City park Steglitz

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Stadtpark Steglitz (heavily distorted wide-angle image : left Sedanstrasse, right the main axis with the fountain, in front the fountain pond with the adjoining large city park pond)

The city park Steglitz is around 17 hectares large public park and recreation facility in the Berlin district of Steglitz . The park is a listed building .

location

Bandstand and fountain, April 2013

The park is divided into two sections by Sedanstraße, the main part to the east and a smaller extension part to the west, which mainly serves as a lawn and playground.

The maximum extent of the eastern part is between Albrechtstraße in the north, Stindestraße in the east, Am Eichgarten in the south and Sedanstraße in the west. The main axis with a fountain runs in the eastern part as a connection between Bismarckstrasse in the north and Brückenstrasse in the south, parallel to Sedanstrasse in the west.

The western part is bounded by Goebenstrasse in the north, Sedanstrasse in the east, the (interrupted) Johanna-Stegen-Strasse in the south and Klingsorstrasse in the west.

In the south, on Brückenstraße, the Wever-Promenade joins, which leads beyond Birkbuschstraße as Paul-Schwarz-Promenade along the Teltow Canal to the Bäkepark and on to the Schlosspark Lichterfelde .

history

The landscape park , originally around twelve hectares in size , was laid out between 1912 and 1914. It was created after plans drawn up from 1906 by the municipal gardening inspector Rudolf Korte under the direction of the royal gardening director Fritz Zahn, who himself lived in Steglitz. The then independent rural community of Steglitz bought some private land to build the park as early as 1905, but areas were also used that had been made usable by draining the bakery . The area was once a swampy lowland with old trees. The attractions of the first facility were tennis courts, a low paddling pool and an animal enclosure, which are no longer preserved. 1917 was designed by the Deputy Municipal Garden inspector Georg Kuphaldt one of a hornbeam hedge trimmed rose garden with a water lily pool, which is still present.

In 1924 an orchard meadow on Albrechtstrasse was added to the park , which until then belonged to the Reichstag member Karl Korthaus . In 1929/30 the park was expanded after the expropriation of the area west of Sedanstrasse, which had previously been occupied by allotments.

During the Second World War there was a “makeshift cemetery” in the park (closed in 1946) for the hospital on Albrechtstrasse opposite , which was located in the parish hall of the Markus parish . During the Battle of Berlin , a Wehrmacht tank dug into the park to secure the large intersection to the north (today: Bismarckstrasse / Steglitzer Damm ); in May 1945 the Red Army took the city park with 20 tanks. In 1950 war damage was repaired with funds from emergency programs.

In the years 1956–1957 the park was redesigned. In 1957, a fountain was built on the main axis according to plans by Walther Schmidt , a concert shell was built nearby , which was replaced by the music pavilion in 1990, and the traffic school opened on May 29, 1957. From 1958 to 1968 the park was expanded to its current size of around 17 hectares. In 1969 the restaurant, which was built in the 1950s to replace the historic park restaurant, which was completely destroyed in 1943, burned down and was replaced by a new building in 1970, which is still in use today. Another redesign took place in 1974.

The park has been protected as a garden monument since 1995 . The former sheep farm (built in 1887) on the edge of the park at Albrechtstraße 47a, which is used by the Nature Conservation and Green Space Office of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district (Revier II), is also a listed building .

In the course of the 100th anniversary of the city park in 2014, a small-step renovation began. In 2014 the rose garden was restored according to the historical model and the park got its historical elm avenue back in 2017/18 . From 2018 the banks of the ponds were renovated and some of the ponds were desludged.

Furnishing

Awakening girl by Josef Limburg in the rose garden
Meeting of Hildegard Leest

In the center of the main eastern section is the fountain ( ⊙ ) built according to plans by Walther Schmidt on the main axis , next to it is the music pavilion ( ⊙ ), which is used for concerts in summer. There are several lawns for sunbathing, three playgrounds (one of which is in the western part), a mini golf course , a nature trail and a toboggan slope. In the eastern part of the park there are four ponds, which were laid out between 1906 and 1914, with a size of 600 to 4000 m²: Large city park pond (with two islands) and fountain pond (with duck house) are designed as a double pond and connected to one another Bridge spanned, as well as the small city park pond and the restaurant pond . They were renovated in 1976. In 2018, the desludging and rehabilitation of the ponds began.

