In the course of the conversion of the Moritzburg Renaissance Castle into a Baroque hunting and pleasure castle, Augustus the Strong devoted himself to the castle park as one of the last of its projects. There were multiple projects for its design, which all followed the French layout plan that was fashionable then. After the Elector’s death in 1733, the plans remained largely unfinished. The current reconstruction of the plans after plans by the Saxon State Office for the Preservation of Monuments follows a draft dating from 1740.The former hunting lodge had had a walled-in animal garden already then, in the area adjoining to the west. In 1728, the castle park was created on the northern mainland in the extension of the axis of the alleyway coming up from Dresden. The U-shaped ground plan has a size of about 230 by 150 metres. Old garden plans and copper etchings show different planning versions, but the footprint had always largely been preserved.