Sand Gate Park

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Sand Gate Park
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Park in Hamburg
Sand Gate Park
Sand Gate Park with the elliptical tower of the Coffee Plaza
Basic data
place Hamburg
District Hamburg-HafenCity
Created 2011
Surrounding streets Great Grasbrook, Coffee Plaza
Buildings Coffee Plaza elliptical tower
Technical specifications
Parking area 6,000 sqm

The Sandtorpark is a small park in the Am Sandtorpark / Grasbrook district in the HafenCity district in the Hamburg-Mitte district . Today's park area was part of the eponymous Sandtorhafen until the 1960s. The Sandtorpark is the first newly created park in HafenCity and was officially opened in April 2011. With an area of ​​around 6000 square meters , it is the smallest park in HafenCity, framed by the new buildings of the surrounding companies , the Katharinenschule and the adjoining daycare center . The architectural landmark is the 13-story elliptical tower right by the park. The architects EMBT Arquitectes Associats from Barcelona were responsible for the design of the park.

history

The eponymous Sand Gate around 1850

The name of the Sandtorpark is reminiscent of a former Hamburg city gate that connected Hamburg's old town with the offshore Elbe island Grasbrook . From 1866 the Sandtorhafen was built here, the first modern harbor basin in which large ocean-going vessels could dock and be unloaded directly without being reloaded onto barges beforehand. The harbor basin was around 500 meters longer than it is today and connected to Brooktorhafen, which is adjacent to the east, via a lock .

In the 1960s, part of the basin was backfilled from the east in order to build a roll-on-roll-off system on the land obtained in this way . In the 1980s, a coffee warehouse was located here and built two large warehouses and a double silo for green coffee . The coffee warehouse was moved to another location , the silo and warehouses were demolished and the new development of the quarter began. The coffee warehouse NHL Hinsch & Cons. GmbH & Co. (Kala) is part of the Neumann-Kaffee-Gruppe , which erected its Hamburg administration building with the associated coffee competence center in the form of the Coffee-Plaza and thus returned to its old location in 2010.

The Sandtorpark, in turn, gave its name to the northern part of the Am Sandtorpark / Grasbrook district that was created between 2003 and 2018 . The quarter is the second fully developed and completed project in the overall HafenCity project, which consists of a total of ten quarters.

location

The area used to be a harbor basin, today the Magellan Terraces are located there and behind it is the Sandtorpark.

The Sandtorpark is located between the Großer Grasbrook street opposite the Magellan Terraces in the west and the Coffee Plaza in the east, the new buildings of the America Center Hamburg eV and the Skai project with a striking copper facade in the north and the Katharinenschule in the south. The most eye-catching building is the round, 13-storey elliptical tower, part of the Coffee Plaza and with a restaurant on the ground floor directly on the park. There are only footpaths around the park ; the only road is Großer Grasbrook in the west between Sandtorpark and the Magellan Terraces.

layout

The Magellan Terraces, which were opened in 2005, like the park, were designed by the architects EMBT Arquitectes Associats from Barcelona and are the link between the Sandtorpark and the remaining harbor basin of the Sandtorhafen, which is now the traditional and museum harbor . The park and the terraces are located on the former water area of the harbor basin; In the design, great value was therefore placed on the maritime relationship to the harbor basin. The design of the park adapts to the Magellan Terraces and continues in the park. In a hilly lawn landscape, the shape of which is somewhat reminiscent of waves, stone seats were placed, some with wooden surfaces , as they were also used for the terraces. The benches are arranged symmetrically on different levels and the walkways around the park are also adapted to the Magellan Terraces. There are some steps on the lawns so as not to slip on the hills in wet weather, with some trees in between . There is no playground , the park is designed more for sitting, walking and lying down. There are two sandboxes in the shape of wooden boats for children . From the west end of the park you have a direct view of the Magellan Terraces, on which events take place on certain days in summer , and of the Sandtorhafen, which today functions as the traditional ship port of the Hamburg Maritime Foundation . To the east, the Sandtorpark is bordered by the Coffee Plaza , here is the Neumann Group's administrative center with the elliptical tower and two other buildings that are used by various companies in the coffee trade. The five-meter-high sculpture of a coffee bean is located on the sidewalk directly by the park , it was created by the Austrian sculptor Lotte Ranft and donated by the Neumann Coffee Group and is a monument to coffee - one of the most important merchandise in the Speicherstadt .

  • History about the park on the board, behind it the new buildings on the north side

  • Architectural landmark of the Sand Gate Park

  • Young trees in a hilly landscape

  • Boat-shaped sandboxes and steps on the lawn

  • Path and seat at the same time

  • Lotte Ranft's bronze "Big Coffee Bean" tells the story of coffee

Local public transport

  • A short walk from überseequartier away
  • Bus route 111, get off at Magellan-Terrassen

Others

Dogs are not allowed in Sandtorpark, nor is barbecuing. Public toilets are located on the pontoon facility in Sandtorhafen.

Web links

Commons : Sandtorpark  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ HafenCity Hamburg - A park for everyone. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Sand Gate Park. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b In Hamburg - demolition. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ SANDTORHAFEN HAMBURG. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ On the trail of coffee in Hamburg - Hamburg Marketing. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Lotte Ranft - Salzburgwiki. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 33.1 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 39 ″  E