Englischer Garten

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Englischer Garten

The Englischer Garten is a large public park in the centre of Munich, Germany, stretching from the city centre to the northeastern city boundary. It was created in 1789 by Sir Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford and extended and improved by his successors.

With an area of 3.7 km2 the Englischer Garten is one of the world's largest urban public parks, larger than New York's Central Park but a little smaller than London's Richmond Park. The name refers to the style of gardening, as the term English garden is used outside of the English speaking world to refer to the style of informal landscape gardening which was popular in the United Kingdom from the mid 18th century to the early 19th century.

The English Garden was the first public urban park in Europe, is still one of the largest and was started in 1789 when the Bavarian ruler, Elector Carl Theodor, decided to turn his private hunting grounds on the Isar River into a open to the public park.
In the center of the park there is a lake, the Kleinhesseloher See with a large beer garden on the shore.

There are many paths winding all around the English Garden. In some areas there are three parallel paths, one for pedestrians only, one for pedestrians and cyclists and a third for horseback riding. There aren’t any paths in this park that are reserved for cyclists only, which makes cycling here a bit difficult on a nice Sunday afternoon when half the population is out walking.

At the south border of the park there is a stream named the Eisbach. Many years ago a dam was built on this stream to adjust the flow of water and prevent flooding. This produced a small stretch of artificial rapids where visitors can watch people surfing though it is extremely dangerous and totally illegal.

Gastehaus Englischer Garten, Hotel La Maison are some of the nearest hotels to find accommodation with prices starting from 110 euros.

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