Parks & Gardens

Garden dreams in Wernigerode

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Parks & Gardens

Want to walk through the Harz Mountains like Gulliver? This is possible in the miniature park ‘Kleiner Harz’ & Bürgerpark. Dreaming is allowed in the ‘Garden Dreams’ parks around Wernigerode Castle. Local animals can be visited during a walk with the whole family in the ‘Christianental’ wildlife park.

City trip or nature experience? If you're on holiday here, you don't have to choose, because Wernigerode is surrounded by nature and has plenty of green oases even in the town centre. Locals and visitors alike appreciate the numerous opportunities to unwind in parks, gardens and forests.

Bürgerpark Wernigerode

Theme gardens, viewing platform, playgrounds, park restaurant, ponds, ...

The Wernigerode Bürgerpark was created after the 2006 State Garden Show. The extensive grounds invite you to take a relaxing stroll along the banks of the pond through the themed gardens. Children can romp around on the various playgrounds while their parents relax in the park restaurant.

Now that's a good prospect.

Accessibility

The entire Bürgerpark is barrier-free. Wheelchair-accessible toilets are available. Handcarts and wheelchairs can be borrowed on site.

To the Bürgerpark

Miniature park ‘Kleiner Harz’

Experience the whole Harz Mountains in one hour.

Over 50 miniature buildings from all over the Harz Mountains. These include the Imperial Palace in Goslar, Wernigerode Castle®, the cathedral in Halberstadt, the small castle in Blankenburg, the collegiate church in Quedlinburg and many more. In between, the narrow-gauge railway puffs its way up to the station on the miniature chunk.

Walk through the Harz Mountains like Gulliver.

Accessibility

The entire miniature park is barrier-free. Wheelchair-accessible toilets are available. Handcarts and wheelchairs can be borrowed on site.

To the miniature park

Christianental Wildlife Park

On the trail of native animals

Family park with many native Harz animals, special botanical features such as the giant sequoia trees and a garden restaurant. An excursion destination for the whole family.

And don't forget: A photo on the bronze pig at the entrance to the wildlife park. A must for every visitor.

Accessibility

Large parts of the wildlife park are accessible for people with walking disabilities and wheelchair users. There are easy to moderate gradients to overcome.

To the wildlife park

Garden dreams

A dream of gardens in Wernigerode

Garden dream parks in Wernigerode - these include the terraced gardens at Wernigerode Castle®, the pleasure garden at the foot of the castle and the princely zoo surrounding the castle.

Accessibility

The Great Palace Terrace and the pleasure garden are largely wheelchair-accessible. The Wine Terrace is only accessible via steps. The paths in the Tiergarten are quite steep in places and are not wheelchair-accessible.

Terraced gardens
The large open-air terrace in front of the castle entrance is a popular vantage point. From the large castle terrace, you can look out over the town of Wernigerode and the Harz Mountains with their highest peak, the Brocken. The terrace is characterised by several fortified towers, a pergola and flowerbeds. The wine terrace slightly below was once used for growing grapes and flowers. The current appearance of the wine terrace is characterised by the grotto with the ‘Wild Harz Man’ and a pergola with a water basin.
Pleasure garden
From a Renaissance garden from the 16th century, the park was transformed into a Baroque garden by Count Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode in the 18th century. The enclosing wall with the Lion Gate, a partially restored avenue of lime trees and the chestnut grove as well as the orangery can still be found in today's pleasure garden from this period. The building is now used by the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives. From 1830, the pleasure garden was redesigned into an English landscape park with the many foreign trees and shrubs typical of this style. The old trees in the pleasure garden make it a popular recreational area for the people of Wernigerode and their guests. A playground invites all families with children.
Zoo
The oldest part of the Gartenträume Park ensemble in Wernigerode is the zoo around the castle. First mentioned in 1435 as ‘Deirgarden’, it was located in the area of today's Agnesberg above the castle hill. The zoo was fenced in with palisades in 1568. Game was kept in the area for the count's hunt. Today's ‘sentimental landscape park’ with its extensive system of paths, buildings and memorial stones is used as a recreational area close to the city centre.

In Saxony-Anhalt, over 50 different parks have joined together to form the ‘Gartenträume’ network.

The non-profit organisation ‘Gartenträume - Historische Parks in Sachsen-Anhalt e. V.’ is responsible for the implementation, further development and safeguarding of the state's Gartenträume initiative.

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