Volkspark Mariendorf
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| View to Mariendorfer Damm over the Blümelteich | |
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| place | Berlin |
| District | Mariendorf |
| Created | 1923-1931 |
| Newly designed | multiple |
| use | |
| User groups | Foot traffic ; leisure |
| Park design | Rudolf Fischer, Erwin Barth |
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| Parking area | 130,000 m² |
The Volkspark Mariendorf is a garden monument in the Berlin district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg , Mariendorf district and was built with interruptions between 1923 and 1931. The park includes a small slope (which also serves as a toboggan hill ), the flower pond (approx. 12,500 m²) bordered on three sides [see picture], three largely natural and replanted ponds (dill pond, small pond and Eckernpfuhl) and a rose garden.
history
The Volkspark forms the largest contiguous green area in Mariendorf and is laid out as an organized nature park . It was not provided for in the first development plan from 1906. The area was to be developed by roads and then built on.
Just a year later, the community leader Wilhelm Hugo Westphal suggested building a community park. The first plots of land were bought from 1908, in 1909 the community took out a loan to purchase the land and bought the ponds belonging to the inn owner Georg Freiberg. The first drafts for a park (including 1914 in the overall development plan for Mariendorf by Bruno Möhring ) for a park were developed between 1912 and 1914 during the tenure of Mayor Karl Prühß. However, the First World War stopped the implementation. A citizens' initiative from Mariendorfer landowners showed no interest in the green, they favored the settlement of the area.
Old postcards showing, for example, a café, restaurant and even a rowing boat station at the Blümelteich, prove that the area was used for recreational purposes. There was also a 60 meter high toboggan hill. It was created between 1927 and 1929 as part of an emergency program by dumping household waste and excavated material from road and subway construction and was increased by ten meters from 1952 to 1954 due to rubble and debris.
Only a few years after the First World War was the Volkspark back on the political agenda. In particular, the Tempelhof city council Friedrich Küter pushed the planning in 1922, the Berlin magistrate approved the funds for the construction of the people's and sports park that year. The first groundbreaking took place on June 12, 1923, the work was carried out (with interruptions due to lack of money) as an emergency program. However, there was disagreement about the design of the park, so the planned artificial straightening of the ponds met with resistance. Some critics also felt that the swimming pool, which was planned instead of the flower pond, was a foreign body in a park.
After the Tempelhof district assembly in January 1928 had spoken out in favor of natural shorelines and the construction of the swimming pool (today: Sommerbad Mariendorf) on the eastern edge of the park behind the sports stadium, concrete implementation began. That year Erwin Barth prepared a partial plan for the preservation of the Ice Age Seerinnen and Rudolf Fischer presented the new plan in 1929 on the basis of the decision of BVV Tempelhof and Barth's planning.
On June 29, 1931, the Volkspark was officially inaugurated with the symbolic commissioning of a fountain. However, sports facilities were initially missing.
In 1931 the toboggan run was increased and extended with the design idea of imitating a German low mountain range . The sludge taken from the flower pond served as building material. From 1933 to 1934 the rose and perennial gardens were laid out and 120,000 perennials were planted on the Rodelberg. In 1935 the arena , the current Volksparkstadion , was completed without a roofed grandstand and the sundial was placed in the axis cross of the facility.
Part of the Blümelteich was opened in 1938 as the first Berlin route for model sailboats. In later years, the upgrading of boats with gasoline engines caused disputes with local residents. Things have been much quieter since 1974, as the district office banned the disturbance of the peace and the model makers switched their watercraft to electric motors.
The redevelopment of the park, which was urgently needed after the Second World War, took place in the 1950s. The Mariendorf summer pool was also built during this time . The Volksparkstadion was later given a covered grandstand, so that 2,000 of the 10,000 seats are now protected from the weather. There are also two artificial turf pitches with floodlights and a hockey field.
A memorial stone for the initiator of the Volkspark, Friedrich Küter, has been on the Eckernpfuhl since 1951.
In June 1999 a new sundial was installed in the Volkspark Mariendorf. The State Monuments Office had given them to the Tempelhof district office; it reproduces the first sundial that existed here. It is installed on a stone pillar and is similar in many aspects to the sundial at Volkspark Wilmersdorf . The old sundial is on the toboggan run on the so-called Hexenberg Friedrich-Franz- / Friedrich-Karl-Straße .
Because fatal accidents occurred on the toboggan run on the steep curve ("Mariendorfer Todesbahn"), the starting point of the toboggan run was moved a few meters down at the end of the 1980s.
In autumn 2009 the Volkspark received greater media attention when animal abusers in the flower pond killed or seriously injured a swan and several ducks with blowpipe arrows.
use
From 1984 to 2013 the "International Culture Pleasure Garden" organized by the Tempelhof-Schöneberg District Office took place annually on Ascension Day for four days with numerous cultural events and attractions. In 2007, an entry fee of one euro was charged for the first time for the event, which is now secured with a fence.
