Parks in Germany

Sanssouci () is a historical building in Potsdam, near Berlin. Built by Prussian King Frederick the Great as his summer palace, it is often counted among the German rivals of Versailles. While Sanssouci is in the more intimate Rococo style and is far smaller than its French Baroque counterpart, it is similarly notable for the numerous temples and follies in the surrounding park. The palace was designed and built by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff between 1745 and 1747 to meet Frederick's need for a private residence where he could escape the pomp and ceremony of the royal court. The palace's

landscape park with castle in Kassel, Germany

Babelsberg () is the largest quarter of Potsdam, the capital city of the German state of Brandenburg. The neighbourhood is named after a small hill on the Havel river. It is the location of Babelsberg Palace and Park, part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin UNESCO World Heritage Site, as well as Babelsberg Studio, a historical centre of the German film industry and the first large-scale movie studio in the world.

comprises three palaces in a grand baroque park in the village of Oberschleißheim near Munich, Bavaria, Germany

park in Munich, Germany

park in Duisburg, Germany

palace in Rheinsberg, Brandenburg, Germany

Baroque German Palace

park in Dresden, Germany

Landscaped park

castle in Germany

thumb|"Hunting in the Karlsaue" by Johann Heinrich Tischbein thumb|The Orangerie (Kassel)|Orangerie thumb|A canal in the park The Karlsaue () Park is a public and inner-city park of in Kassel (Northern Hesse, Germany). It was redesigned as a landscape garden in 1785 and consists of a mixture of visible Baroque garden elements and arranged “natural areas”.

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Castle in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony

park of Nymphenburg Palace in Munich

park in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

The Grugapark is a central park in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was first opened in 1929 as the first "Große Ruhrländische Gartenbau-Ausstellung". Adjacent to the Grugapark is the Grugahalle concert hall and the Messe Essen exhibition centre.

a small stately home on the Ilm in the Tiefurt quarter of Weimar, Thuringia, Germany

thumb|Central area of Nordsternpark Nordsternpark (lit. North Star Park) is a park in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. It is located on the compound of former mine of Zeche Nordstern. After the closure of the mine in 1993 the area was redeveloped. In 1997, the Bundesgartenschau (Federal Garden Exhibition) took place here.

thumb|Lakes in the urban area of Freiburg im Breisgau. Location of the Flückigersee (4) in the district of Freiburg The Flückigersee (, "Lake Flückiger") is a 10-hectare lake in the Freiburg district of Betzenhausen.

park in Coburg, Bavaria, Germany

park in Stuttgart, Germany

extensive green areas in Königsberg

manor in Potsdam, Brandenburg state, Germany

The Westfalenpark is a large public park in Dortmund, Germany. With an area of , the park is one of the largest inner-city parks in Europe and is a popular destination for excursions and recreation in North Rhine-Westphalia. The park is situated between the Westfalenstadion, Westfalenhallen, Bundesautobahn 40 and includes the Florianturm. The Emscher valley forms the southern border of the park.

thumb|The Park Café is open in summer The Grüneburgpark is a public park in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, located in the Westend quarter. It began as a park for the Grüne Burg (Green Castle), a castle from the 14th century. In 1789, the banker Peter Heinrich von Bethmann Metzler acquired the property, and had the park designed. In 1837, the property was bought by the Rothschild family, who erected a palace-like mansion in the style of a French Loire palace. They commissioned Heinrich Siesmayer to develop an English garden, completed in 1877. Under the Nazi regime, Albert von Goldschmidt-Rothschil

thumb|View from the North-East, off the Cologne Cable Car; visible are [[Messeturm Köln (top left) and Cologne Cathedral (center)]] thumb|Claudius Therme

English landscape garden in the southwestern outskirts of Berlin, Germany

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park in Ramersdorf-Perlach, Germany