The city park invites you to rest and relax at any time of the year. Once laid out as a shooting ditch, it served as a cemetery from 1522 to 1904. After that it was redesigned as a park. Here, 2 works of sculpture in particular stand out. The Weißenfels cobbler boy - actually city boy. He got his name from the tradition of the shoemaker's craft, which is rooted here. The Novalis grave - a bust commemorates one of the most famous sons of Weißenfels, Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772-1801), better known as Novalis, who found his final resting place in the former cemetery at the age of barely 30. Only a few meters separate the last resting place of the Romantic Novalis from his former home in Klosterstraße, the Novalis House.