Rose Garden, Rose garden in Coburg, Germany.

The Rose Garden is a park in Coburg's Ketschenvorstadt, bounded by Ketschendorfer Strasse, Alexandrinenstrasse and Berliner Platz. It holds over 72 rose varieties, a palm house opened in 1984 with five aviaries, and the Sintflutbrunnen fountain moved to its south side in 1962. The Congress Centre, a glass building from 1962, stands at the north end.

Coburg bought the meadow called Zollbauernwiese from the ducal chamber in 1846 and planted it with shrubs and trees; the Alexandrinenstraße was laid out along its eastern edge in 1859. In 1906 the Sintflutbrunnen by Ferdinand Lepcke, a gift to Duke Carl Eduard, was placed on the ground. The garden was inaugurated on 23 May 1929 as the Rosengarten for the German Rose Show, which drew almost 200,000 visitors by October.

Two plaques in the garden commemorate Johann Strauss, who married in Coburg's town hall and remained a Coburg citizen until his death; the villa where he lived and worked stood on Alexandrinenstraße until 1988. The second plaque honours Julius Popp, the head teacher who drove the 1929 rose show and kept the garden running as a permanent exhibition until 1949.

The garden is free to enter and open throughout the day, while the attached palm house has varying hours depending on the season. It helps to allow plenty of time for strolling and to check the palm house seasonal schedule if you want to see tropical plants.

The Sintflutbrunnen was a gift from Coburg's citizens to Duke Carl Eduard, costing an estimated 30,000 marks, and was inaugurated on 12 November 1906. It stood in the garden's centre until 1962, when it was moved to the south side during a redesign. A plaque in the garden commemorates Julius Popp, the headteacher who drove the creation of the rose garden.