5/25/2008

Germany's Best Park 2006


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Green Ring, Ladenburg. Decision mostly based on how it integrates itself into the city as useful everyday infrastructure, and works in improving that infrastructure combining it with nature and all that kinda stuff.

It bombed in the followup European contest though. Traditional - "natural esthetic" parks - are far more well-liked.

4 Kommentare:

Anonym hat gesagt…

i can definitely see how this could pass for best park, just based on this pic. there's something wonderfully serene about this. then again, i love flat, well-trimmed land with trees spaced apart. lol the parks i usually see have blocked off wooded areas. behind plain fields of nothing.

Kato hat gesagt…

That's actually only the large lawn used e.g. for tents during festivals, or to play soccer on ^^;

The whole park surrounds half the town, integrates the entire Neckar shore along the town, has several "natural" playgrounds for kids, and contains several ruins of old city fortifications, as well as having directly adjacent to it a public swimming pool and a number of sports areas.

It's damn awesome ^^;

"Park" in Germany often means only trimmed areas really. Wooded areas (other than to surround it, or to separate it off from other stuff) are rarely parts of a park here.

Mostly has to do with responsibilities i think, and power shifting of sorts. If it has wooded areas of a certain continuous size, it automatically falls under (state) forest administration - while as a park it falls under local municipal administration instead.
Exception being forrest parks of course, which are mostly under forrest administration ^^;;;

Anonym hat gesagt…

holy shit, that sounds amazing. yeah, "park" in the usual sense wouldn't suffice. sounds like an all-inclusive continent. lol well, it's nice to know that the forest administration has some clout in town then. XD i bet the air in the town must be cleaner?? not to mention quality of life...

Kato hat gesagt…

lol

yeah, the quality of life is really great in places with some sort of park or similar nearby.

there aren't really all that many forrests (or forrested areas) inside the cities here. mostly, it's huge, continuous forrests, with only some streets crossing them.
and outside the cities, it's often either more of the same, or it's an artificial forrest planted for the wood. not that there are that many forrests remaining in places that can be remotely used for agriculture ^^;;;