Forstbaumschule, Public park in Duesternbrook, Kiel, Germany

Forstbaumschule is a large park with open meadows, varied tree specimens, and numerous pathways winding through its English landscape garden design. The grounds include a restaurant with beer garden, a concert shell, and several pavilion structures alongside the green spaces.

The Danish state minister Christian Detlev von Reventlow initiated the Royal Danish Forestry Institute in Kiel in 1785, and its first director August Christian Niemann laid out the one-hectare nursery in 1788 to train Jägerkorps members as foresters. Teaching ended in 1833 and the grounds ran as a commercial nursery; after the Second Schleswig War it passed to Prussian administration. Kiel bought the site in 1874 and leased it commercially, and it has been open to the public as a park since 1900.

The name comes from the tree nursery founded here in 1788. The restaurant building, erected 1904/05 under Harry Maasz on the site of the old forester's cottage, was known beyond the region in the 1920s and after the war for concerts and dances; the linden trees in front, the drinks pavilion and the concert shell are listed monuments.

The park lies on the west bank of the Kiel Fjord, reached via Düvelsbeker Weg in the city's north. It has been open to the public as a park since 1900 and covers nearly 13 hectares, with lawns and ponds added during the 20th century. The listed restaurant building, lime trees, drinks pavilion and concert shell stand within the grounds.

The park preserves several non-native tree species from its days as a training school, including a giant sequoia and North American oak varieties. These botanical rarities are reminders of its former educational purpose and remain uncommon tree stands in the region.