Brentanopark, Public park in Rödelheim, Germany
Brentanopark is a four-hectare green space along the Nidda River with wide pathways, open meadows, and varied tree species. Historic structures including a classical bathing house and a smaller building now used as a museum sit within the grounds.
A merchant named Georg Brentano acquired the land in 1808 and transformed the original country house garden into a designed park. Expansion work through 1823 established it as a major landscape garden in the region.
Georg Brentano's park hosted guests such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm and their painter brother Ludwig Emil Grimm, Marianne von Willemer, Adele Schopenhauer and Prince Pückler. The Petrihaus across the Nidda served Brentano as a retreat. The 1931 pavilion with rose garden, designed by Eugen Kaufmann for the Neues Frankfurt project, remains a landmark.
The nearest VgF bus stop is Alt-Rödelheim, served by lines 34 and 72, a few metres west of the park. Frankfurt-Rödelheim station, on S-Bahn lines S3 to S5, lies about 500 metres west of Brentanopark.
The roughly 260-year-old ginkgo is called the "Goethe-Ginkgo" because Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is said to have prized it; he was among the guests at Georg Brentano's estate. The park also holds a pedunculate oak measuring 6.84 m in girth at breast height in 2015.
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