Treptower Park

With its location directly on the Spree, the old trees, the romantic gardens and the beautiful lawns, Treptower Park is one of the most beautiful public parks in Berlin. Here you can easily spend a whole day in the sun or stroll along the beautiful paths.

The 88.2 hectare park was laid out in 1876-1888. It is one of four parks in Berlin that have been preserved from the 19th century. The other three are the Volkspark Friedrichshain from 1846, the Volkspark Humboldthain from 1869 and the Viktoriapark from 1894. They were all created to offer the growing population of the city of Berlin sufficient local recreation areas. The Treptower Park is special in that it arose from the deforestation of the Köllnische Heide - i.e. the destruction of a local recreation area, of which only the Schlesische Busch and the Alte Treptower Park with an area of around 40 acres remained.

As a people's park, it was open to all citizens - an innovation for the time - and had a large playing and sports field in the middle in the form of a hippodrome, 250 meters long and 100 meters wide. An artificial pond, the carp pond, was created near the playground. This was used for fish farming at the beginning of the 20th century. Puschkinallee served as the central axis, which as a street with mighty plane trees still conveys an impression of that time.

The Soviet memorial was built after the Second World War on the central area of the former playground and sports field on the instructions of the Soviet military administration from 1946 to 1949 and occupies an area of around 100,000 m². The memorial is a memorial and a military cemetery of the Soviet war cemeteries and stands for the approximately 80,000 soldiers of the Red Army who fell in the Battle of Berlin in the final phase of World War II.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treptower_Park

A really quiet place in the winter calm of shipping. Otherwise extremely lively, especially on weekends.