Volkspark Meußlitz, Urban park in Dresden, Germany

Volkspark Meußlitz is a 1.2-hectare park in Dresden-Meusslitz bounded by Struppener Strasse, Johannes-Brahms-Strasse, Bernard-Shaw-Strasse and Am Sand. A horseshoe-shaped path replaced the original winding walks in 1934. Among the trees are a cucumber magnolia and a Hagebuttenbirne, and a small fountain and a World War I memorial stand in the grounds.

A silk merchant named Ferdinand Wilhelm Bach created this place in 1828 as a private garden, bringing exotic trees through connections with Pillnitz Castle. It later became a public park for the city's residents.

The park is also known as Volkspark Zschachwitz because Meußlitz was incorporated into Zschachwitz in 1922. Its 1934 redesign as a Volkspark replaced the winding paths with a horseshoe-shaped circuit and added a memorial to the fallen of the First World War from Großzschachwitz, Meußlitz and Sporbitz, designed by Otto Schubert and executed by sculptor Richard Becher.

The park is bounded by Struppener Straße, Johannes-Brahms-Straße, Bernard-Shaw-Straße and Straße Am Sand, with entrances from these surrounding streets. A horseshoe-shaped loop path, laid out in 1934, now replaces the original winding garden paths. The former sports ground where tennis and winter ice skating took place lies outside today's park and is now a Kleingartensparte.

The garden's 1828 planting by silk merchant Ferdinand Wilhelm Bach survives in part: alongside the cucumber magnolia and the Hagebuttenbirne stand a copper beech, a hackberry and a sessile oak. Bach used his ties to Pillnitz Palace to obtain such rarities for his private landscape garden.