Photo: parks and recreation, Lindenpark, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

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Lindenpark: Memento Mori

Parks and recreation

You can take a break from running around to the sights in a small park located in KTV (Kröpeliner Tor-Vorstadt) district. This place particularly wins favour for leisurely walks and reflections on life and death. It is not hard to guess, Lindenpark owes many linden trees for its name. Some of them were planted back in 1831, when this place was first opened in Rostock’s municipal cemetery.

Foreigners can hardly understand what considerations prompted the local authorities to open a public park on this site, but that is what happened in 1979. At the same time the Jewish part of the cemetery was restored in 1988 and exists to this day, although it is fenced off from the rest of the park. No more burials take place here, but the graves are kept in order. The main area is, however, now given over to the power of nature. Despite the ambiguous past, Lindenpark is loved by Rostock residents: parents come here to walk with children and elderly people come to sit on the benches in the shade of lime trees. In recent years, more runners can be seen in the alleys of the park. Lindenpark also attracts fans of geocaching -a tourism game, whose participants hide "small secrets" in different parts of the world and publish their special geographical position on the websites.

Lindenpark: Memento Mori

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