Louis-Häfliger-Park, Urban park in Oerlikon district, Zürich, Switzerland.
Louis-Häfliger-Park covers approximately 5,000 square meters in Zürich's Oerlikon district, featuring eight grass pyramids, toddler play areas, a blue sports pitch, and a wooden performance stage.
In 2000 Grün Stadt Zürich held a competition for the design, won by landscape architects Kuhn und Truninger with the project "Quilt". Construction began in 2002 and lasted ten months; the park was inaugurated on 30 August 2003. It occupies ground where Oerlikon Contraves ammunition laboratories once lay sunk in the earth.
The park is named after Louis Häfliger (1904–1993), a Swiss bank employee known as the "Saviour of Mauthausen". In May 1945 he ensured that around 40,000 prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp could be liberated.
The park remains open year-round without charge and connects easily via multiple tram and bus lines serving the Zürich-Oerlikon area, offering accessible pathways suitable for strollers.
The park design draws inspiration from patchwork quilts, with retention basins that reflect water during heavy rain due to high groundwater levels just 80 centimeters below ground.
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