State Horticultural Show Würzburg 2018

The new development area is located in an elevated position on the eastern outskirts of Würzburg with a view of the city skyline and the Marienberg fortress and with good connections to the city centre. The potential of the former military Hubland site lies in its exposed topographical location and its many connections to the surrounding area. These must be taken up!

The basic structure of the park is the "Belt-Walk", which encloses the entire park like a brace and connects it with access to Würzburg city centre on the one hand and with the green belt surrounding Würzburg on the other. The "Belt-Walk", a motif from the English landscape garden, opens up the new park along its boundaries, slightly elevated, and guides the visitor along the changing cityscapes and landscapes of the surroundings. A surrounding seating wall delimits the open, elongated meadow space, the " Lange Wiese/Long Meadow", which is equally suitable as an informal play space and sunbathing lawn.

The "Belvedere" forms the highlight of the "Belt-Walk" in the east: here it swings up to the bridge as part of the path and opens up the generous view across the park to the city skyline and Marienberg Fortress. At the same time, as a gateway, it connects with the landscape space to the east of the park. The Belevedercafe below the bridge makes optimal use of the space and offers its guests refreshments to the beautiful view.

A surrounding seating wall limits the open, elongated meadow space, the "Stretched Meadow", free space for informal play and stay alike. The meadow space is slightly modelled to create a slight even gradient towards the southwest, which allows the surface water discharged from the surrounding urban development to drain away. The precipitation water is collected and accumulated in front of the southern seat wall in shallow alternating wet, reed-covered infiltration swales and near-natural shallow water areas, in accordance with the stormwater concept (Büro Dreiseitl).

The "Belvedere" forms the prelude to the "Belt Walk" in the east: here, divided in half, it swings up as a bridge and, at the high point, opens up the view across the park to the city skyline with Marienburg Castle and, at the same time, opens up to the landscape to the east like a gate.

The tree population to the south of the campus (Eschenallee) and in the west and southwest of the park are supplemented by free groups of trees. Together they form the "active band" along the southern spatial boundary of the park. In the protection of the treetops and in clearings, small playing fields (table tennis, boules, children's play, volleyball) and recreational areas (picnics, barbecues) are provided.

In the north along the new residential development, the promenade is accompanied by a transparent row of trees. Here, the motif of the rows of fruit trees that repeatedly appear in the adjacent landscape is taken up.

In the west and southwest, a near-natural landscaped park with free groups of trees on a long grass meadow, which open up to the meadow space, is created in a sensitive addition to the old tree population and with the inclusion of the old park. Narrow paths lead through shady canopy spaces and along sunny wooded edges. A path accompanying children's play in the forest and meadow fringe invites even the smallest to explore.

The transition to the ZAE and student dormitory is legibly carved out as a step in elevation by the enclosing wall of the "Belt Walk" and an adjoining embankment.

The former "Tower" also serves as a vantage point in the new quarter.

Generous "city squares" form the urban entreés to the park along the circular path, accentuated in each case by a grove of trees with seating platforms. From here, narrow park paths connect the residential development in the north with the campus in the south.

The "Green Belt", which links the campus of the southern Hubland with the northern university area, is led northwards into the park. In the Central Area, the linkage area to the park, a water plaza will be developed to the south. A shallow water basin, also fed by the precipitation water from the new city quarters, with overflow into a channel at the foot of the basin, offers quality of stay and fun. Seating walls in the meadow area provide a connection to the district square to the north with a stage. A restaurant with beer garden/outdoor seating complements this important urban joint.

The existing terrace landscape with its valuable old trees and imposing natural stone walls will be carefully developed as "terrace gardens", always in combination with thematically oriented rest and play areas ("Garden Oasis", "Play Worlds" and "Sensory Garden"), as near-natural, tree-lined park spaces.

Soft, water-bound paths lead visitors along the walls, allowing vantage points into the lower park. At the highest point of the terraces, a café with beer garden rewards the ascent. The urban quarters being created to the north and south have been taken over accordingly from the Hubland framework plan.

The Rottendorfer Strasse is underlined in its importance as the main transport link for cars, buses and the new quarters to Würzburg's city centre by a striking row of street trees. The footpath and cycle path connections are provided in accordance with the framework plan.