Cäcilienplatz

In the location's words:

Town square located to the west of Oldenburg's old town, bordered on all sides by streets, bordering the landscaped ramparts to the northeast and continuing there. As early as 1860, Hero Dietrich Hillerns envisioned a square at this location when first considering a new city district. The problematic terrain conditions and competing ideas for its use only made it possible to create an open square from 1880 onwards, which was designed as a strolling garden in the spirit of landscape gardening with lawns, curved paths, small groups of trees and lush ornamental beds. The square subsequently underwent several changes due to interim uses and was finally developed at the beginning of the 20th century into an inward-facing ornamental garden, leaving the framing large trees and shrubs in place, which was redesigned as a rest garden with an orthogonal structure in keeping with the times. Today, there is a large rectangular lawn lined with shrubs in the south-west of the grounds and a smaller-scale design in the style of a Baroque parterre in the north-east. To the south-east, south-west and north-west, the grounds are bordered by a densely planted border to the street, while the connection to the adjacent ramparts to the north-east remains open. The installation of monuments and sculptures finally gave the square additional features and appreciation: Bust of Karl Jaspers, 1983 by Christa Baumgärtel; Bust of Helene Lange, 1995 by Udo Reimann; Megalithic Stone, 1995 by Makoto Fujiwara and Karl Prantl.