The Eilenriede (literally 'alder marsh' in German, meaning 'marsh populated with alder trees') is a 640-hectare (1,600-acre) municipal forest in Hanover, Germany.

The biggest German urban park in the strict sense of the word, however, is the 375-hectare (930-acre) English Garden in Munich.

The Eilenriede is around the same size as the Stadtwald in Duisburg (600 hectares or 1,500 acres) and is nearly twice as large as Central Park (340 hectares or 840 acres) in New York.

Eilenriede encloses the south of the city roughly in the shape of a mirror-inverted letter 'C', extending about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from north to south.

The city forest offers a range of different possibilities in leisure activities, like: