Planten un Blomen
Planet un Blomen is an approximately 47 -acre park in the heart of Hamburg. The name is Low German and means " plants and flowers ." The founder and first director of the Botanical Garden in the Hamburg ramparts, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, planted on November 6, 1821 a plane tree, the first tree of the park, which has been preserved to this day at the entrance Dammtorbahnhof.
In summer public theater performances for children, water -air concerts and musical performances take place. Admission is free. Because of the parks and playgrounds in the park is also independent of events a popular destination.
- 5.1 Old Botanical Garden 5.1.1 Tropical Greenhouses
- 5.1.2 alpinum
Location
The park is part of a green corridor that runs west in an arc around the center of Hamburg and the course of the ablated in the 19th century city walls of the ramparts follows.
The green corridor leading from the Lombard Bridge on the Inner Alster through the connection area between train and Esplanade Gustav Mahler Park to Dammtorbahnhof. From there he performs today to planet un Blomen parts belonging to the Old Botanical Garden and the Wall Ring Park ( with the small and the great ramparts ) Millerntorplatz and across the street in the Old Elbpark, with an elevated position above the River Elbe and the jetties located Stintfang.
Planet un Blomen is bounded on the east by the road train Gorch-Fock-Wall/Holstenwall, incurred at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century some representative administrative buildings, such as the main post office on St. Stephen's Square or the Chamber of Crafts. Along this road is located in the south-eastern end of planet un Blomen the Museum of Hamburg History. In the West, here the park from the Glacischaussee and the underlying Spirit field is limited.
On Sievekingsplatz, with the Court of Justice building forum and the detention center in the west and the Johannes-Brahms -Platz with the Laeiszhalle in the east, the connection path of the park is passed under the streets.
While formerly known as ramparts and old botanical garden of the park include the Neustadt district, the northwestern part of the park of the whole park gave his name later, a part of St. Pauli. This is bordered to the north by the connecting track and the Congress Center Hamburg ( CCH), on the west by the Rentzelstraße with the Heinrich -Hertz TV Tower, and on the south by the fair at Hamburg Fair site from where a covered Arkadenweg, the so-called Messeweg, through the park to CCH leads with his high-rise hotel and the Dammtorbahnhof. This Messeweg and the Marseilles road to the underground entrances of the CCH form, as the border of the old botanical garden with the now used by the Bucerius Law School buildings of the Botanical Institute of the University.
History
Precursor Zoo and Cemetery
Still remembers the north adjacent Tiergartenstraße to its previous use as Zoologischer Garten Hamburg. The Hamburg Zoo was founded in 1863 by Ernst Merck and others. Alfred Edmund Brehm led to 1867, the author of Brehm's Animal Life, as the first director of the zoo. This bordered to the south of the St. Petersburg street / Jungiusstraße and the (old ) Botanical Garden, was of this but separated by the road When churchyards. This street name in turn recalls the Dammtorbahnhof cemeteries that were located here since 1793. At the zoo grounds a Volkswagen, bird and amusement park was built in 1930. 1934/35 was told the park then under the direction of landscape architect Karl Plomin a redesign for the "Low German Garden Show ".
Preparation by horticultural exhibitions
Garden Exhibition of 1897: It was held as a flower show in the Great ramparts between Millerntorplatz and Holsten Wall.
Low German Garden Show 1935: The site was (see Tiergartenstraße ) and the cleared site of the main churches in Hamburg Cemetery created by the merger of the old zoo. The Low German name planet un Blomen was introduced. According to the former national view exotic plants were replaced by native. The show should reflect the flora of Germany.
1953, 1963 and 1973 respectively, the International Horticultural Exhibitions ( IGA) were carried out on the premises. The internationality now also reflected in the flora of the plant.
IGA 1953: The area comprised planet un Blomen, the ramparts and the exhibition grounds. On the former Eulenburg, the hill next to the water organ of Philip tower was erected in the park lake. Water organ and Parksee were created.
