Buchhügel open space development concept
24.02.2015 – The Buchhügel area, which is bordered by Goerdelerstraße, Oberer Grenzstraße, the outskirts of Tempelsee, Rheinstraße and Rhönstraße, is home to a wide range of different interests. The aim of the development concept for the Buchhügel is to bring these interests together in a compatible manner. The interests for the structural use of the Buchhügel are concentrated on its northern area, bounded by Buchhügelallee and its extension to Hölderlinstraße.
In contrast, the southern Buchhügel is an important landscape area on the edge of Offenbach's city center. It is of great importance for the leisure activities of the city's population, for the protection of species and biotopes and for the urban climate and should therefore be kept free of development in the future. Its potential as a natural and recreational area has not yet been fully exploited. For example, there is a lack of traffic-free cycle and footpaths, public green spaces with recreational areas and areas for the protection, maintenance and development of nature and the landscape.
Key measures
These existing potentials of the southern Buchhügel are strengthened with the open space development concept through the following planning objectives and measures:
- Relocation of the Buchhügelgraben and development of a near-natural water system of Buchhügelgraben and Hainbach with a generous floodplain
- Networking of the inner-city green spaces in Hainbachtal, Puteauxpromenade and Amerikawald through native woodland structures appropriate to the location
- Development of a network of cycle and footpaths with links to the "Green Ring from the Main to the Main" (part of the "Regional Park Route"), the industrial railway path, the Puteauxpromenade and the network of paths in the Amerikawald forest
- Safeguarding and spatial concentration of recreational and commercial horticultural and agricultural use
- Integrating the Buchhügel into the landscape by creating a clear edge to the north of Buchhügelallee
- Reorganization of traffic relations on the Buchhügel and restriction of through traffic
Realization
The realization of the goals of the open space development concept is being successively advanced with the processing of development plans and object planning. The following have already been/are being successfully implemented
- the relocation of the Buchhügelgraben ditch from the adjacent allotment gardens to the south to the open floodplain of the Buchhügel and its near-natural design through site-appropriate planting; from the end of January 2007, the Hainbach will be designed in a near-natural way, thus completing the renaturalized water system
- the establishment and initial expansion of the "Weather Park": The attractiveness of the Buchhügel recreational area is further enhanced by the construction of illustrative objects for observing, explaining and understanding weather phenomena
- the construction of a cycle and footpath along the ditch from Rheinstrasse to Obere Grenzstrasse and individual recreational areas; the path is part of the "green ring from the Main to the Main"
- the relocation of allotment gardeners from the Odenwaldring allotment association from the former Lohwald area to Buchhügel
- the routing of a public cycle and footpath from the animal shelter to Buchhügelallee. In addition to private allotment gardens, this path also borders the school garden of the Käthe Kollwitz School, which offers craft and educational courses here in particular