Grüttpark Lörrach, Public park in Lörrach, Germany
Grüttpark is a 51-hectare park in Lörrach, opened in 1983 after the Baden-Württemberg state garden show. The Wiesentalbrücke of the A 98 and a connecting road split it into two sections linked by a footbridge and a pedestrian and bicycle underpass. Large parts are a water protection area with deep wells, and the near-natural watercourses and their banks are legally protected biotopes.
The name Grütt comes from rütten, meaning to clear: the floodplain forest here was cut down, and the Wiese meandered through the meadow in many side channels. Johann Gottfried Tulla straightened the river between 1806 and 1823, turning the floodplain into meadows and farmland. From 1920 to 1921 a small airfield with passenger and mail traffic stood at the edge of today's park; a 1988 memorial by the north-west edge recalls it and a 1925 crash. The park itself opened with the 1983 Landesgartenschau.
The name Grütt comes from rütten, meaning to clear, recalling the cleared alluvial forest of the Wiese floodplain. A memorial at the park's north-western edge, inaugurated on 10 October 1988 by defence minister Manfred Wörner, commemorates the Lörrach airfield that operated here from November 1920 to July 1921 and the pilot who died in a crash on 7 January 1925.
The park is split into two sections by the Wiesentalbrücke of the A 98 and a link road to the B 317; a footbridge and a pedestrian and bicycle underpass connect them. Playgrounds, sports fields, barbecue areas, a café and walking and cycling paths lie within the grounds, with the Grüttpark Stadium and exhibition halls at the edge. Large parts are a water protection area with deep wells.
The first deep well in the Grütt began operating in 1968, after water mains had been laid in advance; the area between Brombach and the town centre has supplied Lörrach's drinking water since 1967. The near-natural standing waters and their bank vegetation are legally protected biotopes.
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