City Park (Hannover)

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Water basin in the city park

The Hannover City Park (Stadthallengarten) in Hannover is located south of the Hannover Congress Center in the Zoo district . It is bordered by Clausewitzstrasse in the east and Kleefelder Strasse in the south.

history

April 5, 1900: “1. German finish in XX. Century "on the racetrack on the Kleine Bult , organized by the Hannoversche Rennverein and" recorded with Görz - Anschütz'scher Klapp-Camera "

Long before the construction of the town hall, the Kleine Bult area in front of the railway line to Braunschweig was used by the Hanoverian racing club as a race track for public horse races from 1868 .

It was not until shortly before the First World War that the site was designed in 1913 and 1914 under the name “Stadthallengarten” in the manner of a spa facility according to plans by garden director Hermann Kube and coordinated with the city hall architects Paul Bonatz and Friedrich Eugen Scholer . In June 1914 the town hall and the newly laid out garden with a long water basin and light fountain were inaugurated with a music festival.

In 1933 the area was used for the “Annual Show of German Garden Culture”. In the Second World War , the town hall burned down after the air raids on Hanover , the park was destroyed and initially used as garden land after the war.

From April 21st to October 31st, 1951, the first Federal Garden Show took place on the grounds of the town hall . The entire exhibition area was about 21 hectares and thus much smaller than that of the federal garden shows of later years. In 1951 around 1.6 million visitors were counted in Hanover.

Today's facility largely corresponds to its former appearance and is a listed building . Herbaceous beds and rhododendrons as well as the rose garden with around 140 varieties have been preserved. In 1963/64 the large water basin was renovated according to plans by Erwin Laage , the fountain garden was created and the terraces were redesigned. In 1974 a high-rise hotel was built in the entrance area of ​​the city park, which in 1980 was combined with the city hall and exhibition buildings to form the Hanover Congress Center .

A special attraction is the 400 square meter Japanese garden with tea house , a gift from the Japanese metropolis, created in 1996 as part of the city ​​partnership between Hanover and Hiroshima .

Until 2014, the city park was the venue for the annual summer bivouac , a garden festival of the 1st Armored Division .

literature

  • Eva Benz-Rababah : City Park. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 590f.
  • Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : City Park. In: Theodor-Heuss-Platz 1–3. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , pp. 203ff., Here: pp. 204f.
  • Cornelius Scherzer: City Park Hanover , State Capital Hanover, Hanover 1987
  • Kaspar Klaffke, Gesa Klaffke-Lobsien Hanover - City of Gardens. Gardens of a City , 1st edition, Seelze-Velber: Kallmeyer, 2000, ISBN 3-7800-5265-2 , p. 62ff.
    • English edition under the title: Hannover - city of gardens , p. 62ff.
  • State capital Hanover (Ed.): 50 years city park. 1st Federal Garden Show 1951 , Hanover 2001
  • Ludwig Zerull : Art without a roof. Sculptures and objects in the cityscape of Hanover , Hanover: Ed. Libri Artis, Schäfer, 1992, ISBN 3-88746-278-5 , pp. 53, 56
  • Ronald Clark, Angelika Weißmann: City Park Hanover , Green Space Office of the State Capital Hanover, Hanover 2000; on-line
  • Verena and Volker Stahnke (text): City Park Hannover. In Silke Beck, Susanne Wildermann, Birgit Roos, Burkhard Wetekam (Red.): 12 green treasures. Discovery tours for children in the city and region of Hanover , for children between 5 and 12 years, publisher: Wissenschaftsladen Hanover eV in cooperation with the state capital Hanover and the Hanover region, Hanover: Transfer-Medien, 2013, ISBN 978-398-14315-5 -1 ; Table of contents and publisher's announcement ( Memento of May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), pp. 10–17
  • Ronald Clark , Angelika Weißmann, Cornelius Scherzer (text), Klaus-Dieter Bonk, Klaus Helmer, Silke Beck (red.): Brochure , also as a PDF document from hannover.de , ed. from the state capital of Hanover, the Lord Mayor, Green Space Office, in cooperation with the Press and Information Office, Hanover: LHH, 2000
  • Rainer Schomann (Ed.), Urs Boeck : Stadtpark in Hannover In: Historical gardens in Lower Saxony, catalog for the state exhibition, opening on June 9, 2000 in the foyer of the Lower Saxony state parliament in Hanover . Hannover, 2000, pp. 198-199.

Web links

Commons : Stadtpark (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Doris Apell-Kölmel: The city hall of Hanover. A building by Paul Bonatz and Friedrich Eugen Scholer in its architectural and urban history context , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt, 1989
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Grotjahn MA: Hannoverscher Rennverein eV. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 265. See also this map: The Kleine Bult around 1900.
  3. ^ Eva Benz-Rababah: City Park. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 590f.
  4. ^ A b c Ronald Clark, Angelika Weißmann: Stadtpark Hannover , Green Space Office of the State Capital Hannover, Hannover 2000
  5. ↑ Stadtpark Hannover - Landscape Architecture Today , accessed on October 1, 2015

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 26 ″  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 17 ″  E