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Potsdam (dpa / bb) - Green areas, fountains and playground with trampoline: the Potsdamer Brauhausberg is being redesigned around the former terrace restaurant and future art museum “Minsk”.
"Potsdam is getting a new entrance, a new entrance area," said Mayor Mike Schubert at the virtual presentation on Thursday.
"By doing without building mass, more greenery and a new, attractive town square, we have achieved the ideal case of what is called cautious urban development", promised Schubert.
In the coming months, a new town square with a promenade, fountain and playground is to be built on an area of 6000 square meters in the area between the blu sports and leisure pool and up the mountain to the future “Minsk” art museum, as the city announced. The first of three construction phases on Max-Planck-Straße should be completed in June. The design of the terraces is to begin in July. The area should be completed before the new art museum opens in spring 2022. Then you want to start the last phase of construction.
Initially, it was planned that the museum operated by the Hasso Plattner Foundation, in which the namesake and SAP co-founder primarily wants to present GDR art, would open in autumn.
But some construction stops had led to the delay, as Plattner said.
"There were dark days."
But now one is over the worst.
For the patron of the arts, the building, like the Barberini Museum he founded, is “more than just a backdrop”.
Plattner still left it open whether sculptures should also be placed outside the planned museum on the newly designed area.
In any case, there should be a large Christmas tree with colorful balls there in the coming winter.
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The redesign will cost a total of around four million euros.
Half of the money should be borne by the foundation and half by the state capital and the municipal utilities.
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Link to the video conference