It is bordered by the Elstermühlgraben (Elster mill ditch) to the south and west, the small river Parthe to the north and the Leipzig Zoo to the east.

His grandson Augustus II the Strong later contested this deal and accused the Leipzig council of having fraudulently obtained the contract.

The council was then forced to begin redesigning the Rosental at the end of November 1707 according to a plan by Johann Christoph von Naumann.

In 1714, the chronicler Johann Jacob Vogel wrote in the Leipzig Chronicon: “The Rosental has the name of charming, shady and fun walks, just as other fun and pleasant places bear the name of paradise, or like vineyards in Jena, on this side of the Saale river, which are called Rosenberge because of their charm.”In the Deutsches Wörterbuch (German dictionary) of the Brothers Grimm, the origin is assumed to be a Slavic word: "often as a place name.

The famous Rosenthal near Leipzig (see ALBRECHT 193b), however, a city forest, has nothing to do with rose, but is possibly a folk etymological distortion of the Slavic rozdot, hollow, deep and wide lowland.

"When I had grown out of the trivial school, I came across the modern [philosophers], and I remember that at the age of 15 I was wandering alone through a grove near Leipzig, called Rosendal, to decide whether I wanted to keep the Substantial Forms.

Since 2009, the annual open-air-concerts Klassik airleben of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra on the great meadow in the Rosental park attracted ten thousands of listeners every year.