Lehnepark, Berlin, Public park in Tempelhof district, Berlin, Germany
Lehnepark is a public park in the Tempelhof district with open green areas and walking paths surrounding the Wilhelm Pond, which sits in a glacial depression left behind by ancient ice. The water body and surrounding terrain reflect the natural landscape formation from the ice age.
The park is named after the estate owner Wilhelm Lehne (1836–1910), who died in Tempelhof. It lies next to the village church of Tempelhof, where a settlement of the Knights Templar once stood; that settlement was destroyed in the Second World War. The cemetery beside the church survives.
The memorial stone for the 47 Berlin and Brandenburg victims of the 26 December 2004 Pacific tsunami stands in the churchyard of the Tempelhof village church, which borders the park. The cemetery itself survives from the Templar settlement destroyed in the Second World War.
The park connects to neighboring Alter Park, Franckepark, and Bosepark through a series of linked paths creating one large walking network. This makes the area ideal for a long walk or run across multiple parks without backtracking.
The Wilhelm Pond formed from a dead ice hole, much like Lake Klarensee in the adjacent Alter Park nearby. Both water bodies reveal how melting ice from the last ice age carved out these depressions in the landscape.
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