Eilenriede
Coordinates: 52°23′16″N 9°46′10″E / 52.38778°N 9.76944°E
The Eilenriede is a 640-hectare (1,600-acre) inner-city park located within Hannover, Germany. It is one of Europe's largest urban parks, and is also known locally as "grüne Lunge" meaning "green lung". The connected forest area is one of the biggest inner-city forest areas in Europe.
In Germany, the Eilenriede park is part of a group of inner-city or city near forest areas, like the (6000 ha), the Dresden Heath (5900 ha), the Frankfurter Stadtwald (4800 ha) or the Berliner Grunewald (3000 ha). The Eilenriede is around the same size as the Stadtwald in Duisburg (600 ha) and is twice as big as Central Park (340 ha) in New York.
The park's name Eilenriede is translated in English as alder moor, describing the park as a marsh populated with alder trees.
Eilenriede encloses the south of the city from the northeast, east and southeast in form of the mirror-inverted letter C with a north-south extension of about 6 km. It reaches in the south west up to the Maschsee. The entire area is covered by an 130 kilometres (81 mi) long road network (80 km hiking, 38 km Bicycle, 11 km Riding).
Blossom carpet on the ground in April
Heiliger's well
Historical bath place Teufelsbad (also called Kopperloch) near Heiligers Brunnen
Widespread water area which can be seen in spring in the south of Eilenriede
The city forest offers a range of different possibilities in leisure activities, like:
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