Wandsbeker Gehölz, Public park in Marienthal district, Hamburg, Germany

Wandsbeker Gehölz is a 28.3-hectare public park in the Hamburg districts of Marienthal and Wandsbek. The wooded strip, about 2.8 kilometres long and up to 400 metres wide, is divided by the Hamburg–Lübeck railway and three roads into five separate sections. It is a remnant of the former Wandsbek estate grounds.

The Wandsbeker Gehölz is a remnant of the former Wandsbek estate. Its castle was built at the end of the 18th century by the merchant and slave trader Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann, who also redesigned the castle park. From 1766 to 1770 he laid out a pleasure garden with a lime avenue, which disappeared before the Second World War. In 1857 the merchant Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn bought the estate, parcelled it out and sold the first large plots near the castle for a villa colony modelled on English examples, today's Marienthal. When Carstenn also wanted to clear the woodland, the Wandsbek municipal administration decided to buy it.

The name Wandsbeker Gehölz refers to the wooded remnant of the former Wandsbek estate, not to a newspaper. A memorial stone for poet Matthias Claudius, erected in 1840 for his 100th birthday, stands in the First Gehölz; it bears the emblems of the Wandsbeker Bote newspaper and has been a protected monument since 1943.

The park has several playgrounds, sports fields with soccer goals, and many benches positioned near the water features for resting. Visitors should wear comfortable shoes, as paths go through damp areas and natural woodland ground.

The sandstone vase now at the south side of Wandsbeker Marktplatz once stood in the former castle park; it was moved there in 2005 when the square in front of the Christuskirche and the Schimmelmann mausoleum was redesigned, and the Wandsbeker Geschichtsstein took its place at the entrance to the First Gehölz.