Kennelgebiet, Public park in Braunschweig, Germany

The Kennelgebiet, also called Kennel or Kennelteiche, is a group of artificial ponds in the Oker floodplain south of the Eisenbüttel weir, west of the Oker opposite Schloss Richmond. Its two ponds were diked in 1883 for Brunswick's water supply; one now serves as an outdoor pool. The Spielmannsteich below the castle was dredged around 1960, and a columned temple was erected in 2000.

The area was laid out in the 18th century as part of Richmond Park, inspired by the English landscape garden tradition. The artificial basins were built in 1883 to supply water to Brunswick and only later became part of a leisure space.

The name Kennel derives from the old field name Papendieck or Papenbruch, referring to the marshy ground where the ponds now lie. The court gardener Johann Christian Burmester planned the transformation of these meadows into a pond landscape, sketched on a situation plan around 1850. The northern pond bank once held a bathing house built for the duke, and an island in the northern part of today's outdoor pool carried a boathouse landing and, around 1842, a bathing grotto.

The park is easy to reach on foot or by bike, and paths lead around the ponds, along the river, and through the wooded sections. The outdoor pool is only open in the warmer months, while the rest of the grounds can be visited year-round.

The railway embankments that frame parts of the park rise to nearly 66 feet (20 meters) in places, giving the ground an unexpected shape that is easy to miss if you follow only the main paths. On the southern edge, a curved bridge crosses the Oker and passes without much notice, even though it is one of the more unusual structures in the area.