Keesscher Park

Keesscher Park is a cultural park in Markkleeberg that spans ten hectares and features artistic tree plantings, meadows, and a striking beech avenue with red-leafed beeches. The grounds are marked by a monumental neo-baroque Adlertor gate at the northern entrance, which at ten meters high is the largest of its kind in Saxony outside Dresden.

The site traces its origins back to the 13th century when it served as a manor estate. The Kees family purchased the property in 1861 and fundamentally transformed it with extensive garden design and new structures.

The park takes its name from the Kees family, who shaped the estate in the 19th century and turned it into a place of garden design. Visitors can see traces of this era in the planted green spaces and the thoughtful layout of the grounds today.

The park has two entrances: a northern one on Equipagenweg street and a southern one on Pfarrgasse near Cospudener Lake. Both access points make it easy to explore the ten-hectare grounds with various paths and green spaces.

The park contains a restored Orangerie building with a palm house and a historic ice cellar room accessed through an ornately neo-baroque decorated entrance. This rare combination of greenhouse and underground cooling chamber reflects the engineering innovations of the 19th century.