Tilla Durieux Park

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Tilla Durieux Park
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Park in Berlin
Tilla Durieux Park
View from the north over the Tilla-Durieux-Park
Basic data
place Berlin
District Berlin center
Created 2000 to 2003
use
User groups Foot traffic ; leisure
Park design DS Landschapsarchitecten

The Tilla Durieux-Park , named after the actress Tilla Durieux , is a public open space in the Berlin district of Tiergarten .

location

The park runs as a 50 meter narrow band (30 meters of which is meadow space inside) from Potsdamer Platz to the south to the Landwehr Canal , between the Daimler area or Linkstraße on one side and the Kolonnaden park or - according to the writer and journalist Gabriele Tergit named - Gabriele-Tergit-Promenade on the other side. The park covers its entire length of 485 meters over the north-south long-distance railway tunnel , from which a ventilation shaft protrudes into the park at the north end. The park is part of the 40-kilometer north-south path, which, as hiking trail 5 of Berlin's 20 main green paths, runs from north along the Panke to south to the Teltow Park regional park. To the north, the park connects to the green spaces at Potsdamer Platz and the Spreebogenpark in the government district. To the south, on the opposite side of the Landwehr Canal, is the Park am Gleisdreieck .

Building history

The Amsterdam Landschaftsarchitekturbüro DS Landschapsarchitecten won the 1995 with his designs design competition "Two parks at Potsdamer Platz". In addition to the Tilla-Durieux-Park, the office also designed the Henriette-Herz- Park . The Tilla-Durieux-Park was opened on June 21, 2003. The construction costs amounted to 2.25 million euros, the facility has an area of ​​25,000 m².

layout

'Lawn sculpture' with a twisted slope

The park essentially consists of two sloping lawns, each of which is delimited by a side avenue by steep slopes . The slope is rotated along the longitudinal axis so that the highest points of the lawns are at the southwest and northeast end of the park. In an incision in the transverse axis of this “lawn sculpture” are five 21-meter-long seesaws on which visitors can see the rotation (the seesaws are currently fixed due to safety concerns). To the side there are promenades with linden trees .

This complex, also known as an “oversized lawn cushion” or “immense urban sofa”, can be seen as a Land Art- influenced, minimalist interpretation of the idea of ​​a park with a relatively open concept of use. When the weather is good, Berliners and tourists alike like to use the "lawn cushion" to relax, sunbathe, rest and linger.

literature

  • Nicole Uhrig: Berlin. A companion to new landscape architecture. Callwey, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-7667-1636-0

Web links

Commons : Tilla-Durieux-Park  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 20 main green paths, path number: 5
  2. Ariane Röntz: From a cultural use of space . ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Stadt + Grün . Vol. 55, August 2006, pp. 8-9. ISSN 0948-9770 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stadtundgruen.de 
  3. In the original: “immense urban sofa”. See: Christophe Girot: Eulogy of the Void. The Lost Power of Berlin Landscapes After the Wall . ( Memento from August 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: DISP . No. 156, 1/2004, pp. 35-39, here pp. 38-39, quotation p. 39.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 23 "  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 30"  E