Playground

Volkspark Raderthal

Laid out by Fritz Encke from 1922, this listed park features a natural theatre, reading garden and dance lawn — a landmark of social green space in Cologne's south.

Karl-Schwering-Platz

since 1925

An elongated green space in Cologne's Lindenthal district, designed in 1925 by garden director Fritz Encke – featuring a sunken garden, rose beds, water basins and a children's playground along the Lindenthal Canal.

Lortzingplatz

since 1908

A 2,300-square-metre garden square in the Lindenthal district, laid out by royal landscape architect Fritz Encke between 1906 and 1908 as a place of recreation for the residential quarter along Theresienstraße.

Max-Dietlein-Park

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A roughly 2.2-hectare park in the Altstadt-Süd next to St. Pantaleon – with an oval lawn, a large playground and trees protected as natural monuments.

Nippeser Tälchen

A green space in an ancient Rhine-arm hollow in Nippes – with a wide meadow, playground, boules court and dog run, where a fish lake and a pleasure garden once lay.

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Rheinpark

4.6(7,587)· Google

Riverside landscape park on former Prussian fortress grounds — host of the 1914 Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, listed as a heritage monument since 1989.

Theophanoplatz

since 1910

A small heritage-protected green space in Cologne's Zollstock district, laid out in 1910 by garden architect Fritz Encke and today also serving as a playground.

Vorgebirgsplatz

since 1911

A heritage-protected green space from 1911/12 in Zollstock, designed by garden architect Fritz Encke – today a playground with old trees and a boules court.