The city garden was created as a result of the "Oberrheinische Gewerbeausstellung" (Upper Rhine Industrial Exhibition*) of 1887, which had taken place on Karlsplatz, the former drill and measuring station. As late as 1887, the city gardener Schmöger was commissioned to design and build the something similar. The park was already completed and opened in 1888, and even charged an entry fee until 1911. The original features included an aquarium, music pavilion, fountain and a children’s playground. In addition to this, there was an enclosure with a Rhesus Monkey named Anne, which is now displayed in the . Starting from 1889, there were areas in the western Schlossberg which were created as a forest park. As a consequence of the First World War, the care was clearly neglected, though the terrain was redesigned from 1920 to 1924. Due to the air attack on the City ("Operation Tigerfish"), the concert hall and park were destroyed, and the park remained in this form. After the Second World War, the City Garden was restored. This began in 1948 with the filing of the bomb craters and the clearing of the paths; this partial reconstruction was part of the Baden Industry and Trade Exhibition (“Badische Industrie- und Gewerbeausstellung”). From 1952 on the park has been being wholly restored and even expanded northwards, taking in the area of the former festival hall. In 1967 its southern area was reduced to clear a space for the construction of the Leopoldring. Eventually, in the 1960s the cable car to the restaurant “Dattler” was built which was already planned before in 1914.