The Volkspark is widely used: Parents and their children visit the playgrounds, strollers, joggers, sun worshipers, sports enthusiasts and model boat builders share the remaining areas.
Sculptures
- Waldemar Berger 's children's fountain sculpture dates from 1926 to 1928 and was renovated in 1983. Your location is on the corner of Sumpfgarten and Lindenplatz.
- In the perennial garden to the north and south-west are the children's and animal sculptures Boy with the billy goat and girl with sheep , to the east as a counterpart the girl with deer and the ocarina playing boy with dog . Instead of the originals created by Friedrich Zuchantke between 1933 and 1936 and destroyed or disappeared, only cast concrete copies have been on site since 2001.
- The bronze sculpture Heron created by Demetros Anastasatos from 1961 in the pond at the entrance to Mariendorfer Damm 165 is striking .
- The approximately 110 cm high play sculpture Bear on the children's playground to the northwest on Prühßstrasse was made by Hans Bautz in 1966 and is made of limestone .
- At the entrance Marie Damm on the central axis is since 1985 the steel -Werk riven triangle of Volkmar Haase .
- At the entrance to Rixdorfer Straße at the corner of Alt-Mariendorf is the three-part sculpture Gruppe 84 designed by Manfred Hodapp from 1985 and the sculpture Great Idol and Trilogy by Miguel Esteban Cano by Dietrich Arlt-Aeras from 1984/1985 .
Sundial from 1999
Girl with deer
Girl with sheep
Boy with a billy goat
Boy with dog
Game Plastic Bear Bautz
Great idol from Arlt-Aeras
Group 84 from Hodapp
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| Children's fountain | heron | Split triangle | trilogy |
Volksparkstadion
The Volksparkstadion Mariendorf (completed in 1935) is located on the eastern edge of the park, along with other sports fields . It is the home ground of TSV Mariendorf 1897 e. V. and with a capacity of around 10,000 spectators the seventh largest stadium in Berlin.
Since 1984 the Rocktreff , the largest amateur band festival in Berlin, has been held here every summer .
The artificial turf hockey pitch is the home ground of the Mariendorfer Hockey Club 1931 e. V. It borders on the south of the soccer fields that were converted from Asche to artificial turf in 2006 and 2007.
- Transport connections: Underground line U6 : Alt-Mariendorf , Westphalweg , Bus: M77, 277, 181, 282, M76, 179, X76
literature
- Rubble, railways and districts (Angela M. Arnold, Gabriele von Griesheim), self-published 2002, ISBN 3-00-009839-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ordinance on the Protection of Natural Monuments (PDF; 520 kB)
- ^ The structural future of Mariendorf and Rudow. In: Berliner Volks-Zeitung , September 22, 1914
- ↑ Local politician, Mayor of Mariendorf
- ↑ Jens Dengler: Sundials in the southeast of Berlin. (With one photo each of both the old and the new sundial.). In: jd - Jens Dengler's homepage: "Sundials in Berlin and the surrounding area". Retrieved March 9, 2008 .
- ↑ Tortured swan dead . In: BZ , September 30, 2009
- ↑ Headshot: Who will stop the cruelers? In: BZ , November 13, 2009
- ↑ Marc Wellmann, Thomas Günther: Kinderbrunnen, 1926–1928. (No longer available online.) In: Bildhauerei in Berlin - catalog. Archived from the original on June 4, 2009 ; Retrieved March 8, 2008 . 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.
- ^ Marc Wellmann, Thomas Günther: Reiher, 1961. (No longer available online.) In: Sculpture in Berlin - catalog. Archived from the original on June 14, 2008 ; Retrieved March 8, 2008 . 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.
- ^ Marc Wellmann, Thomas Günther: Bär, Spielplastik, 1966. (No longer available online.) In: Sculpture in Berlin - catalog. Archived from the original on June 14, 2008 ; Retrieved March 8, 2008 . 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.
- ^ Marc Wellmann, Thomas Günther: Gespaltenes Dreieck 1972. (No longer available online.) In: Sculpture in Berlin - catalog. Archived from the original on January 20, 2012 ; Retrieved May 28, 2010 . 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.
- ↑ Marc Wellmann, Thomas Günther: Group 84, 1985. (Not available online.) In: Sculpture in Berlin - catalog. Archived from the original on June 14, 2008 ; Retrieved March 8, 2008 . 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.
- ^ Marc Wellmann, Thomas Günther: Großes Idol, 1984/85. (No longer available online.) In: Bildhauerei in Berlin - catalog. Archived from the original on June 14, 2008 ; Retrieved March 8, 2008 . 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.
- ^ Marc Wellmann, Thomas Günther: Trilogie, 1984/85. (No longer available online.) In: Bildhauerei in Berlin - catalog. Archived from the original on January 20, 2012 ; Retrieved May 28, 2010 . 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.
- ^ Marc Wellmann: Sculpture in Berlin. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 7, 2008 ; Retrieved March 8, 2008 . 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.
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 36.6 " N , 13 ° 23 ′ 43.1" E