Schrevenpark, park in Schreventeich, Germany
Schrevenpark is a green space park in the Schreventeich district of Kiel. The area features open grass fields, trees, and walking paths alongside the adjacent Schreventeich lake, which forms an important part of the landscape.
The park was laid out in 1901 to plans by city garden director Ferdinand Hurtzig (1872–1939) during Kiel's expansion around 1900, and was named Hohenzollernpark after the Hohenzollern dynasty. Heavily damaged in the war, it was rebuilt in simplified form, and on 17 December 1947 the city council renamed it Schrevenpark after the adjacent pond. The pond's name derives from the Low German "s grefens diek" (the count's pond), rendered as Schreventeich on Gustav Adolf von Varendorf's 1796 map.
The park lies east of the Westring ring road, with the Schreventeich pond at its eastern edge; the water cascade at the pond's southeast corner returns cooling water from the Humboldtstraße power plant. A small footbridge at the northeast end of the pond marks where water once flowed to the plant. The district is densely built with 3- to 5-storey blocks east of the Westring and low terraced houses to the west.
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