Prinzessinnengarten

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  View of the new "contact point" of the Prinzessinnengärten at the New St. Jacobi Cemetery .

• Robert Shaw from the Prinzessinnengärten stands in front of the café in the New St. Jacobi Cemetery.

The Prinzessinnengarten at the New St. Jacobi Cemetery in Berlin-Neukölln is a community garden that invites people to join in gardening and experience nature.

From a wasteland on Moritzplatz in Kreuzberg to a cemetery in Neukölln: the Prinzessinnengarten is a Berlin institution - and one of the few community gardens to have managed a move.

History of the Prinzessinnengarten

The Prinzessinnengarten was originally founded in 2009 as a mobile urban garden on an almost 6000 square meter brownfield site on Moritzplatz. In addition to countless raised beds, there were beehives, a garden café and a learning kitchen for processing the local harvest. Knowledge about participatory and sustainable urban design was imparted in workshops and networking meetings. After 10 years in Kreuzberg, a new location was sought and found at the New St. Jacobi Cemetery in Berlin-Neukölln.

Prinzessinnengarten Kollektiv Berlin

Since 2020, the Prinzessinnengarten Kollektiv Berlin has been implementing a new form of community garden in the middle of these 100-year-old premises and helping to preserve them as a public green space. The 7.5-hectare section of the New St. Jacobi Cemetery is once again used for communal gardening in raised beds.

Open gardening days, workshops and more

As part of open gardening days, workshops and lectures, interested people of all ages can participate in the design of the garden areas and gain experience in the ecological cultivation of plants. Old cultivation techniques and knowledge about biodiversity, urban ecology, climate adaptation, recycling and sustainable forms of urban living are taught. There are no private beds in the new Prinzessinnengarten. Everyone helps to build and maintain the entire garden.

Offener Garten Moritzplatz

Gardening also continues at Moritzplatz. The Offener Garten (open garden) on Moritzplatz in Kreuzberg is run as an inclusive community garden.

Information

• Address:
  Hermannstr. 99-105
  12051 Berlin–Neukölln
  City map
• Opening Hours: January 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; February 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; March 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; April 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; May to August 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; September 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; October 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; November 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; December 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; (as of March 2025)
• Website: prinzessinnengarten-kollektiv.net