Elbauenpark
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The Elbauenpark is a family and leisure park in Magdeburg, capital city of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
The park area is about 100 hectares and consists of the parts Kleiner Anger and Großer Anger. The park areas are connected with a pedestrian bridge over the Herrenkrugstraße. The park has a total of four combined entrances and exits as well as three exits. According to the Stern magazine, the Elbauenpark is the best leisure attraction in Saxony-Anhalt.[1]
It was created on the occasion of the Bundesgartenschau 1999 in Magdeburg on the Cracauer Anger. In the north-eastern part of Magdeburg there used to be Wehrmacht barracks and shooting ramparts built in the 1930s. After the Second World War, the barracks were used by the western Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. A huge rubbish dump was created from the ruins of the war's destruction. Before the construction of the park all explosive ordnance, projectiles and countless rubble from the war had to be removed in order to realize this project. In just a few years, a park was created on this former field of war debris, attracting numerous visitors. From 1999 to the 2014 season, the Panoramabahn, an elevated monorail, ran 3 km through the park. It was dismantled at the beginning of 2015.
