5 Paulo Mendes - 3 years ago
The Martin Luther King Park is a green area in the city of Frankfurt am Main in the German state of Hessen. The park, which was constructed from 1969 to 1971, is named after the US civil rights activist and Nobel laureate Martin Luther King, who was murdered in 1968. The park is located north of the settlement Frankfurt-Nordweststadt in the district of Niederursel.
Beginning in 1969, the Martin Luther King Park was created by Frankfurt-based US soldiers. According to a 2004 report of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, this happened because the city lacked the financial resources to set up the park. It was also the GIs who dedicated the park to the civil rights activists murdered the year before. In 2001, a memorial plaque for Martin Luther King was set up in the park.
In 1971, in the park in the clay pit of a former local brickyard, a 4,800 m² large, nature-designed pond was created. The shallow water between 50 and 80 cm is fed by groundwater. On its shore are, inter alia, a reed belt and willow trees (Salix). Other facilities in the park include an adventure playground, a streetball and basketball court, football field, sunbathing area, walking paths and a dog meadow.
Since 1996, the Martin-Luther-King-Park hosts an open-air festival every two years, run by the association Netzwerk Nordweststadt e. V. and the Diakonie Frankfurt.
