Eilenriede


The Eilenriede is a municipal forest in Hannover, Germany. It is the largest urban city forest in Germany, and also one of the largest in Europe. The Eilenriede is nearly twice the size of Central Park. The biggest German urban "park" in the strict sense of the word, however, is the Englischer Garten München, with "only".

Size comparison

In Germany, the Eilenriede park is part of a group of inner-city or city near forest areas, like the Rostock Heath, the Dresden Heath, the Frankfurter Stadtwald or the Berliner Grunewald. The Eilenriede is around the same size as the Stadtwald in Duisburg and is twice as big as Central Park in New York.

Name

The park's name Eilenriede is translated in English as alder moor, describing the park as a marsh populated with alder trees.

Location

Eilenriede encloses the south of the city from the northeast, east and southeast in form of the mirror-inverted letter C with a north-south extension of about 6 km. It reaches in the south west up to the Maschsee. The entire area is covered by an long road network.

Activities

The city forest offers a range of different possibilities in leisure activities, like: