City park lake
| City park lake | ||
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| Boat launch on the west bank | ||
| Geographical location | Hamburg-Winterhude | |
| Drain | Connection to the Goldbek Canal | |
| Islands | Love island | |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 35 '35 " N , 10 ° 1' 32" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 3 m above sea level NHN | |
| surface | 8.27 hectares | |
| length | 380 m | |
| width | 340 m | |
The Stadtparksee in Hamburg - Winterhude is the largest body of water in the Hamburg Stadtpark . It was created together with this in the years 1910 to 1914 to compensate for other, meanwhile built-up green areas and should offer areas for sport and recreation. Senior building director Fritz Schumacher (1869–1947) called it “Great Lake”.
structure
The lake consists of two parts, which are now separated from each other by a sheet pile wall . The main part is an oval, stretching from north-north-east to south-south-west with a length of 380 meters, a width of 210 meters and an area of 6.77 hectares. At the southern end lies the Love Island, 95 meters long, 30 meters wide and 0.23 hectares in size. There is a connection to the Goldbek Canal, only 60 meters away . In the course of the construction of the city park, this was extended from the Moorfuhrtweg in Winterhude to the Barmbeker stub canal , so that excursion traffic with Alster steamers to the city park lake and the “ Stadthalle ” restaurant was possible. On the long eastern side of the lake there is a rectangular pool about 130 meters wide and 1.5 hectares in area, which is now used as the “Stadtparksee natural pool”.
The water surface is 3 m above sea level. NHN and around 4 meters below the level of the adjacent parts of the city park. Therefore, there are high embankments on all sides of the lake.
Historical change
The Stadtparksee used to have a different bank design. The basin, which is used as a natural swimming pool, was originally connected to the main part of the lake and served as a port for the “town hall”, the main restaurant for large events with space for up to 14,000 people. The shell of the three-part hall with two arcade wings and music pavilions was built between 1912 and 1916 and completely built in 1924. Its facades were designed by Richard Kuöhl (1880–1961). It was the eastern end point of a visual axis over the lake and the festival meadow of the city park to the Hamburg planetarium . In 1936 the port was converted into an open-air swimming pool, the town hall was badly damaged by bombs in July 1943 and finally demolished in 1951/52. The staircases have been preserved.
Opposite the town hall, i.e. on the western bank and in the course of the main visual axis of the town park, there was a cascade , which was clad in red brick according to a design by Fritz Schumacher. Additional ceramics came from Kuöhl. Stairs on both sides led from the festival meadow six meters higher to the lake. There were pergolas on both sides above the cascade . The facility was demolished in 1957 after the slope to the festival meadow had been flattened. In the spring of 2001, a jetty was built at the same location, emphasizing the line of sight again.
Since 1916, the “Stadt (park) café” designed by Schumacher had been on the north bank with its own small harbor, at the entrance to which two centaurs by Georg Wrba (1872–1939) stood. These were later moved to the edge of the outdoor pool facing the lake. The two-story building with a small dome consisted of a large room on the ground floor, which was used as a café with its own pastry shop from 1921, and an apartment for the innkeeper and staff room on the upper floor. It was part of the smaller north-south visual axis of the city park, which leads from the city park lake via a rose garden to an avenue of plane trees. Like the town hall, the café was badly damaged in bombing raids during the war and demolished in the 1950s. Together with the construction of a riverside path at the Stadtparksee and the jetty at the former location of the cascades, a small jetty was built here in 2001.
Love island
The only thing that has not changed is the island of love at the southern end of the lake, which is the end of the north-south visual axis. It is close to the bank and can be reached via a bridge built in 1911, which, with an arched length of 14.5 meters, is the smallest and probably oldest bridge in Hamburg, designed by Schumacher. The island with its trees and a small meadow was supposed to cover the connection to the Goldbek Canal. There is a boat rental shop on the back, and thus not visible from the lake and city park.
Stadtparksee natural pool
The natural pool is separated from the Stadtparksee by a sheet pile wall and has an area of 1.5 hectares. It has a non-swimmer area and sunbathing areas. The sheet pile wall was inserted in the winter of 1936/1937. The bath was created to replace the Alsterbadeanstalt Schwanenwik.
Boat launch on the west bank at the site of the former cascade
Jetty on the north bank at the location of the Stadtparkcafé
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Digital Atlas North
- ↑ History and photos of the lake on hamburg-stadtpark.de
- ^ A b Sven Bardua: Bridge metropolis Hamburg. Architecture - Technology - History up to 1945. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich and Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7 , pp. 76–79
- ↑ History and photos of the town hall on hamburg-stadtpark.de
- ↑ History and photos of the cascades on hamburg-stadtpark.de
- ↑ History and photos of the Stadtcafé at hamburg-stadtpark.de
- ↑ History and photos of the island of love on hamburg-stadtpark.de
- ↑ Dagmar Gehm: Search for relics of the world war. In: Hamburger Wochenblatt, October 2, 2019, p. 1.
- ↑ Christina Busse: A temporary solution also defies Corona. In: Hamburger Wochenblatt, August 12, 2020, p. 7.
Web links
- Display boards of the Stadtparkverein with additional information and historical photos