New playground for a historic old town

The small town of Beeskow has a very special charm due to its medieval architecture and attracts many visitors with cultural and diverse offers in the historic old town and the medieval castle.

In order to further enhance public space, Beeskow planned to redesign an old park. The transformation of the "Froebel Park" was particularly extensive due to the location on an old city wall and required close cooperation with the monument protection authority.
The square was intended to show parallels to the medieval history of the city and become a meeting place for all ages.
The addition of a large playground to the event is due to the Beeskower Family Alliance, which did a significant groundwork with a working group. Together with the open space and landscape planning office EDEL-PROJEKT GbR they brought in ideas and suggestions for the planning of the large play area.
We won the competition for the design of the playground and were commissioned with the further planning and implementation of a 520 m² playground.

In the foreground of the complex are elongated balancing and climbing routes with play and slide towers.
Stylized ornaments and roof shapes, as well as characteristic paintings (for example, as old masonry of field stones) reflect the theme of "castle" on the bones again. Children of all ages will find here various balancing and climbing opportunities, which have been matched to their respective abilities and assigned to different difficulty levels and fall heights.
Centrally located is a marketplace with two stalls and a stylized oven. These are equipped with carved ornaments, which stimulate the role play. Matching to the theme is on the court or a cart with a horse as a draft animal. As a meeting place for young people, a youth seat was built on a nearby bike course. Different sitting and leaning options can be used for "chilling" and "lounging".

The color design of the entire play area was rather restrained, only discreetly picking up on the theme and blends harmoniously into the environment.
Despite the partially clearly developed forms of the objects, the design leaves room for their own interpretations and promotes children's imagination and creative thinking.

On the International Children's Day, the district town of Beeskow (Oder-Spree district) celebrated the opening of its new playground with many children from the area.