Diederichsenpark, park in Kiel

Diederichsenpark is a green space covering about 4.5 hectares (11 acres) in Kiel with many old trees and grassy areas. The site sits on high ground overlooking the Kiel Fjord and still shows the foundation walls of a former villa called Forsteck that stood until 1944.

The site belonged to a fruit tree nursery founded in 1784, whose trees were partly given away free to improve the local food supply. Heinrich Adolph Meyer and his wife Marie had Villa Forsteck built here between 1866 and 1868; it became a cultural meeting place. Heinrich Diederichsen bought the property in 1893 and remodelled it in 1905. The villa was destroyed by bombs on 25 August 1944, and the park was laid out in 1957.

The park is named after Heinrich Diederichsen (1865–1942), who bought the Villa Forsteck and its grounds in 1893 and rebuilt the house in 1905. A memorial plaque in the park honours him as the preserver of the Howaldtswerke in hard times and a benefactor of Kiel's economy and university, dated 1958. The villa itself, built 1866–1868 by Heinrich Adolph Meyer and his wife Marie, hosted Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Theodor Fontane and Klaus Groth.

The park is easy to access and invites walks in any season. There are benches for resting and open fields for picnics, with paths shaded by old trees throughout.

The park's memorial plaque honours Heinrich Diederichsen, who bought the villa and grounds in 1893 and rebuilt the house in 1905; it calls him the preserver of the Howaldtswerke in hard times and a benefactor of Kiel's economy and university. The villa itself was destroyed by bombs on 25 August 1944.