Darmstadt: Criticism of the closure of the orangery due to noise and garbage

• fromClaudia Kabel

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Because Darmstadt closes its orangery garden as a result of nightly parties from 11 p.m., the SPD accuses the city of surrendering to the party crowd. There is also criticism from a well-known resident.

Destroyed flower beds, littered areas and nocturnal music: Because the orangery garden in Darmstadt has recently become a meeting place for celebratory young people, the park has recently been closed between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.

The street workers sent out by the city were also unable to stop the bustle of up to 450 people. The SPD criticizes the closure and sees “a capitulation of the city”. The green-black magistrate had not even entered into dialogue with the young people. The city has not presented an overall concept for partiers – it is now closing meeting places for young people. The young people would use other rooms and create new problems for other residents.

But the city is resisting it. Every weekend, so-called VIPeers are out and about in the orangery to talk to the young people, the city said at the request of the Frankfurter Rundschau.

It is about the explanation of rules, mainly on the topics of noise and garbage. Displacement effects have not yet been identified. Youth department head Barbara Akdeniz (Greens) emphasized that it is not the job of the youth welfare office to “organize celebrations for young people that last all night”. Rather, they want to teach young people to act independently and to work together sensibly. That happens through street work. There are also leisure activities in the youth centers throughout the city.

Local residents, blogger and crime writer Christian Gude also consider the closure to be a surrender. There were always people there after 11 p.m. who behaved appropriately. Now everyone would be punished. “A robust appearance by the municipal law enforcement officers would be legitimate and useful,” says Gude. But it is not the uniformed people who fail here, but the public, who do not provide the law enforcement officers with more support and human resources so that they can take appropriate action if necessary.

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