Clara-Zetkin-Park (Leipzig)

Clara-Zetkin-Park
Statue of Clara Zetkin at the Johannapark (2010)
Type	Urban park
Location	Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Area	125 ha (310 acres)
Created	1955 (1955)
Open	all year round

The Clara-Zetkin-Park (colloquially Clara-Park) is a park in Leipzig. From 1955 until 2011 it was Leipzig's largest park with an area of 125 hectares (309 acres) and was called Zentraler Kulturpark Clara Zetkin (Clara Zetkin Central Culture Park). The name was changed in 2011 and since then the Johannapark and the Palmengarten have officially been considered independent parks (previously they belonged to the Clara Zetkin Central Culture Park).

Since 2011, only the previous Scheibenholzpark and König-Albert-Park (named after Albert of Saxony) are called Clara-Zetkin-Park. The park, named after the politician and women's rights activist Clara Zetkin (1857-1933), is located on the southwestern edge of the Stadtbezirk Mitte - about two kilometers (1.2 mi.) southwest of the city center on the edge of the Musikviertel. The park represents the connection between the northern and southern parts of the Leipzig Riverside Forest.^[1]

The Clara-Zetkin-Park is divided by the Elsterflutbett (the flood channel of the Elster) in an eastern and a western part which are connected by The Saxons' Bridge (Litt.: Sachsenbrücke).