Quartierplatz Theresienhöhe

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View in west direction over the Theresienhöhe district square

The neighborhood square Theresienhöhe is the central square of a new residential neighborhood in Munich districts Schwanthalerhöhe and Sendling that after moving the fair to Munich-Riem was built on the former fairgrounds. It is a project of QUIVID ( art-in-building program of the city of Munich) and part of the art project “1a Orte” on the Theresienhöhe .

history

Scots pines in plant tubs on the northern edge of the quarter square

At the end of 2001, thirteen teams were invited to an international art competition in which artists and landscape architects cooperated on an equal footing. The Theresienhöhe district square is the first place in Munich where landscape architects and artists already worked together during the competition phase. The first prize was won on April 13, 2002 by a team made up of the architect Catherine Venart ( Halifax ), the landscape architecture firm Topotek1 ( Berlin ) and the Cologne artist Rosemarie Trockel . The project was presented to the two affected district committees as well as the residents in various public information events . Today's district square Theresienhöhe is a further development of the winning design. The project costs amounted to almost four million euros .

On March 10, 2009, the building committee issued the execution permit so that the landscaping work could begin in May 2009.

Before that, the "railway cover", a reinforced concrete bridge over the railway line from the early 1980s, had to be renovated. This first preparatory construction phase began in April 2008 (cost approx. 5.4 million euros). Since this concrete slab has only a limited load-bearing capacity, it was not possible to plant large amounts of soil or large trees. This was also the reason that mainly lightweight materials were used in the design of the modeled landscape .

The Theresienhöhe district square was opened to the public on June 12, 2010 and has an area of ​​around 16,800 square meters . The Theresienhöhe neighborhood square is on a large concrete slab (50 meters wide, 300 meters long) that is located above part of the former underground car park and the Munich Südring , part of the Munich – Rosenheim railway line .

It thus completes an important part of the design and development of the former exhibition center and builds a bridge to the residential area in the south that has already existed for some time.

layout

View over the quarter square from the west

The district square Theresienhöhe connects the residential quarters on both sides and, through its openness and size, creates a contrast to the density of the adjacent residential buildings.

The concept is a playable landscape sculpture. The theme of the railway lines under the concrete cover became the basis of the design idea: the trains that run under the concrete cover are reflected on the surface in the form of play boxes and correspondingly designed open spaces .

The leisure area was divided into three parts: a sunbathing and play area on up to three meters high lawns, a playable lawn moraine or "dune landscape" (both framed by about 50 cm high orange-colored concrete plinths) and a recreation and exercise area with dark basalt gravel, which surrounds both areas. These surrounding paths and plazas are designed to be barrier-free. In this way, the fairway could be set up as an open, spacious area that is accessible from all sides. In a part of the area on the southeastern edge, the green area is on natural ground, so that 28 large columnar poplars could be planted here. Long benches have also been set up here to linger. At the northern edge of the fairway, where the ground is shallow, a pine grove with five-meter-high Scots pines was created in large planters.

Greened front garden areas were laid out on both long sides towards the adjacent residential development: On the north edge, a one and a half to three meters wide and around 300 meter long green strip was created in the form of raised beds , which were planted with around 8,500 bulbs and 2,000 grasses. Hornbeam hedges form the end of the residential development and the associated outdoor facilities .

The Quartiersplatz is crossed by footpaths at three points in a north-south direction : at Johannes-Timm-Strasse, Fritz-Endres-Strasse and at Max-Hirschberg-Weg, where there is also a cycle path .

use

View over the quarter to the west with the ADAC headquarters under construction in the background (center)

The Theresienhöhe district square is of particular importance as a public open space. Together with the nearby Bavariapark , the old, historic, former trade fair park, the quarter square is an important part of the supply of green and open spaces in the densely populated district.

The green space in the form of a playable "landscape sculpture" was used intensively by children and families in particular shortly after it opened. It offers relaxation and suggestions for games for different age groups.

The “dune landscape” in the western section of the quarter square is laid out as a plastic-coated, multifunctional wave landscape made of tartan with hollows that were filled with sand-colored quartz gravel instead of sand . Three steles on the south side will spray water mist from summer 2010. In the “ dunes ” there are five trampolines and two large rope play equipment with nets stretched between tubular steel frames and supplemented by slides , hammocks and pendulum seats. In the eastern part there are two lawn sculptures .

The city of Munich has relocated a playground for small children to a triangle next to the reinforced concrete bridge on Max-Hirschberg-Weg so that the little ones are not exposed to magnetic stress from the power lines running under the rail cover .

Investigations showed that the legally stipulated limit value for the magnetic flux density of 300 micro-Tesla above the tracks was clearly undercut , but the city did not want to take any risks. This decision was based on a study on the relationship between childhood leukemia and magnetic fields , which showed that there is a relationship to the leukemia rate at a value of over 0.4 micro-tesla. Values ​​between 0.1 and one micro-Tesla were measured directly on the "track cover". Only one meter above the asphalt was the magnetic flux density on average below the 0.4 micro-Tesla limit.

Harald Gabler from the municipal department for health and the environment (RGU) argued to the district committee : "Because small children often play directly on the ground, we have done without the playground here". This was also one of the reasons for the plant's lawns to be raised in order to get a greater distance from the possible source of danger. The environmental doctor Hubert Maiwald (City Health Department) also gave the all-clear from a medical point of view: “Such low values ​​do not lead to any mental disorders in adults.” S-Bahn passengers would be exposed to higher magnetic loads on the train.

See also

Web links

Commons : Quartiersplatz Theresienhöhe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Theresienhöhe rail cover . 2010 in the online exhibition 100 years of landscape architecture by the bdla . Retrieved May 2, 2014.
  2. ↑ https://www.merkur.de/lokales/muenchen/stadt-muenchen/bahndeckel-strahlt-625608.html "The rail cover is beaming" on merkur-online.de, February 10, 2010

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 41 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 29 ″  E