That today 205 hectars large Altonaer people park in Bahrenfeld is of Hamburg largest public park, whose core range stands since September 2002 under monument protection.

Emergence

Already 1895 came closer a private committee with the demand on the Altonaer municipal authorities to repair the striking lack of open space in the interest of an active health welfare service: the industrially coined/shaped, to 1938 independent Altona/Elbe was at that time the large city seal-settled beside Breslau in the German Reich. The municipality acquired numerous private properties at the periphery and in neighbouring land municipalities, among other things 1903 the Bahrenfelder firs, since this time where later large parts of the people park developed.

1913 decided municipal authorities under mayor Bernhard Schnackenburg the plant of an emperor William park, although its financing was not yet secured, and appointed Ferdinand doing mountain as the director of horticulture. This planned the park in conscious demarcation of the still spread horticulture school, after which architectural elements and regularities dominate the art park (as for instance in the East part Hamburg city parks) - rather the natural conditions and the materials found therein should determine the organization. approx. 1,000 unemployed persons "“state of emergency workers"” began and took 1914/15 with the preparation of the area the work after a war-conditioned interruption at November 1918. Even if the realization of the Tutenberg' plans the entire Weimar ones persisted through time, substantial parts now of the Altonaer people park plant mentioned were 1920 posed. 1925 were added the urban stadium.

Plant and equipment

Structured by an extensive axial Wegenetz and embedded into a wide forest with steep hills and deep ravines, a broadly varied offer at recovery, education and leisure-time facilities exists: Play and Liegewiesen, Minigolfanlage, the dahlia garden (with approximately 40,000 plants a routistic attraction), a training, a stauden and a rose garden, a forest didactic exhibition, hedge theatre, several lookout points (under it strictly geometrically doing mountain put on and the terrassierte) as well as originally the gardening arranged Schleswig-Holstein model. A-turn make possible a farmhouse of Lower Saxony with coffee and beer garden, shifted after Altona, as well as a "“dairy farming"”; likewise within the park a primary school and a children's home lie.

Encloses the people park a wreath/ring of further uses, in particular the Bahrenfelder Trabrennbahn (already since 1867), that after doing mountain plans 1923 Altonaer put on main cemetery as well as allotment plants. The 1931 paddle lake put on (drying in the middle of the 1930er pleases) is nowadays no longer present, which groundwater-fed open-rir swimming pool (1927 open) and the fount moorland meadow (both since the building of two arenas - see below).

Present situation

• With the increase of the individual traffic for the 1970er years the park was cut off to more and more by the surrounding quarters: to the expanded surfaces of the railroad line to Schleswig-Holstein the motorway A 7 was added with its mehrspurigen development roads; a "“by-pass Bahrenfeld"” was in addition planned by the south part of the park. In particular since the turn of the century work besides large, asphalted traffic surfaces deeply into the recreation areas inside (parking lot brown close of the connection point rear spar people park, durable transformation of the fount moorland meadow to the parking lot red).
• Some Buslinien lead to the park, but the rapid-transit railway yards Stellingen and Eidelstedt lie relatively far, and the footpath by a trade area and/or along (recently shut down) a sewage purification plant and the incineration plant is besides unattractively. Plans for a direct metropolitan railway binding of Altona or direction Lurup/Osdorfer fount were already pursued by the Red-Green senate under Ortwin round (1997-2001) only halfheartedly and to be since that time completely on ice.
• By the new buildings by "“AOL"” - and "“Color LINE arena"” at the beginning of 21. Century (third resounded for ice sport is in planning) the surfaces were in the meantime denationalized approximately around the former people park stadium.

• Local financial problems lead to reduced care measures: thus the horticulture department had under-plowed from the 1920er years coming, Schleswig-Holstein model gardening put on simple 1998, had it on resolution of the district meeting however to re-establish - even if only in a stony, less maintain-intensive form.
• Despite these problems is the close-to-the-city park likes and is intensively used. It was the more surprising that in March 2005 of Hamburg stepped director of upper's building walter with the explanation to the public to change the character of the people park by interferences into the forest stand in favor of a use "“more up-to-date"” (sport park in the people park). To this intention the building authority holds: although in the one-sided surely unsuspected Hamburg evening paper in addition several-day-long numerous reader letters were published, from which more only one for these plans did not express itself, in May Jack Rouse Associates, a US firm, which was merged also into the planning of the autocity wolf castle, that development of a "“revaluing"” concept one assigned.

Literature

• Paul Th. Hoffmann, new Altona 1919-1929. Ten years structure of a German large city, 2 Bde., Jena 1929 (E. Diederichs)
• Environmental protection authority Hamburg (Hg.) bearb.v. Lars Ruge, 75 years people park Altona. A park leader, Hamburg 1995

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• Side of a citizens' initiative to historical and current questions approximately around the park
• People park photo

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