Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park, Public park in Schöneberg, Berlin.
Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park covers 5.7 hectares between Potsdamer Straße and Elßholzstraße in Schöneberg. A curved paved path runs past a wooden slatted bench marked with stenciled blue numbers "13" on its backrest, with a black metal bench farther along. Low green hedges and a metal fence line the path, and large trees stand behind them. The neobaroque Kammergericht building borders the grounds.
In 1679 Johann Sigismund Elsholtz turned a hop garden at Schöneberg into a court and kitchen garden for the Great Elector Frederick William, after a bastion was built at the Lustgarten. The garden was first called "Botanical Garden" in 1718, and from 1801 a 7.5-hectare botanical garden with the Royal Botanical Museum occupied the site for over two hundred years. It was renamed Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park on 21 November 1911, the centenary of Kleist's death.
The park is named after Heinrich von Kleist, who died in 1811; it was renamed on 21 November 1911 for the centenary of his death. Since 2002 the annual concert series "Jazz an den Kolonnaden" has taken place here, following earlier summer jazz matinees. Across the Grunewaldstraße, the small Kurt-Hiller-Park, added at the end of 2000, honours the pacifist writer Kurt Hiller, described on the street sign as a co-founder of the homosexual civil rights movement.
The grounds are open daily and directly accessible through Kleistpark metro station, with multiple entrances from Potsdamer Street. Visitors should allow time to explore the different areas and pathways without rushing.
The park's oldest trees date from the Botanical Garden era, before the garden moved to Lichterfelde in 1899–1910. The adjacent Kurt-Hiller-Park, added at the end of 2000, honours the pacifist writer Kurt Hiller, whose street sign inscription calls him a co-founder of the homosexual civil rights movement.
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