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Baekepark
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Town: Berlin
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| Baekepark is a relatively small-sized park situated in Steglitz-Zehlendorf Berlin borough. Its 9 hectares cover the area next to the Steglitz harbour and since 1995 it is proclaimed a natural preserve region called Baeketal (Baeke valley). The entire park is crossed by a small river, a brook named Baeke that springs from the Fichtenberg hill in the same district and flows in the Teltowkanal. Before the canal was built, however, Baeke gathered the drained waters of the whole southern Berlin thus forming a valley with the help of its fast-flowing thawed waters. Once this water used to drive many windmills but nowadays, after the construction of the Teltowkanal, only one mill is preserved on the park’s premises at the bank of a former small feeder of Baeke. The mill does give a romantic flavour to the surrounding greenery with its large outside water wheel. In Baekepark one can also use t
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Biesdorf
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Town: Berlin
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| Located in the Berlin borough named Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Stadtpark (City Park) Biesdorf shouldn’t be mistaken with the no less attractive Schlosspark Biesdorf, that is adjacent to the Biesdorf castle in the same district. The city park is quite a new undertaking, its concept dating back from 2004. The building process started in September the same year and the inauguration took place in June 2005. Biesdorf is a small green space that aims to serve as a buffer between the busy marketplaces, the Old People Home 'Arno Philippsthal' on the North and the southern and eastern residential districts, where houses are planned to be built in due time. To serve the needs of all generations that are to meet in the park, the designers of Biesdorfer park divided it into four zones suitable for all ages. A children’s playground is to be developed and for the needs of the older people that live in the vicinit
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Botanische Garten
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Town: Berlin
Address: Königin-Luise-Strasse 6-8
Phone: +49 30 838 50 100
e-mail: zebgbm@bgbm.org
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Website: http://www.bgbm.org/
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| One of the world’s greatest botanical gardens, the Botanical Garden of Berlin is located in a Southwestern borough named Steglitz-Zehlendorf in the neighborhood of Dahlem. The Botanical Garden houses more than 200,000 plant species, both inside the numerous greenhouses and pavilions and out in the open air. Besides being a wonderful opportunity to get acquainted with plant taxonomy and species, the Botanical Garden also offers peace and quiet combined with weekly summer open-air concerts. Moreover, curious visitors have another chance to quench their thirst for knowledge by visiting the adjacent Botanical Museum and many other interesting structures located in its complex.
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Britzer Garten
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Town: Berlin
Address: Mohriner Allee
Phone: +49 30 700 90 60
e-mail: info@britzer-garten.de
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Price: 1 - 2 EUR
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| The Berlin borough Neukoelln takes pride in the picturesque green space that was created in the 1980s, that is during the separation of the city into Western and Eastern part. Opened in 1985, Britzer Garten served initially not only as a place for relaxation for the Berlin citizens but also as a Gardening exhibition area. The 90-hectare-large space provides a series of changing landscapes. Apart from the theme gardens, there are also wood-like spots, wide and comfortable lawns, hills and-valleys and even a nearly 10-hectare-large lake with a wonderful sandy beach adjacent to it. Britzer garden is a perfect place to spend your leisure time as it offers a wide range of activities form lying on the grass and enjoying nature, strolling along the serpentine alleys, jogging to swimming and water sports. Summertime attractions include music concerts and other events for Britzer Garden visitors. Oth
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Brixplatz
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Town: Berlin
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| Brixplatz, formerly known as Sachsenplatz, lies within the boundaries of the 4th Berlin district Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, taking up approximately 2 hectares of its territory. Brixplatz was conceived in 1909 filling up a gravel pit to its current form of a green space that is much more pleasant for the locals. The realisation of the plans, however, wasn't possible before the end of World War I when the park was finally established under the conduct of Charlottenburg’s chief gardener Erwin Barth. At this time the green platz (square) was named Sachsenplatz (Saxonia square - following the rule of naming the streets and squares after the former German kingdoms). Later on, in 1947, the park was renamed Brixplatz after Dr. Ernst Brix, a professor in Charlottenbug’s Technical University. With a difference of 14 metres in the altitude compared to the rest of the surrounding area, Brix
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Brosepark
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Town: Berlin
Address: Beuthstrasse
Phone: 4930902950 (Pankow author
e-mail: poststelle@ba-pankow.verwalt-berlin.de
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| One of the green spaces in the Berlin district Pankow is the Brosepark. This green area is approximately 4 hectares large with a great variety of rare trees some of which are declared natural monuments. The Brosepark was originally the garden adjacent to the summer house of the artist Palm. In 1789, the mansion was purchased by the banker Engel and a few decades later, in 1818 another banker, Christian Wilhelm Brose, bought the facility together with the additional constructions (a greenhouse and a small house) made by Engel. The new owner remodelled the garden much to its modern look, an English style garden with half-wood vision that gave it quite a romantic tone. To emphasise this atmosphere there were walls, ground lifting and other garden amenities all commissioned by Brose, who also became the patron of the park when the municipality bought it at the beginning of the 20th Century. Unfortu
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Glienicker Park
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Town: Berlin
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| The about 90-hectare Glienicker Park is situated in the south western Berlin borough Steglitz-Zehlendorf attracting visitors both with its natural and its historical charms. Listed as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site since 1990, this park was founded early in the 19th Century when chancellor von Handenberg purchased the land and commissioned the renowned garden architect Lenne to design it. As a result a lovely green space was arranged, featuring meadows combined with groves and intersected by serpentine alleys where the visitors could take a relaxing stroll. Glienicker park was later expanded to its present size and many buildings and other facilities were included such as the Castle, the new and the older bridges over the river Havel, a Greenhouse and also a Casino. The beauty of Glienicker park was affected by the World Wars but the immense post-war renovation programmes returned the
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Goerlitzer Park
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Town: Berlin
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| Originally a main railway station connecting Berlin with Cottbus and Goerlitz, nowadays the Goerlitzer Park provides the needed green resting space for the inhabitants of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough of Berlin. The park area that covers about 14 hectares is situated in the eastern part of Kreuzberg and features a swimming pool (Spreewaldbad), various interesting sculptures and a playground for the younger visitors of Goerlitzer Park. The spot where from 1865 until World War I, the important terminus stood got a status of a green space just at the end of the Cold War. The idea of creating a public park on the severely damaged by bombings and rail usage station lands emerged much earlier as this part of Berlin was particularly short of green areas where the locals could take a rest. In 1980, the construction process began with half a metre’s lowering and levelling the area but in 19
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