Friedenspark, Public park in Leipzig, Germany

Friedenspark is a roughly 17.5-hectare park in Leipzig's Zentrum-Südost, bounded by Linnéstraße to the west and reaching from Ostplatz south to the Russian Memorial Church. Two north-south avenues cross the 600-metre-long, 300-metre-wide grounds; the former cemetery's north gate and one of its flanking officials' houses still stand. Lime and horse-chestnut rows frame the lawns, with birches, ashes, poplars and Swedish whitebeams among them.

The site was originally the Neue Johannisfriedhof cemetery, opened in 1846 and used for burials until 1950. A chapel and mortuary designed by architect Hugo Licht in 1881 once marked the grounds.

The park includes an Apothecary Garden displaying over 300 medicinal and poisonous plants that teach visitors about their properties and dangers. This section serves both researchers and curious visitors as a place to learn.

The park sits in southeast central Leipzig and is accessible from multiple sides, with Linnestrasse on the west serving as a main entry point. The flat ground and wide paths make walking easy for visitors of all mobility levels.

Since 2011, a memorial in the park's south commemorates over 100 children from the Paediatrics Department of the Dösen Asylum, buried anonymously in urns in sections V 2, 3 and 5 during the Nazi era. A winding path crosses a planting of quaking grass interspersed with ribbons bearing lines from a poem by Christine Lavant: "Das ist die Wiese Zittergras und das der Weg Lebwohl."