Garden of Heavenly Peace in Bethmannpark

Would you like a little trip to China? With its water lily pond, old trees and curved pagodas, this garden is a real exotic among Frankfurt's green spaces.

Thick walls shield the grounds from noisy traffic, a small waterfall gurgles and Far Eastern plants sprawl around the bright green pond. In between you will find the zigzagging Jade Belt Bridge, pavilions with curved pagoda roofs and a stepped portal guarded by dragons.
The Garden of Heavenly Peace in Bethmannpark is an architectural and botanical gem. The name of the park was chosen to commemorate the massacre on Tiananmen Square and nothing was left to chance when the Chinese garden was built in the 1980s. Experts who had travelled here from the Middle Kingdom laid out the garden according to classical Far Eastern design principles; the building and plant material was imported from Asia in dozens of containers. Artificial hills, rocks and characters complement the ensemble of architecture, old trees and Far Eastern plants.