- Grünanlage Rosenthal.
- Year 1888.
- March and April.
- Walks in the period when composing Symphony No. 1.
- Described by Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921).
- Near 1887-1888 House Gustav Mahler Leipzig – Gustav Adolfstrasse No. 12.
The current park-like design experienced the Rosental by the garden artist Rudolph Siebeck from 1837. An irregular network of paths and replanting took the park its strict outline.
In the northwest of the Rosental is an artificial hill. Between 1887 and 1896, 120,000 m³ (60,000 horse-drawn bills) of domestic waste were heaped up to the 20-meter-high Rosental hill (“Scherbelberg”). This was greened in 1895 and built in 1896 with a 15 m high wooden lookout tower designed by Hugo Licht. The tower burned down in the wake of the heavy bombing on 4 December 1943 completely.
The origin of the name Rosental is still unclear. 1714 wrote the chronicler Johann Jacob Vogel in the Leipzig Chronicon: “The Rosental has the name of graceful, shady, and merry walks, just as otherwise amusing and agreeable words owe the name of Paradise, or like vineyards to Jena, on this side of the Saalestromes, for the grace that is called Rosenberge.”
In the German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm the origin is assumed in a Slavic word: “Often as a place name. The famous Rosenthal near Leipzig (see ALBRECHT 193b), meanwhile, a city estate, has nothing to do with rose, but is possibly a folklike-ethnological distortion of the slav. rozdot, hollow, deep and wide low. “