The park at Molsdorf Castle vividly embodies the transition from baroque garden to landscape park. The castle was acquired by Gustav Adolph Count von Gotter in 1733, who had the existing moated castle converted into a pleasure palace by the Saxon-Weimar court architect Krohne. Gotter also had a baroque garden laid out with a Hercules fountain, cascade, orangery, ornamental flowerbeds and rich sculptural decoration. Gotter had to sell the estate due to financial difficulties. The subsequent owners had the costly Baroque garden converted into a more easily maintained landscape park by the Gotha court gardener Johann Rudolph Eyserbeck.

The layout of the Baroque garden, which was one of the most artistically significant gardens in Thuringia at the time, can still be seen in the lawns today.