Preußenpark

Since the 1990s, the park has become known as a meeting place for Thais and East Asians who host markets and festivities during the summer months.

Around 1910, based on designs by the architect Otto Herrnring, a toilet house was built on the western edge of the park on Brandenburgische Straße, which has survived and is now a listed building.

[4] After the town hall plans north of Fehrbelliner Platz were abandoned, the area was integrated into the park.

The oval of the large lawn, which still exists today, was joined by a broad axis to the south that led centrally to Fehrbelliner Platz.

[10] In 1936, the Free State of Prussia donated to the city of Berlin the sculpture Borussia, which had been created by the sculptor Reinhold Begas in 1855.

This shows the personification of Prussia in the form of a female figure with helmet, armor, sword and flowing robe.

[11] On the lawn is a birdbath with duck, created by sculptor Rudolf Leptien in the 1950s from shell limestone.

They gather here in fine weather to meet friends and acquaintances and sell home-prepared food.

This turned into a street food market that became known far beyond the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district and is now mentioned in travel guides.

[13] The sale and preparation of food is not allowed, so the official version is that Thai families picnic and visitors are kindly offered something.

During a raid three days later, police officers spoke to journalists of a misappropriation of the park, violations of the Green Spaces Protection Act and of food law, as well as of missing business licenses on the part of the vendors.