IGA 1963: The exhibition area was extended to include the ramparts, the Botanical Garden and the Holy Spirit field. Have been preserved by the IGA 1963, the tropical greenhouses of Bernhard Hermkes in the old botanical garden. The Mediterranean terraces on the sunny side of the greenhouse to the moat towards were created. As a special highlight of the show led 1963, a gondola from Dammtorbahnhof eleven columns and 1.415 km to Millerntorplatz and back, which was also mined in the exhibition closes again. The elongated exhibition area, whose area was largely congruent was excellent with today's Planten un Blomen through this pathway.
IGA 1973: A crossing of the Marseilles road was created, designed playgrounds, water and light organ rink. From the old botanical garden, the greenhouse remained. The plans for the new Botanical Gardens in small Flottbeck were taken, then this newly created and renamed in 2012 in Loki Schmidt garden. Not much better than the cable car fared applied to the IGA IGA 1973 -Bahn ( although there was previously a park railway, but these sailed only a small circle around the old planet un Blomen ). She made stops at four stations between the inputs Dammtorbahnhof, TV Tower and Millerntorplatz; the tracks led through the middle of flower beds and gardens. The operation of the railway was continued after the end of the year of issue; however, since later found no operator, drove the last train in October 1982. In 1985, the tracks were largely dismantled, remains, however, are still to be found.
Reconstruction after 1973
In 1986, the areas of the Old Botanical Garden at the former Institute of Botany were (since 2000, the Bucerius Law School) and the small and the great ramparts on Wall Ring - which had in the meantime been managed by the district Hamburg-Mitte as Wallring Park - incorporated and the site into a public park converted. This was a turned -dissolved election promises of the Hamburg Senate. Prior to admission had been charged for planet un Blomen. , Which has become too small botanical garden with botanical institute was in 1979 in Klein Flottbek assigned a new and larger area.
A partial area of the old park site was diverted to the embankment of Hamburg- Altona connection path for the Congress Center Hamburg ( CCH) on the eastern edge and lowered the new Marseilles road, so it passes under the Garden Centre and at the same time is an access ramp to the underground parking garage.
The southern part of the park facing Dag Hammarskjöld place from Hamburg Dammtorbahnhof was a widely branched pedestrian bridge, the Dag Hammarskjöld bridge spans, to provide convenient access to the new planet un Blomen main entrance and access to the U- to enable station Stephansplatz.
Two Japanese gardens and a rose garden created. Across the park, a glass-covered walkway in 1990 between Congress Centrum and fairground set up.
The pharmacist garden in 1991 moved to the Northwest corner of the Tiergarten street.
Art in the Park
In and around planet un Blomen there are many works of art, like the Panther by Hans Martin Ruwoldt.
Memorials
At the crew in the Hamburger French period in the year 1813/1814 reminds a stone sarcophagus at the edge of the St. Petersburg street stands apart in the bushes of planet un Blomen opposite the Exhibition Hall 4B. In the former winter, the French referred all hamburgers that no longer had food supplies, the city, because they feared the siege of the city. Over 1000 Hamburg died at that time.
A memorial plaque on a former bastion above the moat in the park in the amount of Stephansplatz is reminiscent of the builders of the ramparts Johan van Valckenburgh. The ramparts were built in 1616-1625 to defend the city.
A plaque in the park at the rear of the courtyard of the detention center is reminiscent of 500 people who were there beheaded during the period of National Socialism. They had taken part in the European resistance against the German occupation. Which notably France Bloch- Sérazin and Suzanne Masson are called, two French women who were executed in 1943.
Main topics of the park
Old Botanical Garden
Tropical greenhouses
Planet un Blomen has in the center of the park on a tropical house complex (open daily during the day, free admission ) the greenhouses of the old, installed by Klein Flottbek Botanical Gardens.
