Baurs Park, Public park in Blankenese, Germany

Baurs Park is a 15-hectare English landscape garden on the Elbe slope in Blankenese, laid out from 1805 to 1810 by Joseph Ramée for the Altona merchant Georg Friedrich Baur. Its sightlines and park buildings once included temples, a Chinese pagoda tower, a monopteros over a grotto and a cannon hill. The Katharinenhof manor house was built in the park between 1829 and 1836.

The Altona merchant Georg Friedrich Baur bought eleven plots on the Elbe slope in Blankenese between 1802 and 1817, including a house built in 1785 by the textile merchant Anton Friedrich Stuhlmann and the western part from the banker Salomon Heine. From 1805 to 1810 he had the 15-hectare estate laid out as an English landscape garden by Joseph Ramée, with sight axes, a Chinese pagoda tower, a monopteros over a grotto and a cannon hill. From 1829 to 1836 the Katharinenhof mansion was built in the park, where Baur received King Christian VIII and his queen after their coronation in 1840.

The park is named after the Altona merchant Georg Friedrich Baur, who had the grounds laid out from 1805. From the mid-19th century, despite private ownership, it was already open to the public at certain times. After the Baur family sold it in 1921, the city of Altona acquired it, and since 1939 it has belonged to the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

The park sits right along the riverbank and is easily reached from the Blankenese neighborhood, with entry points from different directions. Wear comfortable shoes since the paths can be uneven and the riverside areas are more natural in character.

On the artificial hill called Kanonenberg, 46 metres high, stood one of Blankenese's two lighthouses from 1983 to 2020. From this mound Baur's incoming ships were once greeted with cannon salutes; the park slope itself rises to about 54 metres.