Sternschanzenpark

Sternschanzenpark in autumn

Park with boules playing areas. In the background the ski jump tower

Café Sternchance in the Norwegerheim

The eponymous Sternschanze at the gates of Hamburg around 1790

Sternschanzenpark entrance from Schlump underground station

Upper league football in the Sternschanzenpark: St. Pauli 2 - Osnabrück 2 on November 5, 2006

Jump tower

The Sternschanzenpark , usually called Schanzenpark , is a roughly twelve-hectare, partially public park with the 60-meter-high Schanzenturm , which was once the largest water tower in Europe and has been a hotel since 2007, on a 28th floor Meter high hill in the district of Hamburg-Altona .

The park

history

The Sternschanzenpark was an upstream part of the Hamburg city fortifications until 1866. As Sternschanze preferred defensive were designated in the form of multi-pointed stars outside the city walls. In that year the Altona-Kieler Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft built a connection between the Prussian city of Altona (Elbe) and the Hamburg train stations south of the Sternschanze, together with the Hamburg Senate .

In the 1990s, the park was used as a retreat for drug traffickers and addicts.

present

The Sternschanzenpark is an important recreational area for the residents of the otherwise densely built-up neighborhoods, who go for a walk, barbecue or play music there. There are extensive, natural playgrounds for children in the park. Especially in summer, small artists can often be found in the park , and movies are shown in the Outdoor Cine - Das Open Air Kino im Schanzenpark in July and August.

On or directly on the area is a former water tower ( Schanzenturm ), the Pöseldorf volunteer fire brigade with a fire station built in 1999 , a smaller bunker and the Sternchance café , which is located in the former Norwegian Home , a former daycare center founded by Norwegian European Aid in 1952 (in summer Killed in arson in 1998).

To the west, the Elisabeth retirement and nursing home of the Freemasons from 1795 , which built a new wing extension in 2008, borders the Sternschanzenpark.

Sporting use

The park is used by many people for recreational sports (joggers all year round); In winter, the Schanzenhügel is a popular toboggan area. In the north-western part of the park there are permanent boules lanes that are used intensively almost all year round.

In the north-western part there is a fenced-in sand field that is used intensively depending on the weather.

In the western part of the park there is an artificial turf soccer field and the new club house of the SC Sternschanze.

In the eastern part of the park, the stadium is Sport Union of Police of 1920 eV This turf course with clubhouse, career and floodlights is - apart from the Association for Physical Education Hammonia 1922 eV - also from the power teams (except for the first team) of FC St . Pauli used for point games.

In 2008 a small artificial turf field was laid out and opened next to the grass pitch .

Jump tower

The park is characterized by a hill (28 meters above sea level) - in the 13th century it was still called the Heidberg von Heimechhude - on which the largest former water tower in Europe, the Schanzenturm, is located today. It is industrial architecture , built between 1907 and 1910 by the architect Wilhelm Schwarz who is employed by the Hamburg Water Works (HWW). The tower was used until 1961. It is 57.5 meters high, octagonal and has a diameter of 32 meters. It is a landmark of the Schanzenviertel. The tower was converted into a four-star Mövenpick Hotel Hamburg between 2004 and 2007 , which provoked considerable public protests against the conversion of the Schanzenpark into a “park with a trade fair hotel”. In a legal dispute, the Hamburg administrative court came to the conclusion that the building permit issued by the Eimsbüttel district office on December 27, 1996 for the conversion into a hotel was "objectively unlawful".

Location and transport links

Due to a CDU majority decision of the Hamburg citizenship on March 6, 2006, the area of the Sternschanzenpark was moved on March 1, 2008 from the Eimsbüttel district of Rotherbaum to the new district of Sternschanze in the Altona district .

The Sternschanzenpark borders the Schröderstiftstraße in the northeast. The connecting line runs to the south ; today it connects the Hamburg-Altona station and the long-distance Deutsche Bahn line to the north with Hamburg's main station and is one of the busiest rail lines in Germany.

Today the connecting line has four tracks, with lines S11, S21 and S31 of the Hamburg S-Bahn running on the northern pair of tracks, and numerous long-distance and freight trains on the southern pair. The Sternschanze station for S-Bahn and U-Bahn is also located on it . The exit for the underground and the eastern S-Bahn exit lead almost directly into the park.

The subway passes under the park in a north-south direction. It has another train station on the edge of the park with the important Schlump transfer station .

The park is further framed by the Kleine Schäferkamp, Schanzenstrasse and Sternschanze.