Juniper Park

Arcades in summer

Central meadow

The Wacholderpark is a listed park in Hamburg . The character of the park is determined by the lavishly designed linden tree walkways.

location

The small park is located in the center of Hamburg's Fuhlsbüttel district in the immediate vicinity of the underground station . It has an almost square shape with an area of ​​approx. 10,000 m².

history

Planned by Leberecht Migge from 1909 onwards, the park was created specifically as a play park between 1910 and 1911. Migge already found a meadow, in his own words "about 1 hectare large, about 1 m higher than the surrounding streets and accompanied on one side by a high hawthorn kink". He redesigned the existing landscape only slightly, in particular the sunny meadow was used as the core of the park. On the northeast side, the kink was preserved, in the southeast and southwest he planned the linden arcades and in the northwest two groups of trees with a playground and gym. Migge's original plan included an entrance area with a gate and two houses, but these probably never existed and in any case no longer existed in 1927.

The large chestnut in the southwest corner was planned as a solitary tree, but today it stands on the edge of a wood that was planted in the 1960s to separate the park from the parking lot. This parking lot originally belonged to the park and was only separated when the need for parking spaces near the underground station increased.

The complex is an example of the reform of garden architecture before the First World War and a symbol of the development of Fuhlsbuettel into an attractive residential area for the middle class .

Furnishing

The park essentially consists of the large meadow with the surrounding paths. The northwest side is designed entirely as a playground. There are some benches in the north-west and in the middle, some of which date from the time the park was founded.

Photographs and map

Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 54 ″  N , 10 ° 1 ′ 29 ″  E

Juniper Park​

Hamburg

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  View over the meadow to the Bergkoppelweg

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  Field stone walls in the entrance area

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  Arcade to the Wacholderweg seen from the meadow

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  View over the meadow to the Wacholderweg

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  Park bench from the early days of the park

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  One of the information signs

literature

• Axel Iwohn, Martina Nath-Esser, Claudia Wollkopf: Hamburg Grün - The gardens and parks of the city . L&H Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-928119-39-7 , p. 171-173 .
• Ralf Lange: Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 240 .

Web links

Commons : Wacholderpark Fuhlsbüttel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description on hamburg.de.
• Heino Grunert, Axel Iwohn: Hamburg's greenery between tradition and trends: Forays through parks and natural landscapes . Authority for Urban Development and the Environment, Hamburg 2014, p. 52-53 . ; ( online )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Length of the side measured in the satellite image using Google Maps.
2. ↑ quote in Axel Iwohn, Martina Nath-eater, Claudia Wollkopf: Hamburg Green - The gardens and parks of the city . L&H Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-928119-39-7 , p. 172 .