Jenischpark

Hamburg is home to a number of parks and gardens. Jenischpark, Hamburg is one such park which serves as a popular hangout of the local people of the city as well as the tourists on a tour to the place.

Jenischpark, Hamburg is a absolutely beautiful park near the river Elbe. You will find it designed in the style of English landscape parks of the 18th century. The Jenischpark, Hamburg was previously maintained by the Jenisch family after whom the park got its name. Visitors to this park had to pay an admission fee which was in turn donated to support the poverty stricken people of Hamburg.

Now there are two museums in the park: the Jenisch-House and the Ernst-Barlach-House. The Ernst-Barlach-House has wooden sculptures, bronze statues, pottery and etchings by the artist. It remains open from Tuesday to Sunday between 11am and 5pm.

The Jenischpark, Hamburg covers an area of 42·15 hectares. The park is characterized by broad expanses of meadow with clumps of trees and bushes. There is also an adjacent woodland. The entrance gate exhibits a baroque style.

The Jenischpark, Hamburg is divided into two with the river Flottbek flowing almost through the middle of the park. The wild, overgrown valley on either side is under conservation as a place of natural beauty and wild life.

The Jeneischpark, Hamburg is home to a number of protected species of animals and plants. The section adjacent to Baron-Voght-Straße is the most visited by the public. The magnificent, white Jenisch House, and the single-storey, flat-roofed Ernst Barlach House are located at this place.

At the Hochrad park entrance of the Jenischpark, Hamburg, there is a horticultural office beside which there is a formal garden with covered seating.
The view over the long meadow down the rippling river Elbe is magnificent. It is one of the oldest surviving landscape parks in Germany. There is a playing area for the children and a refreshment stall called the To’n Peerstall.
With a large number of deciduous trees, conifer trees, hornbeam and oak trees lining the western belt of Jenischpark, Hamburg it can really be a pleasant evening walk down the green pavements of the park. With an August canopy of Japanese Sophora japonica "Pendula" and blooming Cardamine pratensis, "lady's smock" in May, this place really soothes your eyes from the regular tangles of the electric wires of a humdrum city life.