . Propylaeen Verlag, Frankfurt am Main - Berlin - Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-549-06645-7 .
- Sylvia Brösicke-Istok, Gabriela Ivan, Romy Köcher, Hans Schlegel: sculptures, monuments, fountains in Berlin; Lichtenberg ; Catalog 1993, Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein eV, ISBN 3-89542-012-3 .
Web links
- Homepage of the city administration of Berlin with a representation of the largest Berlin parks
- View of part of the city park on a picture postcard from 1962
Individual evidence
- ↑ Postcard Partie im Stadtpark , accessed on May 8, 2020.
- ↑ Entry ticket to the Film-Bühne Park , Parkaue, from 1948 , accessed on May 8, 2020.
- ↑ a b District 17.> Lichtenberg . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1931, III, p. 188.
- ↑ Historical postcard of the theater forecourt with the pioneer monument ( 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.
- ↑ Postcard pioneer group 2 ( 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.