The Goebenteich is a 2,000-square-foot, fed by groundwater, natural pond , which lies in a valley in the western part. It is directly by one of the biodiversity enclosed serving natural Staudensaum area, to which the Goebenwiese connects. On the edge of the Goebenwiese a memorial stone ( ⊙ ) reminds of the founding of the Wandervogel movement by Karl Fischer .

The following sculptures are also set up in the park (approximate location):

Memorial stone to Mayor Karl Buhrow and garden inspector Rudolf Korte , near the fountain
Several thorns about 15 cm long on the trunk of a tree
Detail of the thorn-reinforced Gleditschie in the park

A boulder ( ⊙ ) near the fountain commemorates Karl Buhrow (1863–1939), the long-time mayor of the formerly independent rural community of Steglitz, and the garden inspector Korte. In addition, there are numerous trees in other vegetation zones in the park, such as a Gleditschia south of the city park pond.

Others

After meeting a girl who had lost her doll in the park, Franz Kafka , who regularly walked there with Dora Diamant in the early 1920s, is said to have written a now- lost novel that he read to her at meetings in the following months.

literature

  • City park Steglitz . In: Clemens Alexander Wimmer : Parks and Gardens in Berlin and Potsdam . Published by the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environmental Protection, Department III / Garden Monument Preservation. 5th, revised edition. Nicolai, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87584-267-7 , pp. 104-106, 108.
  • Wolfgang Holtz, Christian Simon: The city park district in Steglitz. From the Birkbusch to the park . Edited by Wolfgang Becker-Brüser , Arzneimittelverlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-921687-35-2 .

Web links

Commons : Stadtpark Steglitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Schäfer: Berlin Parks: The Secret of the Lost Doll . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 8, 2012, accessed on April 29, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d Jens-Peter Wilke: A park for the people - 100 years Stadtpark Steglitz . In: The parish council of the Ev. Markus-Kirchengemeinde Berlin-Steglitz (Ed.): Markus-Zeitung , Edition 3, June / July 2014, pp. 6-7 (PDF).
  3. ^ A b Marina Goertz: Green oases in Berlin. Leisure and recreation in parks and gardens. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-87584-764-4 , pp. 103-104.
  4. ↑ a b Fountain in Steglitz City Park . Website of the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection , accessed on April 29, 2019.
  5. ↑ According to historical maps in the Berlin State Archives , the area west of Sedanstraße was designated as a planned extension of the city park in 1929 , and finally as the Steglitz city park in 1930. Retrieved from HistoMapBerlin.de on May 14, 2019.
  6. ↑ 100 years of Steglitz City Park . District Office Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Roads and Green Space Office, Green Space Department, accessed on April 29, 2019.
  7. ↑ Schäferei Albrechtstraße 47a in the Berlin State Monument List, accessed on April 30, 2019.
  8. ↑ Karla Rabe: Stadtpark Steglitz gets the historic Ulmenallee back . In: Berliner Woche , October 7, 2017, accessed on April 29, 2019.
  9. ↑ Karla Rabe: Stadtpark ponds are being renovated . In: Berliner Woche , January 11, 2018, accessed on April 29, 2019.
  10. ↑ Steglitz City Park . Website of the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, accessed on April 29, 2019.
  11. ↑ The uncertain future of the ponds in the city park. ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the CDU local association Nikolassee, accessed on June 5, 2013.
  12. ↑ Not recorded on historical maps in the Landesarchiv Berlin until 1947, mapped as a pond on a map from 1953. Retrieved from HistoMapBerlin.de on May 14, 2019.
  13. ↑ Rose-Maria Stiller: Two seals . ( Memento from September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) bildhauerei-in-berlin.de, accessed on January 21, 2014.
  14. ^ Richard Ohmann: Bacchus . ( Memento from September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) bildhauerei-in-berlin.de, accessed on January 21, 2014.
  15. ^ Josef Limburg: Awakening girl . ( Memento from September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) bildhauerei-in-berlin.de, accessed on January 21, 2014.
  16. ↑ Hildegard Leest: Encounter . ( Memento from September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) bildhauerei-in-berlin.de, accessed on January 21, 2014.
  17. ↑ Buhrowstrasse . In: Kaupert's street guide through Berlin , accessed on April 8, 2019.
  18. ^ Andreas Schäfer: Steglitzer Stadtpark. The secret of the lost doll. In: Tagesspiegel Online. Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH, July 8, 2012, accessed on July 1, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 54.1 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 7.5 ″  E