Palaisgarten, Heritage park in Neustadt, Dresden, Germany

Palaisgarten is a garden in Dresden between the Marienbrücke, the Japanese Palace, the Neustädter Elbe bank and Palaisplatz. Since Carl Adolph Terscheck reshaped it between 1847 and 1852 it has been an English landscape garden, rounded off towards the Kleine Marienbrücke. Two plane trees planted around 1770–1780 still stand in it, and in the north-west a section of the green Altendresden ramparts survives.

Jakob Heinrich Graf von Flemming had the garden laid out in 1715 as a Baroque garden together with the later Japanese Palace. In 1718/1719 it was remade as a terraced garden for the wedding of the Saxon electoral prince Friedrich August II, decorated with sculptures by Pietro Balestra and Antonio Corradini. In the second half of the 18th century it became a kitchen garden of the court nursery, and Carl Adolph Terscheck turned it into an English landscape garden between 1847 and 1852.

From 2009 and again from 2011 until the coronavirus period, the Palaissommer ran here every year from mid-July to the end of August under the direction of Jörg Polenz, following the Pleinairs of 2005 and 2008. In 2021 it drew 83,000 visitors to piano concerts, choir and radio-play evenings, cinema, readings, poetry slams and yoga sessions, which alone counted 16,150 participants. Since 2022 the programme has been spread across the city; admission is free and it is funded by donations and sponsors.

The garden lies between Marienbrücke, the Japanese Palace, the Neustädter Elbufer and Palaisplatz, so it can be crossed on foot along the Elbe. A section of the green Altendresdner Wallanlagen survives in the north-western part; the two plane trees planted around 1770/1780 stand in the grounds.

Two plane trees planted around 1770–1780, when the garden served the court nursery, still stand in the Palaisgarten today. The over-life-size marble sculpture Sich befreien, made by Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf between 1987 and 1990, is also installed here.