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Bremen - Lindenhof

Lindenhof is a neighbourhood in the Bremen district Gröpelingen. With a size of about 74 ha and roughly 7.800 inhabitants, Lindenhof is one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in the city of Bremen. 

It comes with many social challenges as it is defined as an arrival city neighbourhood with a low social index score (low-income, low education status, many different nationalities and languages). Therefore, its main use is for housing, combined with some cultural, religious and educational infrastructure framed by the outskirts of the harbour, a big shopping mall and some small local commercial entities.   

The multidiversity of the district Gröpelingen accumulates in Lindenhof with a low urban/spatial quality and environmental challenges like high pollution, urban heat / very high degree of urban sealing and a lack of urban green supply.

Interventions

Hard Action: Reshaping Bürgermeister-Ehlers-Platz (Pilot 1): Improving the underused square to a multifunctional, climate-resilient, and nature-inclusive urban piazza by qualifying the existing green, planting trees, unsealing, enabling seepage, and developing a new framework of the square (preliminary planning status). 

Soft Action: Greening and unsealing initiative of private households: Information campaign on possibilities for private greening and public funding structures in combination with temporal spatial interventions (idea status)

Soft Action: Collective Activities to foster biodiversity in the neighbourhood like BioBlitz or collective seeding actions (idea status) 

Soft Action: Biodiversity baseline study (preliminary planning status) 

… more to come throughout the participation process.

Objectives & Expected Impact

  • Multilayered needs of the neighbourhood in a socially disadvantaged district are coming with high expectations on the impact of the pilot and/or project in general.
  • From an environmental and a climate justice perspective, urban green infrastructure has to improve (in quality and quantity) in the public and the private realm.
  • Private actors have to be motivated to unseal and green their properties.
  • Natural stepping stones have to be developed for more qualitative urban green spaces and biodiversity.
  • Public green has to be qualified under aspects of biodiversity and climate change.
  • Raising awareness for climate related topics and the loss of biodiversity, and its possibilities for public and private actors is central.