The forest park was created in the Blasewitz incorporated into Dresden in 1869, at a time when almost all the original forest plots were covered by the strong demand for land in the villa colonies elsewhere.
The high-ranking Saxonian ministerial official Arthur Willibald Königsheim (1816-1886), who had lived since 1863 in the still barely built Blasewitzer corridor, pursued the goal that large parts of the Tännicht should be excluded from the increasing land speculation and transformed into a forest park. Through the corporation "Waldparkgesellschaft", land was acquired on a large scale, the central part of which was to be designed into a forest park. However, the peripheral areas were to be parceled out as building land for a villa colony, which corresponded to the highest cultural demands of the time. With the sale of the plots, the design of the park was financed. Their planning was carried out by the royal court gardener Hermann Sigismund Neumann (1823-1880), who also designed the gardens of Schloss Albrechtsberg. Neumann's design of the forest park was honored at the International Horticultural Exhibition in Hamburg in 1870 as the "most beautiful, best-conceived and executed garden plan".
