The Großer Tiergarten, simply known as Tiergarten, is an urban public park of Germany located in the middle of Berlin, completely in the homonymous locality. The park is of 210 hectares; and among urban gardens of Germany, only the Englishe Garten of Munich (417 hectares) is larger .
The Tiergarten was originally an hunting reserve of the Prince-electors than transformed, from 1830 by Peter Joseph Lenné in a modern urban park. During the period 1961-1989 its eastern borders were crossed by the Berlin Wall.
The park is located in the northern and central side of Tiergarten Ortsteil and is bordered, in northern side, by the river Spree. The little quarter Hansaviertel borders with it at the nort-western side and the Zoological Garden is situate in the south-western side. The principal road is the Straße des 17. Juni which ends, in the east, at the Brandenburg Gate. Other main roads are the Altonaer Straße, Spreeweg and Hoflägerallee. The middle of the park is the square named Großer Stern with the Siegessäule (Victory column) located in its centre. Out of the Brandenburg Gate, other notable buildings and structures located close to the park are the Soviet War Memorial, the Reichstag, the Bundestag (all in the eastern borders), the new central railway station (in the north) and, in the southern borders, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the central square of Potsdamer Platz.
The park is principally served by the S-Bahn at the rail stops of Berlin Tiergarten (situated at western entrance on the Straße des 17. Juni) and Berlin Bellevue.
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