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The Garden Fair Kaiserslautern celebrates its 10th anniversary this season. On April 1 the park opened its doors and will stay open through Oct. 31.
Park highlights include special activities, concerts, exhibitions, dinosaurs and a variety of flowers.
A new event hall is just being built next to the entrance.
“The hall will be ready in June to be used for all kinds of events,” said Sandra Laux, the Gartenschau spokeswoman. “The first event will be an interactive exhibition on mathematics. Visitors can get involved in experiments.”
A special flower exhibition in the flower hall will remind visitors of the various tulips that were presented in 2007 at the garden fair. The exhibition will present tulips in orange, red, blue and purple until April 18. The next flower exhibition from April 24 to May 16 will display flowers for the wedding day. Every two weeks, new flowers and plants will be arranged in the flower hall to match a theme.
A Gartenschau birthday party is scheduled for April 18. The Gartenschau Queen Jenny II will greet about 50 other princesses and queens to celebrate the blooming tulips.
The anniversary event will include musical entertainment by the Herry Schmitt Duo performing on the open-air stage. After the Royal Highnesses arrives in carriages, they will be available for photographs and autographs. In honor of the tulips, food specialties from the Netherlands, the main producing country of tulips, will be served, including fish brötchen, poffertjes (little pancakes), cheese and much more.
Other attractions include the dinosaur exhibition and fossil world. Visitors can admire about 80 dinosaurs in Neumühlepark. The fossil world, featuring eight original, precious and unique fossils, which are evidence of their presence on all continents, is located in the Gartenschau store near the entrance. Visitors can also take a walk in the Biblical, farmers’ and Japanese gardens.
Guided tours of the area are available for five to 30 people and cost €40. Guided tours of the vineyards, willow chapel, Biblical Garden and the pharmaceutical garden with herbs, spices and medical plants are free.
“The live and constantly growing willow chapel is unique within Southwest Germany,” Mrs. Laux said. Worship services are offered on weekends.
“Interested couples even can get married in the willow chapel,” said Sissi Kösling, from the German-American Community Office in Kaiserslautern. For a wedding ceremony for up to 100 people, a fee of €200 is charged. This includes the admission fee. Christening ceremonies cost €100.
“We are happy to help (find) a chaplain or priest if needed,” Mrs. Kösling said. “For their celebration, they can use the restaurant up there or arrange for a picnic.”
Children can enjoy the variety of playgrounds, a skate rink, soccer field, beach volleyball field, miniature golf, playing castle and a pirate ship in Neumühlepark.
Daily admission times are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays and during German school breaks.
Daily tickets cost €6 for adults and €3 for children. The evening tickets after 5 p.m. are half-price.
Customers of the Kaiserslautern technical works, TWK, and the gas company, Gasanstalt, can obtain reduced season tickets for families for €15. TWK and Gasanstalt have sent out information letters to their customers.
For more information, visit www.gartenschau-kl.de or call 0631-71007-00. For details on getting married or christened in the willow chapel, call GACO at 0631-36330-14 or e-mail info@gaco-kl.de.
