Volkspark Hasenheide

Volkspark Hasenheide
Aerial view
TypeUrban park
LocationNeukölln (quarter), Neukölln (borough), Berlin
Coordinates52°29′13″N 13°24′59″E / 52.48694°N 13.41639°E / 52.48694; 13.41639
Created1936-1939
StatusOpen year-round

The Volkspark Hasenheide is a park of around fifty hectares in the Berlin quarter of Neukölln on the border with Kreuzberg. The name of the park goes back to the use of the area as a rabbit enclosure from 1678. The Great Elector, Frederick William, hunted there.

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