The tripto catalogue lists 29 gardens and parks – flower islands, Baroque gardens, landscape parks and large city parks. All are family-friendly, and many are free.
Mainau Island in Lake Constance near Konstanz is a flower island with a Baroque palace, an arboretum, a dahlia garden and a butterfly house; children up to 12 go free. Munich's English Garden covers 376 hectares with the Monopteros, the Chinese Tower and the Eisbach wave – open around the clock and free. In Hannover's Herrenhausen Gardens, the Great Fountain shoots 80 metres high, next to the Grotto by Niki de Saint Phalle. Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with the Hercules monument, cascades and free water features. In Hamburg, Planten un Blomen has a Japanese garden and free water-light concerts in summer, and Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld, the former airfield, offers more than 300 hectares of open space for skating and kite flying.
Most gardens and parks in the catalogue are in Berlin and Bavaria (six each), followed by Saxony. Munich has four.
In practice: allow two to four hours for a large park and half a day for Mainau. About half of the gardens are free; Mainau (€29.50 in summer, cheaper online) and the Herrenhausen Gardens (€10) charge. April to October is the most beautiful time, and the Bergpark water features only run in season.
Gardens & parks
Konstanz
Mainau Island in Lake Constance, part of the city of Konstanz, is Germany's famous "Flower Island" and one of the top day trips in the south of the country. Its roughly 111 acres (45 hectares) hold rose and dahlia gardens, an arboretum beg…
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Munich
The English Garden (Englischer Garten) in Munich is one of the largest urban parks in the world, covering 376 hectares (about 930 acres) between the old town and the Schwabing district. Locals come here to sunbathe on vast meadows, drink b…
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Hanover
The Herrenhausen Gardens (Herrenhäuser Gärten) in Hanover are among the most important historic gardens in Europe. Their centerpiece, the roughly 50-hectare (124-acre) Great Garden, is a perfectly symmetrical Baroque masterpiece of hedges,…
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Kassel
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel is Europe's largest hillside park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013. A giant copper Hercules statue crowns the hilltop, and below it a chain of cascades, waterfalls and a fountain more than 50 mete…
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Hamburg
Planten un Blomen is Hamburg's central city park, a free green space of about 47 hectares (116 acres) stretching from Dammtor station past the trade fair grounds to St. Pauli. The Low German name simply means "plants and flowers." With a J…
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Berlin
Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin is the former airfield of Tempelhof Airport, now one of the largest inner-city open spaces in the world. Locals come here to skate and cycle down old runways, fly kites, barbecue, and watch the sunset over more t…
Gardens & parks
Konstanz
Mainau Island in Lake Constance, part of the city of Konstanz, is Germany's famous "Flower Island" and one of the top day trips in the south of the country. Its roughly 111 acres (45 hectares) hold rose and dahlia gardens, an arboretum beg…
Gardens & parks
München
The English Garden (Englischer Garten) in Munich is one of the largest urban parks in the world, covering 376 hectares (about 930 acres) between the old town and the Schwabing district. Locals come here to sunbathe on vast meadows, drink b…
Gardens & parks
Hannover
The Herrenhausen Gardens (Herrenhäuser Gärten) in Hanover are among the most important historic gardens in Europe. Their centerpiece, the roughly 50-hectare (124-acre) Great Garden, is a perfectly symmetrical Baroque masterpiece of hedges,…
Gardens & parks
Berlin
Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin is the former airfield of Tempelhof Airport, now one of the largest inner-city open spaces in the world. Locals come here to skate and cycle down old runways, fly kites, barbecue, and watch the sunset over more t…
Gardens & parks
Kassel
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel is Europe's largest hillside park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013. A giant copper Hercules statue crowns the hilltop, and below it a chain of cascades, waterfalls and a fountain more than 50 mete…
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München
The Olympiapark in Munich, built for the 1972 Summer Olympics, is one of the city's most popular green spaces and a landmark of modern architecture. Its sweeping, transparent tent roof, a lake, a hill made from wartime rubble and wide lawn…
Gardens & parks
Hamburg
Planten un Blomen is Hamburg's central city park, a free green space of about 47 hectares (116 acres) stretching from Dammtor station past the trade fair grounds to St. Pauli. The Low German name simply means "plants and flowers." With a J…
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Bad Muskau
Muskau Park (Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau) in eastern Saxony is one of Europe's great English-style landscape gardens, and one of the few that spans two countries. Its roughly 830 hectares (2,050 acres) stretch across both banks of the Ne…
