It is about 2 kilometres (1 mi) from the city center and only 200 metres (656 ft) from the Rosental landscape park via Turmgutstrasse and the Parthe Bridge (Parthenbrücke).

The plot of land on which the building was constructed was created by merging two adjacent farms that belonged to Christiana Regina Richter (1724–1780), the owner's wife.

Due to the high contribution payments that Richter, as a wealthy citizen of Leipzig, had to make during the Seven Years' War, the interior work was delayed.

In 1832, the city council sold it to the Alvensleben family, from whom it passed in the next generation to the Leipzig merchant Christoph Georg Conrad Nitzsche.

Since 1 April 2021, the newly founded "Gohliser Schlösschen | Musenhof am Rosental gemeinnützige GmbH" has operated the palace complex.

[4] The aim is to preserve the culturally and historically significant building and the associated baroque garden in its original structure, in strict compliance with the heritage protection requirements.

Through culturally appealing and varied event formats, flexible space options and opening times tailored to needs, the cheerful mood and lightness of the Rococo is conveyed and the Gohlis Palace is developed into a center of social life and civic responsibility.

Above this rises a 36 metres (118 ft) tall tower-like structure, which is why the complex was previously called the Turmgut (Tower Manor).

Due to the long period of time between the construction and the interior work of the house, the latter is no longer characterized by Rococo, but rather by Classicism.