Großer Tiergarten

For the locality, see Tiergarten.

Großer Tiergarten in the centre, with the narrow long Kleiner Tiergarten at the upper edge.

A park map of 1835 drawn by Peter Joseph Lenné

The Großer Tiergarten, simply known as Tiergarten, is an urban public park of Germany located in the middle of Berlin, completely in the homonymous locality. The park is of 210 hectares (520 acres); and among urban gardens of Germany, only the Englischer Garten of Munich (417 ha/1,030 acres) is larger.^[1]

History

Großer Tiergarten (literally in English: big animal garden) was originally a hunting reserve of the Prince-electors, then transformed, from 1830 by Peter Joseph Lenné, into a modern urban park. During the period 1961–1989 its eastern borders were crossed by the Berlin Wall. In the northerly neighbouring quarter of Moabit a much smaller park bears the same name, thus both are differentiated as Großer and Kleiner Tiergarten.

Tiergarten has around 210 Hectares and after Tempelhofer Tempelhofer Freiheit, it is the second biggest parkland in Berlin and the third biggest inner-city parkland in Germany.

Geography

The park is located on the northern and central side of Tiergarten Ortsteil and is bordered, on the northern side, by the river Spree. The little quarter Hansaviertel borders on it at the north-western side and the Zoological Garden is situated on the south-western side. The principal road is the Straße des 17. Juni which ends, in the east, at the Brandenburg Gate. Other main roads are the Altonaer Straße, Spreeweg and Hofjägerallee. In the middle of the park is the square named Großer Stern ("Great Star") with the Siegessäule (Victory column) located in its centre. In addition to the Brandenburg Gate, other notable buildings and structures located close to the park are the Soviet War Memorial, the Reichstag, the Bundestag (all in the eastern borders), the new central railway station (in the north) and, on the southeastern borders, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the central square of Potsdamer Platz.

Transport

The park is principally served by the S-Bahn at the rail stops of Berlin Tiergarten (situated at the western entrance on the Straße des 17. Juni) and Berlin Bellevue.

Photogallery

Panorama of the park from the top of the Siegessäule: Straße des 17. Juni (east), Hofjägerallee, Straße des 17. Juni (west), Altonaer Straße, Spreeweg

• 

  The "Neue Partie" pond

• 

  Natural environment at "Langgraswiese"

• 

  A small river in autumn

• 

  The Victory Column

See also

Siegessäule Großer Stern Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten

Tiergartenstraße Berlin Zoological Garden

References

1. ^ Information in English about the park on www.berlin.de

External links

Media related to Großer Tiergarten at Wikimedia Commons

• Großer Tiergarten page on www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de (German)

Coordinates: 52°31′N 013°22′E / 52.517°N 13.367°E / 52.517; 13.367