The greenhouses were built in the years 1962/63 to a design by Bernhard Hermkes. Your opening took place as part of the IGA in 1963. The surface area of the greenhouses is around 2,800 m². They have a maximum height of 13 meters. A special feature of this system is that the glass structure is suspended from outer profiles of hollow boxes and thus the interiors are free of structural elements.
The complex is divided into five areas. The individual areas are divided according to different plants and climates. Thus, besides the actual tropical house a Palmfarnhaus, a Subtropenhaus, a cactus house and a fern house.
Today, greenhouses and adjacent Mediterranean terraces are under monument protection.
Alpinum
At the end of the 19th century it came to replicate in fashion, relief and its plants on a small scale. Also, garden director Eduard Zacharias laid in 1903 on the southern slopes of the (old ) Botanical Gardens such a rockery on.
Gentian and edelweiss are not to be found today between the boulders, the twisty paths of Alpinum are retained. The flora of the mountains moved in the new botanical garden for small Flottbeck.
Pharmacist Garden
In the apothecary garden take place on the second Sunday from May to September guided tours through the Hamburg Pharmacists Association.
Japanese garden with tea house
The Japanese Garden in planet un Blomen characterizes a central region and lies between the Congress Center Hamburg and the Hamburg Fair. It was designed in 1988 by landscape architect Yoshikuni Araki and is the largest of its kind in Europe. Although the design is strictly based on the design guidelines of classic Japanese gardens, it blends perfectly into the overall picture of the park. The various plants found with rocks and flowing waters a reflection of Japanese garden culture.
At the center of the Japanese Garden is a lake on whose shores since 1990, a rustic, authentic Japanese tea house is. Here to September classic tea ceremonies are celebrated in the months of May and you can try a variety of teas. In addition, find other events at irregular intervals instead of the tea house. So you can participate in workshops on Japanese calligraphy, taiko drum attend workshops or learn about Japanese fragrance ceremonies.
Rose Garden
The rose garden with an area of around 5,000 m² is since 1993 part of planet un Blomen. His plant was in the " classic style ". In the rose garden about 300 different types of roses were planted, including historical roses, shrub Park and wild roses, climbing roses or Hybrid Teas. The planting was completed by perennials, summer flowers and various small trees and shrubs.
Numerous Rose Arches and sitting areas round out the ensemble. At the center of the rose garden is a gazebo where you can be informed during the summer season on different varieties of roses and their care. In the summer here is listen to classical music every day. In 2004, there were violent protests by the citizens of Hamburg, including Hannelore Schmidt, when it was announced that in the wake of the expansion of the CCH a part of the Rose Garden should be abandoned. By a compromise, it was possible to prevent this in part.
Colored water -air concerts
The water -air concerts take place from early May to late September every evening. Water without light and music concerts, there are also afternoon. Concerts each lasting about half an hour. The water organ at the park lake fountain consists of a system, a music system and a lighting system. Two musicians use for live playback of music one of the two systems.
Bandstand
In the step-like scale bandstand above the park lake regular free live concerts. Among other things, regularly plays the Police Orchestra Hamburg.
Playgrounds
Planet un Blomen is also known for the varied playgrounds. The picture shows the large playground that is located at the entrance of the St. Petersburg street close and was modernized in 1991. Between the playground, with the Boller mountains and the sea terraces Café you will find a riding school ponies.
Töpferstube and mini golf
The Töpferstube is in the southern part planet un Blomens, the Great Wall systems located. Here are children from May to end of August each afternoon to learn how to work with clay on weekdays under professional guidance. Admission is free, the so-called " Tonkasse " but are always looking forward to receive a donation. In addition to the pottery room, in close proximity to the temporary buildings, there is a mini golf course, a small trampoline facility and a newspaper stand.
Artificial ice - skating rink and ramparts
In planet un Blomen there is a skating rink that is used as a roller skating and inline skating track in the summer from mid-April to late September. The rink has over 4,300 square meters total area one of the largest open-air ice rinks in the world.
Admission to the roller skating rink is in contrast to the rink free.