Period
27 April to 14 October
Exhibition space
More than 75 hectares
Exhibition areas
Gera Hofwiesenpark: approx. 30 hectares of exhibition
space
Neue Landschaft Ronneburg: approx. 45 hectares of exhibition space
Planners/Architects/Companies
a lot of planning agencies and engineering
companies as well as
numerous other companies from Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Berlin,
Baden-Württemberg
Earth masses moved
total: approx. 920,000 cubic metres
Gera
Hofwiesenpark: approx. 70,000 cubic metres
Neue Landschaft Ronneburg: approx.
850,000 cubic metres
Trees planted
Gera Hofwiesenpark: approx. 430 deciduous trees
Neue
Landschaft Ronneburg: approx. 1,000 deciduous/non-deciduous trees, 148 fruit
trees, approx. 4,960 reforestation trees
Perennials
Gera Hofwiesenpark: approx. 60,000 plants
Neue Landschaft
Ronneburg: approx. 50,000 plant |
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Horticultural and
structural highlights
Neue Landschaft Ronneburg
Large Arboretum
tree
collection with specimens from the northern hemisphere,
area: 50,000 sq m,
approx. 410 trees
Lichtenberger Kanten
3 terraces, approx. 1km long, 187 common oaks
Rose Garden
10,000
floribunda with 261 varieties, 70 of them new;
accompanying plants: 1,500
Genista (broom, gorse), 12,700 shrub willows, 17,000 ground-cover roses, 2,300
bush roses
Small Worlds
horticultural/architectural representation of 12 characteristic
landscapes of Thuringia, total area: 7,776 sq m
Discovery Tower
23m
high viewing and climbing tower, copy of a bismuth pit head frame, 8 climbing
routes of various alpine degrees of difficulty – also with overhang, viewing
platform at 20 metres.
Gera
Hofwiesenpark
Play Oval
approx.
5,000 sq m; play equipment designers transform the ideas of Gera schoolchildren
regarding the “Giant Bird World“ into reality; the playground is designed to
invite children to play, to highlight nature and stimulate the
senses.
Activity Oval
18,000
sq m, with up to approx. 2,000 seats
Partnership
Gardens
Gera’s 12 twin towns will be presenting themselves with a
small garden area,
total area: 1,200 sq m
Arnhem (The Netherlands), Fort
Wayne (USA), Gorazde (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Kuopio (Finland), Nuremberg
(Germany), Plzen (Czech Republic), Pskow (Russia), Rostov-on-Don (Russia),
Saint-Denis (France), Skierniewice (Poland), Sliven (Bulgaria), Timisoara
(Romania)
Flower Parade
approx. 500m long ribbon of flowers from the main entrance to
the hall displays, with seasonally changing array of flowers.
Perennial plants
approx. 7,000 sq m, subdivided according to themes, amongst
them an iris garden that can once again be seen at a BUGA after a long
absence. |
