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School Garden in Altona Volkspark

School Garden in Altona Volkspark

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School Garden in Altona Volkspark

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JR56

July 7, 2020

In what is probably the most elaborately designed area of Altona Volkspark is the school garden, built around 1920 – a teaching and demonstration area for the natural history education of Altona's students. Adults have also always been able to learn a lot about professional horticulture here.

Originally, the school garden served as a place to cultivate visual aids for natural history and drawing classes. Altona schools also received their own garden sections to cultivate. This way, children were introduced to native plants. Display gardens and beds with culinary and medicinal plants, as well as an arboretum, an alpine garden, and a fruit-growing area were also located in the school garden.

The school building, designed by Tutenberg, was also available for use by all Altona schools for teaching and offered ample space for practical and artistic natural history classes. The first dahlias were planted in the Volkspark in 1920, in the adjacent experimental field of the German Dahlia Society, founded in 1897 in Berlin-Steglitz. In 1932, these magnificent flowers moved to the garden created especially for them at the corner of Luruper Chaussee and Stadionstraße, where they have been admired by hundreds of thousands of visitors every year since then.

When the school garden was built, seven model allotments were established, where adults could also learn proper gardening skills and thus – not insignificantly during the interwar years – gain valuable knowledge for self-sufficiency. Gardening is still practiced here today. The "Tutenberg Institute for Environmental Design" association has created planting beds here that can be cultivated communally or individually. The bees are also already there, and the first honey from our own beekeeping is welcome to be sampled – a genuine natural product from the Altona Volkspark.

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Rainer

June 22, 2015

Students used to lend a hand here
Perfect for chilling out

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Grete

October 30, 2022

Wonderful place to relax with the opportunity to have a coffee or homemade honey beer or just buy honey from Hamburg. The tenant of the kiosk is a beekeeper herself and has her bees not only in the Volkspark but in various parts of Hamburg.

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School Garden in Altona Volkspark

1. Playground on the Great Meadow – Forest Path in Volkspark loop from Ottensen

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