Trygve Lie Park
The Trygve-Lie-Park is a park in the Aspern part of Vienna's 22nd district, Donaustadt . It is located in the southeastern part of the mid-1990s established Norwegian district and is named after the Norwegian politician , Trygve Lie named.
history
In the area of today's Trygve-Lie-Park there was once a swamp and meadow landscape on the edge of the Mühlwasser, the northern branch of which extended to today's Wulzendorfstraße before the Viennese Danube regulation was completed in 1875 . At the beginning of the 19th century at the latest, a herb garden was laid out west of the village of Aspern , which almost extended to the area of today's park. The Haidäcker were located here laterwhich stretched west to Kapellenweg. In the mid-1990s, numerous residential buildings and a school were built on the former arable land. Since all the traffic areas that were newly created here were named after Norwegian cities (Bergengasse, Hammerfestweg, Hortengasse, Osloplatz, Sandefjordgasse, Stavangergasse, Tönsbergweg and Trondheimgasse), the colloquial name of the Norwegian quarter soon established itself for this area.
An area over which there is a 110-kV high-voltage line running between the Donaustadt steam power plant and the Simmering power plant , as well as an overhead line mast , remained free, as it was unsuitable for construction. A park was built here in 1997 according to plans by landscape architects Jakob Fina and Barbara Bacher, which was named after the Norwegian politician and first Secretary General of the United Nations Trygve Lie on the basis of a municipal council resolution of April 11, 1997 . Especially for young people, the Asperner Wies'n youth square , which opened in 2010, was built east of the park on the other side of Stavangergasse . In 2016 the streetball court in Trygve-Lie-Park was renewed and received a higher metal fence, which is spanned with a net.
Location and description
The approximately 4000 m² Trygve-Lie-Park has a rectangular area and is bordered by Stavangergasse and Tönsbergweg as well as two sidewalks from the adjacent residential complexes. It has a children's playground, a street ball field and a simple, non-fenced football field equipped with small metal football goals , the boundary of which results from a slightly lowered floor level. The sidewalks, which are arranged at right angles, are diagonally offset from the boundaries of the park. The power pole in the northwestern part of the park is completely enclosed by brightly painted concrete walls. Dogs are generally prohibited in the park, the closest dog zone is around 100 meters away.
In the eastern part of the park at Stavangergasse there is a memorial created by the sculptor Hubert Wilfan in 1997 in memory of Trygve Lie. Three metal plates with the inscriptions “TRYGVE”, “LIE” and “NORWEGIAN POLITICIAN 1896–1986 FIRST SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE UN 1946–1953” are placed in the middle of a vertical stone. At the bottom right there is a small plate with the signature of the sculptor, “WILFAN 1997”. The memorial stone is surrounded by seven lying stones arranged in a circle.
Trees
The Trygve-Lie-Park has a population of 59 trees (as of 2017), the following tree species and ornamental forms are represented:
- Southern hackberry ( Celtis australis ), along the northern park boundary
- Leather husk tree ( Gleditsia triacanthos ), group of trees planted in a grid pattern in the south of the park
- Ornamental pear ( Pyrus calleryana 'Chanticleer'), along the central walkway through the park
- Hornbeam ( Carpinus betulus ), between the power pole and Tönsbergweg
- Slender column hornbeam ( Carpinus betulus 'Frans Fontaine'), between Tönsbergweg and basketball cage / playground
- Ash maple ( Acer negundo ), along the southern park boundary
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Vienna cultural property: Franziszeischer Cadastre 1829
- ^ Vienna cultural property: General city plan 1904 and 1912
- ^ Trygve-Lie-Park in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ↑ Vienna Environment, Trees and Green Areas in Vienna
Remarks
- ↑ The term of office is given in most sources as 1946–1952, as Lie announced his resignation on November 10, 1952, but his successor Dag Hammarskjöld did not take office until April 10, 1953.
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 51.5 ″ N , 16 ° 28 ′ 32.8 ″ E