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Dresden
The Großer Garten (Great Garden) is Dresden's largest park, a Baroque landscape stretching almost 2 km (1.2 miles) just east of the Old Town. At its heart stands the Palais im Großen Garten, one of the city's earliest Baroque buildings, su…
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Frankfurt am Main
The Palmengarten in Frankfurt am Main is one of Germany's best-known botanical gardens and a green escape just outside the city center. Spread over about 19 hectares (47 acres), it shows around 9,000 plant species outdoors and in historic…
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Ludwigsburg
Blühendes Barock ("Baroque in Bloom") in Ludwigsburg is one of Germany's best-known garden shows, covering about 30 hectares (74 acres) around Ludwigsburg Residential Palace. Formal Baroque flower beds, English-style landscape gardens, a f…
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Berlin
The Berlin Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten Berlin) in the Dahlem district covers more than 43 hectares (about 106 acres) and grows around 22,000 plant species, making it one of the largest and most important botanical gardens in the w…
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Leipzig
The Leipzig University Botanical Garden is a calm green pocket close to the city center. On about 3.5 hectares you will find roughly 10,000 plant species, from medicinal herbs and water lilies to tropical greenhouse plants. If you are look…
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München
The Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg covers 21.2 hectares and is one of the larger botanical gardens in Germany. It lies just north of the Nymphenburg palace park and grows about 16,000 plant species, from alpine flowers and rhododendro…
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Erfurt
The egapark sits where Erfurt once kept its cannons: on the Cyriaksberg hill in the south-west of the city, around the former Cyriaksburg citadel. Today 36 hectares of themed gardens, seasonal flower beds and tropical plants grow here. In…
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Bayreuth
The Hermitage (Eremitage) on the eastern edge of Bayreuth is a park of about 52 hectares with palaces, grottoes and fountains. It reached its peak under Margravine Wilhelmine, who created one of the most unconventional Rococo gardens here:…
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Weinheim
In Germany you usually see giant sequoias as single specimens in a palace park. In the Weinheim Exotic Forest they grow as an entire forest, some now up to 60 m tall. This arboretum on the slope above the old town covers around 60 hectares…
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Wonsees
The Sanspareil Rock Garden (Felsengarten Sanspareil) in Wonsees, near Bayreuth in northern Bavaria, is one of the most unusual 18th-century gardens in Europe. Instead of clipped hedges and fountains, Margravine Wilhelmine of Bayreuth turne…
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Köln
Flora and the Botanical Garden in Cologne's Riehl district make up one of the city's loveliest free green spaces: a historic park with a grand festival hall, flower parterres and greenhouses, right beside Cologne Zoo. If you want a calm wa…
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Berlin
The Gardens of the World (Gärten der Welt) in Berlin take you on a botanical trip around the globe without leaving the city. In the eastern district of Marzahn you can wander through a Chinese garden with a lotus pond and pavilions, a tran…
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Berlin
Großer Tiergarten is a 210-hectare (about 520-acre) park in the heart of Berlin and one of the largest urban parks in Germany. Lakes, a rose garden, memorials, and open meadows lie between the Brandenburg Gate, the zoo, and the government…
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Hamburg
The Hamburg Stadtpark is a 148-hectare (366-acre) city park in the Winterhude district, north of the city center. It is Hamburg's big green escape, with a lake, a huge central meadow and a brick water tower that now houses a planetarium. I…
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München
The Hofgarten in Munich is a Renaissance garden right behind Odeonsplatz and one of the most pleasant green spaces in the old town. Laid out in the early 17th century, it is centered on the Diana Temple and framed by arcades and neat flowe…
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Berlin
Mauerpark (Wall Park) in Berlin lies on the former border strip between the districts of Prenzlauer Berg and Gesundbrunnen. Today it is a lively public park with grassy hills, a graffiti wall, and an amphitheater, famous for its Sunday fle…
Among others, Munich's English Garden, Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld, Planten un Blomen in Hamburg, the Großer Garten in Dresden and Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel, including its water features.
In the summer season adults pay €29.50 (€26.90 online), students €20, and children up to 12 go free. In the winter season from 19 October 2026, entry costs €14.
From this category, among others, Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel, Muskau Park in Bad Muskau and Wörlitz Park.
Updated: · Opening hours and prices can change — check the attraction page before you go.