Archivpark Nürnberg, Public park in Gärten hinter der Veste district, Nuremberg, Germany
Archivpark is a public green space in Nuremberg with maintained lawns, walking paths, and scattered seating throughout. The grounds include a large children's playground with equipment designed for younger visitors.
The garden belonged to merchant Georg Zacharias Platner before the Colleg-Gesellschaft, a merchants' society founded in 1781, bought it in 1859 as a summer retreat. The city of Nuremberg purchased the site on 1 March 1941 and turned the western part into a hospital garden and the eastern half into a public green space. The society dissolved in the 1950s and its building was demolished. The park was fully renovated in 2011–2012.
The park's nickname Colleggarten comes from the Colleg-Gesellschaft, a merchants' society founded in 1781 that met for sociable hours and bought the Platner garden in 1859 as a summer retreat for its members. The society dissolved in the 1950s, and the garden became a public green space. The Norisbrunnen in the northwest, donated by Kurt Klutentreter in 1994 and designed by Hanspeter Widrig, is a two-part bronze-cast figure with a fountain basin on a concrete structure.
The park lies between Archivstrasse and Pirckheimerstrasse, with a continuous wall and a parallel footpath with wooden benches along Archivstrasse. The central lawn and the playground in the southwest are reached by newly laid paths. The Norisbrunnen stands in the northwest corner.
The Norisbrunnen in the northwest corner was donated by Kurt Klutentreter in 1994 and designed by artist Hanspeter Widrig: a two-part bronze-cast figure with a fountain basin on a concrete structure. It was re-erected during the park's 2011–2012 renovation, which also added 33 trees and a continuous wall with wooden seating along Archivstraße.
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