Wandsbeker Gehölz

Wandsbeker Gehölz is a 28.3-hectare public park located in the Hamburg districts of Marienthal and Wandsbek, in the Wandsbek borough. The roughly 2.8-kilometer-long and up to 400-meter-wide forest strip is a remnant of the former Wandsbeker estate grounds. The associated castle was built at the end of the 18th century by the merchant and slave trader Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann, who also redesigned the castle park. From 1766 to 1770, Schimmelmann created a pleasure garden here with a linden avenue. The linden avenue disappeared before World War II.