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| Type | Urban park |
| Location | Moabit, Berlin |
| Coordinates | 52°31′32″N13°20′46″E / 52.52556°N 13.34611°E |
| Area | 7 hectares (17 acres) |
| Created | 1655 |
| Open | Open year-round |
Kleiner Tiergarten ("Small Tiergarten") is a park in Moabit, Berlin, Germany.
The park is located in Moabit, a division of Mitte, the central borough of Berlin. It is bounded to the north by Turmstraße , Alt-Moabit to the south, Ottostraße to the west, and Wilsnacker Straße to the east. Stromstraße and Thusnelda-Allee pass through the park from north to south, as does line U9 of the Berlin U-Bahn; the subway station Turmstraße is also located adjacent to the park.
The park was once part of a much larger communally administered forest area called Jungfernheide. Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg annexed it as a counterpart to the much larger Großer Tiergarten as the city of Berlin grew and usurped the former hunting grounds. Since 1655, the park has been referred to as the Kleiner Tiergarten. In the year 1790, the park was replanted; further redesign took place in 1835 in connection with the newly built St. John's Church (Berlin) designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. After the city of Berlin took over the administration of the area in 1876, landscape architect and horticultural director Johann Heinrich Gustav Meyer redesigned the park to contain benches, lanterns, and a spring. The Heilandskirche was constructed from 1892-1894, designed by Friedrich Schulze facing Thusnelda-Allee.
The park was heavily damaged during World War II and was redesigned in 1960 by landscape architect Wilhelm Alverdes. Alverdes included the adjacent Ottopark in the plans and included a playground for children.
On 23 August 2019, former Chechen commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, who was a veteran of the Second Chechen War and had sought refuge in Germany in 2016, was shot and killed in Berlin. Khangoshvili had just left a local mosque where he regularly attended Friday prayers and was walking along a wooded path in Kleiner Tiergarten when a man rode up to him on a bicycle and shot him twice in the head [1] with a silenced gun. [2] The assassin was identified as 49 year-old Russian national Vadim Andreevich Krasikov by German police and was apprehended. [1] On 15 December 2021, a Berlin court found Vadim Krasikov guilty of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment without automatic parole. The court also determined that the murder was ordered by the Russian government as a "state-contracted killing". [3]
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Zelimkhan Sultanovich Khangoshvili was an ethnic Chechen born in Georgia who was a former platoon commander for the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria as a volunteer during the Second Chechen War, and a Georgian military officer during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. Later on, he allegedly turned into a useful source of information for the Georgian Intelligence Service by identifying Russian spies and jihadists operating on domestic and foreign soil to Georgian intelligence agents. Khangoshvili was considered a terrorist by the Government of the Russian Federation, the Federal Security Service, and wanted in Russia. On 23 August 2019, Khangoshvili was assassinated in Kleiner Tiergarten, a park in Berlin, by FSB operative Vadim Krasikov.
History of the Berliner Pferdebahnhof
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Vadim Nikolayevich Krasikov is a Russian security service hitman who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany for the killing of 40 year old Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin, Germany, on August 23, 2019. On August 1, 2024, he returned to Russia after a prisoner exchange between Russia and the West. One of the prisoners involved in the exchange for Krasikov, Ilya Yashin, would condemn the fact that he was specifically freed in exchange for him due to Krasikov originally being sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Khangoshvili.
