Staudengrund at the Maschsee

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Staudengrund at the Maschsee

The Staudengrund at the Maschsee in Hanover is a public park on the south bank of the Maschsee . The facility is located directly on the Julius-Trip-Ring , which leads around the city center and is designed as a cycling and walking path , which in turn is connected to the Green Ring . The green area of the perennial base, which is partly shaded by large trees and whose architectural reference point is the Maschsee spring , is adorned with beds with numerous types of tall perennials and grasses that are reminiscent of the older perennial base planted here.

history

Around the time the Maschsee was created in the mid-1930s, the perennial ground was used as a free, sunlit perennial garden. After the end of the Second World War , however, maintenance of the facility was suspended for several decades. It was not until 1997 to 1998, in the run-up to the EXPO 2000 world exhibition , that the Lower Saxony state capital had the elongated green area along the banks of the Maschsee, now surrounded by tall trees, again designed as a well-tended park.

Stone sculpture on a lawn in the shrub bottom

The ornamental plants that bloomed at different times were planted at the beginning of the 21st century according to plans by the Dutch landscape gardener Piet Oudolf . In addition, the sculptor Wilfried Behre provided the lawn of the park with sculptures from his group Globales Steinband , which can also be found in other places around the Maschsee as art in public space . The artist from the southern part of the city ​​has been using the perennial ground as an open-air studio since the end of his studies as a master student in 1992 . In the following two decades, innumerable walkers saw the sculptor, who brought here from quarries and worked on blocks weighing up to 14 tons with a hammer and chisel.

Peculiarities of vegetation

The plant's vegetation includes the cyclamen daffodil ( Narcissus cyclamineus ) , which blooms before the beginning of spring and mostly in February : As an early bloomer suitable for naturalization , the slightly bent back petals of the "February Gold" variety with their bright yellow color and long flowering time let the Perennial grounds at the Maschsee appear like a sea of ​​light gold.

From around June onwards, the so-called “ Iranlauch ” ( Allium aflatunense ) , which is up to 80 cm high, is a completely different eye-catcher: The plant from the ornamental onion family forms large, purple-violet, round umbels .

Web links

Commons : Staudengrund am Maschsee  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Silke Beck, Martina Schunke: Maschseequelle , in Silke Beck (Red.): The Julius Trip Ring. Discover green Hanover by bike close to the city! , Leaflet with explanations and a sketched city map section for the cycle path around the city center of Hanover, publisher: Landeshauptstadt Hanover, the Lord Mayor , Department of Environment and Urban Green, Hanover: LHH, 2016; also as a PDF document from hannover.de
  2. ^ Ehrengard Burkhardt: Walk: Maschsee , in this: Hanover. “Sunday walks.” Guide to architecture and art in public space , Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-935590-62-8 , pp. 64–69; here: p. 68
  3. ↑ Sebastian Harfst: Süd / Hanoverian artist / sculptor Wilfried Behre works on the Maschsee in the open air , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from August 25, 2011, last accessed on June 6, 2018
  4. ↑ a b Elke Schwägerl: A sea in yellow - in the perennial ground on the Maschsee , in Silke Beck, Klaus-Dieter Bonk, Claudia Wollkopf (Red.): Spring bloomers in Hanover. Bluestar, Schneeglanz, Krokus & Co. , leaflet, ed. from the state capital Hanover, the Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Green, Hanover: LHH, 2017; also as a PDF document

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 37.2 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 46.7"  E