Goethepark, Public park in Wedding district of Berlin-Mitte, Germany.
Goethepark is a green space with walking paths and gardens, with a monument to the writer Goethe at its center. The entire area has multiple entry points and is laid out for walking and enjoying the grounds.
The site served as an artillery and cavalry training ground for the Prussian army through the 19th century before being laid out as a park from 1922 to 1924, planned by Berlin's garden director Albert Brodersen and executed by Wedding's district garden director Rudolf Germer. It opened on about 5 hectares of the former Plötzensee estate at the edge of the Jungfernheide dunes. After 1926 the northern expansion was built separately as Volkspark Rehberge, and the park was halved during that work.
The park's name pairs it with the older Schillerpark on the far side of Müllerstraße, so the two Wedding parks honour Goethe and Schiller across the same road. A stone monument in the southern lawn reproduces Goethe's death mask. Around 1930 city maps disagreed: one labelled the whole neighbouring park Goethepark, another only Volkspark Rehberge.
The park lies between Transvaalstraße and Seestraße; an outer path rings the landscaped grounds and links them to the adjacent Volkspark Rehberge and to the streets of the small housing estate on the eastern edge. Some paths climb to about eight metres above the park level, and in the north they form a sunken hollow-way, so expect uneven, sloping ground.
This park connects seamlessly with the neighboring Volkspark Rehberge, creating a large continuous green area together. Visitors often do not notice where one park ends and the other begins, so smoothly are they linked together.
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