Elbauenpark, Recreation park in Magdeburg, Germany
Elbauenpark is a roughly 100-hectare family and leisure park in northeastern Magdeburg, split into Kleiner Anger and Großer Anger by the Herrenkrugstraße and joined by a pedestrian bridge. Broad light-grey gravel paths form angular patterns and a grid of small plots, with lawns, a long narrow lake crossed by a wooden bridge, and a walled garden with red-brick paths.
The site originated from a Federal Garden Exhibition in 1999 and was built as a public space on former military grounds. This transformation marks an important repurposing of the area after the Cold War ended.
The park's open-air lake stage (Seebühne) seats 1,600 spectators and hosts events from April to October. Since 2016 it has been used for summer specials of the TV show "Grill den Henssler". The Love Music Festival, with rap and electro acts, has been held in the park since 2014.
Visitors can explore the site on foot, by rental Segway, rickshaw, or the Elbauen Express train, with parking spaces available near the main entrance. The grounds are well-connected with different pathways and easy to navigate.
The ElbauenZip zipline runs as a double cable from the top of the Millennium Tower, and the tower's exhibition covers 6,000 years of human history. The park also holds a butterfly house with 200 exotic butterflies and a 25-metre climbing rock, the Großer Angerfelsen.
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