About 100 years ago, in 1898, the first park, the city park, was constructed on the damp valley of the mill island on the initiative of the mayor Paul Werner and the adornment association. The Amtsteich within the park was applied to fish farming as early as the end of the 16th century. From 1914 to 1935 a further development of the previously swampy area began. The design of the bank areas with the beautiful shrub plantations at the brook, close to the diesel-electric power station, was undertaken in 1954 at the exhibition "Greenery and flowers at Spree river".
Today the park appears to have returned to its former beauty from the time around 1900.