Rheinpark, Urban park in Deutz and Mülheim, Cologne, Germany
Rheinpark is a 40-hectare park on the right bank of the Rhine between Deutz and Mülheim. Its layout reflects the 1957 Bundesgartenschau redesign, with a rose garden, lawns, and a pond called Adenauerteich. The park includes the Tanzbrunnen open-air theater and the Claudius-Therme bath.
The park was first laid out by garden director Fritz Encke and opened in 1913, though the outbreak of World War I prevented its planned naming after Kaiser Wilhelm. It hosted the Cologne Werkbund Exhibition in 1914 and the Pressa in 1928, and was redesigned for the Bundesgartenschau of 1957, whose buildings largely shape the park today.
The park's name simply refers to its position on the Rhine. Its northern entrance is formed by the semicircle of the Staatenhaus, built for the foreign press at the 1928 Pressa exhibition, and the Rheinhallen with the Messeturm. The rose garden recalls Konrad Adenauer's hobby of rose growing, and the small pond behind it is named Adenauerteich after him.
The park stretches along the right bank of the Rhine between Deutz and Mülheim, with the exhibition halls and Messeturm by the northern entrance near the Auenweg. Paths run the length of the 40-hectare grounds, past the Rosengarten, the Adenauerteich pond and the Claudius-Therme bath.
The park's Tanzbrunnen open-air stage is not connected to the zoo by cable car; the cable car (Seilbahn) links the zoo on the left bank with the Deutz side of the Rhine, running above the river near the park. The Tanzbrunnen itself is a stage for concerts and shows within the park grounds.
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