[2] The Johannapark was created between 1858 and 1863 by the Leipzig entrepreneur and banker Wilhelm Theodor Seyfferth (1807-1881)[3] at his own expense and later donated to the city.

[5] Full of remorse, her father thought of leaving something to posterity that would have been in her interest: "The idea of establishing a foundation from a capital that had been earmarked for my deceased daughter, which would not only perpetuate her name, but also the prevailing direction of her character 'to make others happy', prompted me to accept to buy the meadow of the wife of Professor Schwägrichen at the Kuhstrang.

"Seyfferth acquired the Martorff meadow[6] on the banks of the Pleiße[7] and some adjoining areas and let them convert into a park in the style of English landscape gardens according to plans by Peter Joseph Lenné (1789–1866).

As is usual with Lenné, many exotic tree species were planted, giving the park the character of a botanical garden in places.

The stele made of black granite and green Saxon serpentinite is the work of the sculptor Klaus Friedrich Messerschmidt (* 1945).