Englischer Garten is German for “English Garden”.  It is a large public park in the center of Munich that stretches from the center of the city to the northeast city limits. The garden was created in 1789 by Sir Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford and extended and improved by his successors like Reinhard von Werneck and Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell. These men had advised on the project from the beginning.

The garden takes up approximately 1.4 square miles and is one of the world’s largest urban public parks – even larger than Central Park in New York City. It is however smaller than London’s Richmond Park. The name refers to a style of gardening – an informal landscape gardening which was popular in the UK from the mid 18th century to the early 19th.