The park, named after the politician and women's rights activist Clara Zetkin (1857-1933), is located on the southwestern edge of the Stadtbezirk Mitte - about two kilometers (1.2 mi.)

[1] The Clara-Zetkin-Park is divided by the Elsterflutbett (the flood channel of the Elster) in an eastern and a western part which are connected by The Saxons' Bridge (Litt.

[2] The groundbreaking ceremony took place on 8 January 1955, and the park was inaugurated as early as 1 May 1955, which in the sense of the propaganda of the time was praised as "fulfillment of the electoral mandate to the Volkskammer deputy Paul Fröhlich (1913–1970 / First Secretary of the Bezirksleitung Leipzig of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany), which he had received from Leipzig workers".

These included an outdoor theater, a café, event pavilions, a large children's playground with a snack pavilion, the building of the Leipzig Chess Center,[4] the Dahlia Terrace, an open-air bowling alley and, at times, a training tower for GST parachutists.

In the summer months, the outdoor theater named Parkbühne is a special attraction for concerts and cinema performances and is also one of the open-air venues for the Wave-Gotik-Treffen.

[10] In addition to the runners on the park paths, the bituminized Anton-Bruckner-Allee is a favorite meeting place for inline skating.

Every year in January, the Leipzig Winter Marathon takes place in the Clara-Zetkin-Park and the neighboring forest area Die Nonne.