Leimbach Park

The Leimbach Park (German: Leimbachpark or Park am Leimbach) is a linear park and 100-year flood prevention scheme opened in October 2016 in Wiesloch, Germany. It is part of a larger ecological enhancement of the River Leimbach. The park follows the River Leimbach downstream from Wiesloch to a larger 1.4-hectare (3.5-acre) area just north of Wiesloch-Walldorf station, part of the former Tonwaren-Industrie Wiesloch brickworks.

The narrow-gauge railway track of the Wiesloch Feldbahn and Industrial Museum reaches the Landratsamt district government office on the north edge of the park.

The park is section 2 of a larger three-section construction package on the upper Leimbach. In 2010, along with urban development in South-Walldorf, the park design won a "Landscape in Motion" award in a competition run by Rhine-Neckar Regional Association (Verband Region Rhein-Neckar) under their "Rhine-Neckar Regional Park" concept. It was recognised again in the 2012 Landscape in Motion awards, in connection to the Leimbach Route.

The former railway lift bridge forms the north edge of the park and the border between section 1 and section 2, while the "In den Weinäckern" road bridge forms the south edge of the park and the border between section 2 and section 3. These three sections are themselves part of Measure 3 of the flood control works along the upper Leimbach. The tendered construction works for the parks included 12,000 cubic metres of earth-moving, placement of 200 tonnes of stone/gravel, 2,000 square-metres of road construction, 90 cubic metres of reinforced concrete, and creation of a simple Aluminium cycle path and footbridge to replace the two larger bridges being removed.

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