Zamenhof Park
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View of the park from Einbecker Strasse; State in April 2010 |
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| place | Berlin |
| District | Rummelsburg |
| Newly designed | 1994-1996 |
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Rosenfelder Strasse, Einbecker Strasse, Marie-Curie-Allee |
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| User groups | pedestrian |
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| Parking area | 2000 m² |
| building-costs | (Name badge financed by the German Esperanto Association) |
The Zamenhofpark is an urban green area in the Berlin district of Rummelsburg in the Lichtenberg district . It was given its name on May 17, 2009 in honor of Esperanto founder Ludwig L. Zamenhof and was inaugurated on July 23, 2009.
Location and history
The park is bounded to the west by Rosenfelder Strasse, north by Einbecker Strasse (until 1951: Prinzenallee ) and east by Marie-Curie-Allee (until 1951: Capriviallee ). In the southern area there was a playground for the children and young people in the area early on , but it was not given an official name. Over the years, because of the adjacent Rosenfelder Straße, the name Rosenfelder Platz had become natural for the residents of the entire park .
In the past, the Friedrichsfelde Lichtenberger Grenzgraben ran through the terrain of today's Zamenhof Park as a natural municipality boundary. Today the former watercourse still runs as a rainwater canal under Rosenfelder Strasse (from Frankfurter Allee), turning under Einbecker Strasse and continuing under Marie-Curie-Allee towards Rummelsburger See.
A plan of the green area from 1977 shows that the area was already landscaped in the 1970s. There was a large lawn in the middle of the park, and trees and trees bordered the park to the west, east and south. The plantings were partly surrounded by low walls, which were also used as seating areas facing Einbecker Straße. Among other things, roses of the “Rosenmärchen” variety and the “Erfurt” park rose bloomed.
The district green area office redesigned the area from 1994–1996, existing bushes and trees were embedded in a new rectangular path system. In the center of the lawn, the gardeners created a roundabout as a sunken garden, with a circular flowerbed in the middle, around which eight benches were set up, behind which red and yellow roses border the roundabout to the lawn. The playground to the south of the park was enlarged, renovated in 2000 and repaired in 2008. The renovation was planned in the participatory budget for 2012/2013. In 2014–2015 it was equipped with new play equipment.
On August 2, 2008, the Esperanto League Berlin opened a cultural event in the as yet nameless park in memory of Zamenhof's visit to Berlin 100 years earlier in 1908 by reading out a letter to District Mayor Christina Emmrich , in which it was proposed to open the park on Rosenfelder Strasse to be named after Ludwig Zamenhof. This was followed by a trip in historical trams to the Polish Cultural Institute in Burgstrasse , where the author Roman Dobrzyński and translator Michael Scherm presented the book Die Zamenhofstrasse and the German translation.
The naming was made at the request of the culture committee of the district assembly of Lichtenberg on November 20, 2008. The official inauguration, however, was postponed to the year of the 150th birthday of the Jewish-Polish humanist Zamenhof and before the beginning of the Esperanto World Congress in his native Białystok . The grandson of the namesake Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof was unable to attend the inauguration ceremony at short notice, but he did send a greeting . The chairman of the German Esperanto Association , Rudolf Fischer, performed the ceremony, he paid tribute to the life of Zamenhof in a short speech and traced the family's ordeal during the Nazi era . Then Piotr Golema, Counselor of the Polish Embassy in Berlin , and the then District Mayor Christina Emmrich unveiled the name tag together. On April 14, 2011, the nameplate had to be renewed because the previous one had been destroyed by vandalism .
In 2008, the German Esperanto Association opened its office in the immediate vicinity of the park, at 36 Einbecker Strasse. The German Esperanto Youth had already moved into the same building as their office in 2003. Then the Esperanto League Berlin, the German Esperanto Archive and the Berlin Esperanto Library (espoteko) came to stay here, so that this house was referred to as the Esperanto House and the idea of giving the park the name of the Esperanto founder .
Anniversary event "10 years Zamenhofpark" 2019
On August 9, 2019, the Esperanto League Berlin, together with the Museum Lichtenberg, honored the ten-year existence of the Zamenhof Park with an exhibition in the Lichtenberg Town Hall and, together with the Lichtenberg Mitte district coordination, a musical-literary event in Esperanto and German and the installation of a showcase Information board about the history of the park, about Zamenhof and the Esperanto language in Zamenhofpark. The event and showcase were funded by the Kiezfonds.
The exhibition “10 Years of Zamenhof Park” provides information about the history of the park using historical photos from the museum and plans for the horticultural design of the area from the Road and Green Area Office and also about how Esperanto culture was cultivated at different times in Lichtenberg and is maintained today. It was opened in front of Lichtenberg and an international audience with a greeting from Lichtenberg's Mayor Michael Grunst and an introductory lecture by the exhibition author Fritz Wollenberg in the council chamber.
In the evening, District Mayor Michael Grunst and the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Berlin Andrzej Przyłębski unveiled the new showcase in Zamenhofpark. Esperanto songs by the Polish singer Jerzy Handzlik and the Berlin singer Stephan Schneider played. The actress Wera Blanke read texts by the Esperanto writer Lena Karpunina and the poet Joseph von Eichendorff in Esperanto and German.
Among the guests were the former mayor of Lichtenberg Christina Emmrich and the former chairman of the culture commission of the Lichtenberger BVV Jürgen Hofmann, who participated in the naming of the park in 2009, as well as the representative of Esperanto Nederland Noord Andries Hovinga from Leeuwarden , a Dutch town with Zamenhofpark.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berlin has a Zamenhofpark (2009), in: Fritz Wollenberg (Red.): Esperanto. Language and culture in Berlin and Brandenburg. 111 years, Jubilea LIbro 1903-2014 , Mondial, New York - Berlin 2017, pp. 444–450.
- ↑ Berlin city map from 1946 shows a small rectangle below Prinzenstrasse (today: Einbecker Strasse). Even on later city maps, only a narrow green area can be seen.
- ↑ a b BVV decision on participatory budgeting 2012, Annex 1 (at the bottom) , newly accessed on February 6, 2016.
- ^ "10 years Zamenhofpark" - an exhibition by the Esperanto League Berlin and the Lichtenberg Museum in Lichtenberg Town Hall - August 9 to September 6, 2019, text by Fritz Wollenberg
- ↑ According to information from the Berlin-Lichtenberg Road and Green Area Office.
- ^ "Die Zamenhofstraße" - German-language edition presented in Berlin, in: Fritz Wollenberg (Red.): Esperanto. Language and culture in Berlin and Brandenburg. 111 years, Jubilea LIbro 1903-2014 , Mondial, New York - Berlin 2017, pp. 269–274.
- ↑ Zamenhof's 150th birthday was on December 15, 2009. The 94th Esperanto World Congress in Białystok, which was dedicated to this anniversary, took place from July 25 to August 1, 2009, with the inauguration of the Zamenhof Park two days before the start of this congress.
- ^ Inauguration of the Zamenhof Park in July 2009 .
- ↑ Information from a press kit distributed by the Lichtenberg District Office , accessed on April 12, 2012.
- ↑ Lichtenberg. New plaque in front of Zamenhofpark reminds of the founder of Esperanto . In: Berliner Morgenpost on a new board for the Zamenhof Park; Retrieved April 13, 2012.
- ↑ Information from the Lichtenberg Museum on the anniversary "10 years of Zamenhofpark
- ↑ Press release from the Berlin Lichtenberg district office
- ↑ Poster for the anniversary
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 33.9 ″ N , 13 ° 30 ′ 12.9 ″ E