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An Enclosure for the Protection of Nature and the Safety of the Party Crowd
The Loveparade is currently planning a new and improved nature protection and safety con-cept, which is based on the construction of a wide fence at the outermost periphery of the Großer Tiergarten, the city’s largest green park, and a sophistcated system of reusable tins and bottles which will be sold with a deposit only (which will be refunded upon turning the bottle etc). „This enclosure will also take advantage of all natural or existing barriers such as building as the Technical University or the Bellevue Palace, but also rivers and canals like the river Spree“, said Ralf Regitz, General Manager of Planetcom GmbH. „A two meter high fence will then be erected between all natural barriers and thus protect the green areas of the Tiergarten. Taken together, the outer border of this enclosure will have an overall length of approximately eleven km, protecting the whole, huge area around the traditional parade grounds, the Strasse 17. Juni between Ernst-Reuter-Platz in the West and the Brandenburg Gate in the East. The fence elements will have a total length of 4.600 meters.“
The partying ravers can move freely in and out by using any street or major path leading into the Tiergarten. There will be a total of 50 wide entrance areas supervised by Loveparade security. The fence elements will be erected on July 7th and dismantled on July 13th; as both streets and paths will remain untouched, the construction will not interfere with the flowing traffic. The enclosure was suggested by the Loveparade Berlin and is currently under a joint and detailed review by the authorities reponsible, the Bezirksamt Mitte (the Magistrate of the Berlin City Bourough of Mitte) as well as the police. The total costs of the enclosure will be at 120,000 € and will be paid for by the Loveparade GmbH.
The new enclosure is designed to help realizing three goals: It will prevent that illegal mer-chants and promotion teams will get into the Tiergarten by using cars, trolleys and carts or bikes. They no longer can transport huge quantaties of merchandise into the Tiergarten or build secret, illegal storage areas in the greenery. In the past, it has been the illegal selling of beverages in tins and glass bottles as well as the illegal distribution of promotional items that was largely responsible for the garbage problem in the Tiergarten – and it has damaged the official sales of the official catering services. In 2003, all illegal dealers can now be denied access by security. In addition, the stream of visitors can now be directed much better onto the wide streets and paths: As only streets and paths are open at the outer limit of the pe-riphery, visitors can no longer run or walk directly through the green areas in order to reach the parade area itself but will rather use the paths and streets.
Finally, the Loveparade will once again improve its efforts in supporting the neighbouring residential areas in dealing with the Loveparade, primarily at the Hansaviertel, a city quarter northwest of the Tiergarten: In a joint project with local police and the neighborhoud’s citizen association, the Loveparade has envisioned a wholly new traffic concept for the Hansaviertel. In the past, camping or parking ravers have annoyed residents in this neighbourhood; this year, all streets will be re-assigned as no parking zones. Residents living in the area, how-ever, will receive special parking permits.
The new concept of the Loveparade will result in a further reduction in garbage, which is cur-rently at 200 gram per visitor, by comparison a very low amount (and 80 per cent of this mass is recycable material); it will protect the greenery of the Tiergarten even better und pro-vide more security both for visitors and Berliners.
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