Willy Spahn Park
The Willy-Spahn-Park is a 4 hectare public park in Hanover , located in the Ahlem district and named after its founder Willy Spahn.
description
The approximately 440 × 120 m large park is located in a hollow that was created by the mining of marl from the middle of the 19th century. A 1.3 km network of trails leads through the park, which is accessible via seven entrances. The focus is on the restored industrial monument of a lime kiln with a walk-in kiln. The roof structure, which is 500 m² in size and can be reached via a wooden bridge, can be viewed on special tours (for example on the annual “ Open Monument Day ”). The partially natural park has old foliage and fruit trees. The trees are on different levels and terraces that were created during the marl mining. The fruits of the apple, pear, plum and cherry trees can be picked. The park is a "green paradise", especially in the summer months. The Green Ring , a cycling and hiking trail around the city of Hanover, runs alongside the park .
history
Marl pit
The area between Mönckebergallee and Wunstorfer Landstraße was a marl pit from around 1850 . In the pit, marl and limestone from the Upper Jurassic ( Malm ) was extracted and burned to quicklime in the kiln ( Hoffmann's ring furnace ) built in 1925 . The 35 m long and 13 m wide kiln with a 34 m high chimney has been a listed building since 1997 . It is the only surviving lime kiln in the region.
Orchard and foundation
After setting the lime production during the Great Depression , the couple Emilie and Willy Spahn acquired in 1938, the 42,000-square-foot lot. The couple planted an orchard on the terraces of the limestone quarry. They made fruit juices and lemonade in the building of the former kiln . After the company was closed in the 1960s, the site lay fallow and became increasingly overgrown. In 1982, shortly before Willy Spahn's death, a donation agreement was signed with the city of Hanover and a foundation was set up. The aim of the foundation was to open the site to the public. In 1996, after Emilie Spahn's death, the city of Hanover accepted the park's inheritance.
Park creation
In 1996, work began to clear the vegetation on the site. In 1998 the non-profit association "Willy Spahn Park" was founded. In 2002, the restoration of the kiln (including the roof structure) and the chimney began, for which funds from the district government and the Hanover region were used. The city of Hanover took care of the park renovation. In the spring of 2004, the Willy-Spahn-Park was opened to the public.
literature
- The Willy Spahn Park . Text: Elke Schwägerl. Hanover: State capital, Department of Environment and Urban Green 2005. (Free brochure, available from Department of Environment and Urban Green)
- Verena and Volker Stahnke (text): Willy-Spahn-Park In Silke Beck, Susanne Wildermann, Birgit Roos, Burkhard Wetekam (red.): 12 green treasures. Discovery tours for children in the city and region of Hanover , for children between 5 and 12 years, publisher: Wissenschaftsladen Hanover eV in cooperation with the state capital Hanover and the Hanover region, Hanover: Transfer-Medien, 2013, ISBN 978-398-14315-5 -1 ; Table of contents and publisher's announcement ( Memento of May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), pp. 44–51
Web links
- Information on hannover.de
- Events in Willy-Spahn-Park
- Description of the marl pit with photos and a map by the State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology in Lower Saxony, (pdf)
- Description, pictures and map of the Willy-Spahn-Park in Hanover
- Website of the association “Willy-Spahn-Park e. V. "
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 7 ″ N , 9 ° 39 ′ 22 ″ E