The prince was a known for his scandals and revolt against social norms, but as he once said:

"Wer mich ganz kennenlernen will,
muß meinen Garten kennen,
denn mein Garten ist mein Herz."

„Who desires to get to know me inside-out,
must learn about my garden,
as my garden is my heart."

In the mid 1840s, the prodigal prince went almost bankrupt and sold the park to Prince Frederik of the Netherlands. The new owner was also an advocate of his predecessors thought, and thanks to him the park areas were significantly expanded. The last pre-war owners of the park, the von Arnim counts, rendered the central part of the park a nature preserve.

Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler remained an eccentric till the very end. He had ordered for instance, that after death, his body was to be dissolved in acid and poured into a flowery pyramid in the gardens of the Branitz castle, only because cremation was legally forbidden. He died there on February the 4th, 1871, at the age of 86.

After 1945, the park was divided into the left-bank German part and the right-bank Polish part. On July 2nd, 2004, the Muskauer Park was entered into the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.

Currently, both parts of the park are connected by a border crossing and a wooden bridge on the Lusatian Neisse. In line with the concept of its creator, the left-bank portion of the park, now in Germany, is more developed while the right-bank, currently in Poland, is the landscape part of the park.

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