Pfarrgarten Saxdorf, Garden and event venue in Uebigau-Wahrenbrück, Germany

Pfarrgarten Saxdorf covers about 4,000 square metres between the village church and the red brick parsonage built from 1896 to 1898. The artist Hanspeter Bethke and pastor Karl-Heinrich Zahn began reshaping the former kitchen garden in the late 1960s, starting with a dawn redwood that still stands. A gallery on the parish yard serves as an event pavilion, and a greenhouse shelters tender plants.

The site was originally a utility garden beside the church and was redesigned by an artist in the late 1960s. Since then it developed into a garden with diverse plant collections and a venue for cultural events.

Since the 1970s the garden and the neighbouring 13th-century village church have formed the centre of cultural life in Saxdorf. The "Saxdorfer Musiksommer" concert series has brought many well-known artists to the village, and a gallery on the rectory yard serves as an event pavilion.

The garden is open to visitors on specific days during the warmer months and offers various areas for walking and exploring. Comfortable shoes are recommended since paths lead through different sections of the site.

The garden's redesign began with a single tree: a dawn redwood (Metasequoia) planted by Hanspeter Bethke that still stands today. In GDR times rare plants often arrived only through personal contacts, and building material was sometimes taken from the local rubbish dump. Bethke summed up his planting method as "My eye is my plan."