Hirschgarten, Urban park and beer garden in Nymphenburg district, Munich, Germany

The Hirschgarten is a 40-hectare public park in Munich's Nymphenburg district, owned by the Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds. Its open grass clearings are framed by tree stands, some over 150 years old, with a straight tree-lined path and a fenced two-hectare enclosure for fallow deer and mouflon. The 1791 Jägerhaus, a long single-storey saddle-roof building with a raised central risalit, houses the park restaurant.

The Hirschgarten traces back to a pheasantry established in 1720. From 1767 hops were grown here for the electoral breweries, replaced in 1786 by 17,000 mulberry trees for an unprofitable silkworm venture. In 1780 Elector Karl Theodor had his chief huntsman Johann Theodor Freiherr von Waldkirch lay out a 131 Tagwerk (about 44.6 ha) hunting preserve for the nobility, fenced with 100 fallow and red deer released. The park was later opened to Munich's citizens, and the 1791 Jägerhaus became its first inn.

The beer garden seats about 8,000 people, and the Jägerhaus built in 1791 now houses the park restaurant. Since 1959 the Magdalenenfest has been held here for nine days in late July, two weeks before the Auer Jakobi-Dult, with rides, sausage grills and stalls selling pots, knives and belts; the fair is documented since 1728.

The park lies in Nymphenburg in western Munich, with the Steubenplatz stop (tram 16, 17, N17; bus 62, N43, N44) at its northeastern corner. Laim and Hirschgarten stations on the S-Bahn main line (S1, S2, S3, S4, S6, S8) are also within reach, and the Arnulfstraße runs along the northeast edge. Nymphenburg Palace is about one kilometre to the northwest.

Beneath the park's lawns lies a stormwater retention basin operated by Munich's city drainage authority, a piece of infrastructure hidden under the grass. The park also holds a two-hectare enclosure with fallow deer and mouflon, a remnant of the hunting ground laid out in 1780.