Görlitzer Park

Leave your cares behind and explore the urban-rural dynamic perfectly expressed in Goerlitzer Park. A long and narrow park full of children playing, musicians entertaining, and city dwellers chilling, it is enhanced by the backdrop of African pot dealers who soon become part of the wallpaper in this mosaic of urban living. On one side, there is the untamed nature of a pond nestled within epic forestry. On the other, the bohemian shanty town where fire smoke can be smelled year-round. With a preschool nearby and restaurants and cafes surrounding it, Goerlitzer Park is a hidden gem in Kreuzberg, a perfect place to walk or cycle around with a friend, or just chill over beer while a street accordionist entertains you in classic European style. An experience not to be missed!

on a Sunday sunny afternoon in Kreuzberg, Görlitzer Park. This is the place where everybody hangs around to chatt, play and feel good. in summer you can dance and listen to the nice music. in the nice bar around, edelweis, you can have some drinks and sit on the terrace. there you have the perfect view on all the normal and strange people passing by. This is the right place to be on a sunday in Berlin.

This is THE place where we all meet, it is always a good reason to go to Gorlitzer Park: did you have a exhausting job day? Was is too difficult german today? Are you feeling boring? Do you feel sad? gorlitzer park is waitting for you for a quick picnic, a hang out with friends, playing some music or just laying out like you were around the forest. Not to noisy, not too calm, but always with enough place for people to get around and maybe why not do a grill

Yesterday me and my friends spent great day at gorlitzer park but also on the big event in Berlin which call my fest. There were many concerts, music from whole world, people from ewerywhere. It was so good to see how people from Berlin have a fun. Even you can think that how you can celebrate labour day, it's so communistic event and remainds you not good times. But my answer is- YES, YOU CAN. You just have to go and see what's happend yesterday when streets were full of diffrent people, no place in underground etc. And after go to relax at gorlitzer park, have barbecue with friends, drink some beer and forget that you have to go to work tomorrow. Just enjoy Berlin :)

Görlitzer Park in Kreuzberg is well known as one of two parks central to Berlin's drug trade, the other being Volkspark Hasenheide in Neukölln. The moment you set foot in Görlitzer Park, you will be approached by drug dealers asking if you want to buy marijuana, cocaine, or ecstasy. It's a lot like the Las Vegas strip, but located in a beautiful park and with many, many more drug dealers. Whether you can tolerate the drug trade will determine whether you will enjoy this park. If the drug dealers put you off, nearby Treptower Park is much prettier and cleaner-cut, and there are dozens of good options all around Berlin for places to enjoy the fresh air. But, don't let the drug dealers turn you away from the whole experience. First of all, Görlitzer Park is much safer than any park you could buy drugs in in America. During the daytime, there are lots of people around, and the police raid the park regularly (I would venture to say at least several times a week). Görli, as it is affectionately called by Berliners, is one of my favorite parks in Berlin exactly for its bizarre denizens. In a quick walk through the park, you'll see pregnant women, geriatrics, young families, hipsters, business- men and women, hippies, and, of course, dealers. It's a strange and interesting mix, and it's a large part of what gives the park its flair. Inside Görli's walls, you can relax and catch some sun on the remnants of an old train station, which is now a terraced set of concrete steps. The steps are a great place to post up and have a couple of beers with your friends and serve as an excellent vantage point to watch all the strange goings-on that undoubtedly occur at any given moment. Across the way, there is a coffee shop with tasty, inexpensive coffee right next door to blacklit, glow-in-the-dark miniature golf. In the neighborhood surrounding, you can find indoor swimming as well as a number of solid, hole-in-the-wall restaurants. The population of Kreuzberg is primarily Turkish-German, so you can expect to find a lot of interesting and delicious turkish food (e.g., köfte, döner, dürüm). Under no circumstance should you try the currywurst stand under the Görlitzer Bahnhof train station, though. I have it on good authority that it's the worst currywurst available city-wide. All that said, I would be remiss if I did not mention that the park is dangerous at night. In the day time, you will definitely be safe if you mind your own business. In fact, most of the time, nothing remotely dangerous will happen. However, I have witnessed a fight over racial comments between opposing gangs of drug dealers. At that point, I simply did the sensible thing and left the park without problem. Just don't touch any garbage and you should be fine. The dealers hide their wares in garbage--especially black, plastic bags and old styrofoam containers from fast food. If you just want a bit of sunshine and fresh air, Görlitzer Park may be too much hassle and you would be better served with a park closer to your hostel or apartment. But, then, where else could you see a hippy riding a unicycle past a cocaine deal?