Neuer Rebstockpark, Urban park in Bockenheim district, Frankfurt, Germany
Neuer Rebstockpark is a 7.5-hectare public park opened in 2005 in Frankfurt's Bockenheim district, laid out on strictly straight lines. Its plan draws on Peter Eisenman's award-winning concept, developed with landscape architects Robert Hanna and Laurie Olin. A grid of paths forms parallelograms, and a 400-metre grassed trench, about 10 metres wide and 2 to 3 metres deep, runs east-west as the central axis, bounded by a slope and stepped gabions.
The site is named after the Rebstock family, Frankfurt patricians first documented with a Rebstock farm in 1300; in the 14th century it passed to cathedral canon Wicker Frosch. Zeppelins LZ 5 and LZ 6 landed here during the 1909 International Aviation Exhibition, and from 1912 the airship harbour am Rebstock operated Frankfurt's first airport. After 1945 a gravel pit became the 1962 Rebstockpark, while this ground held a 6,500-space trade-fair car park until its conversion, opened in 2005.
The name comes from the Rebstock family, medieval Frankfurt patricians who owned the estate; a Rebstockhof is first documented in 1300, and in the 14th century the land passed to the cathedral canon Wicker Frosch. The park's grid of straight paths forming parallelograms echoes the layout of the neighbouring Rebstock housing estate.
The park lies southwest of Bockenheim, between the Rebstock residential quarter to the north and the Messe car parks to the south, with the Rebstockbad swimming pool bordering it to the west. The 400-metre trench is freely accessible and can be entered; several "bastions"—raised platforms above its northern bank—give views onto the grassed floor. Paths run along both sides of the trench and continue across it on footbridges.
The park's planting follows a grid: single trees stand closer together toward the northern housing estate, and the tree stock of the former 6,500-space trade-fair car park was kept. Prairie perennials along the paths came from the green department's pilot project "Stauden im öffentlichen Grün".
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