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Meyers Park

Meyers Park

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Meyers Park

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Location: Hamburg, Germany

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1. Moorburger Hinterdeich – Altenwerder Container Terminal loop from Heimfeld (TU Hamburg)

18.8km

04:53

120m

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Harburger Berge Scenic Trail – Beech forest in Hamburg loop from Heimfeld (TU Hamburg)

10.6km

02:49

110m

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Meyers Park – Ponyhof Meyers Park loop from Bostelbek

4.74km

01:15

50m

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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May 18, 2017

One of the most beautiful parks in Hamburg. The park in English style was originally the private garden of the Meyer family.

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JR56

November 2, 2019

The history of Meyers Park is closely linked to walking sticks.

This doesn't necessarily have anything to do with a hike through the Harburg Forest Park, but rather with its namesake, Heinrich Christian Meyer.

His father of the same name once owned a factory for walking sticks, caned chairs, and rattan, which made him Hamburg's first major industrialist. At the time, the company was one of the city's most well-known and progressive. Meyer had modest beginnings. His father, a carpenter who had immigrated from Hamburg, ran a small workshop for walking sticks. And even at the age of eight, Meyer had a special talent for skillfully promoting his father's wares on the street, so much so that he was soon nicknamed "Stockmeyer" by the townspeople. In 1816, at the age of 19, he finally founded his own workshop and, within two decades, transformed a tiny business into a large and modern factory for the time, the "H. C. Meyer Jr." company.
He was also committed to improving Hamburg's economic structure, and thus, for example, he helped develop Grasbrook and Hammerbrook, two large, unused areas outside the city's actual fortifications. Furthermore, as the founding director of the "Hamburg-Bergedorf Railway Company," he significantly helped modernize the city's water supply.

After Meyer's death in the mid-19th century, his son, Heinrich Christian Meyer, took over the entire company and relocated it to Harburg, where the company had already purchased large tracts of land from the King of Hanover. Thus, the present-day Meyers Park had been in family ownership since 1864. Five years later, he had the so-called Villa Meyer built here in the style of Krupp's Villa Hügel. Today, this building is used by the Mariahilf Hospital as a reception and administration building. In 1906, Meyer's son had a country house built by the Hamburg architect Paul Schöss in the middle of the park, about 400 meters from his parents' house, today's "Waldhaus."
After World War II, Meyers Park became the property of the City of Hamburg
and is now a popular landscape conservation and recreation area
for the people of Harburg.

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Michael wandert 🏠

December 31, 2020

After the Second World War, Meyers Park came into the possession of the city of Hamburg and is now a popular landscape protection and recreational area for the Harburg population on the edge of the Harburg mountains. In the middle of it a large playground.

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Meyers Park

1. Moorburger Hinterdeich – Altenwerder Container Terminal loop from Heimfeld (TU Hamburg)

2. Harburger Berge Scenic Trail – Beech forest in Hamburg loop from Heimfeld (TU Hamburg)

3. Meyers Park – Ponyhof Meyers Park loop from Bostelbek

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