Jardin de la Place de la République — Attraction in Strasbourg

Place de la République is a square (four sides of identical lengths) surrounding a circular public garden crossed by a north-west and a south-east axis. The area was originally occupied by a section of the city walls, which were demolished after the Franco-Prussian War. An ancient Jewish cemetery was located on grounds near to the river; it is assumed to be the place where the Jews of Strasbourg were burned at the stake in 1349.Place de la République was designed by architect Jean-Geoffroy Conrath (1824–1892) as the conspicuous and grandiose entrance of the "Neustadt" opposite the ancient Grande Île city center on the other side of the Ill. The layout and construction of the square began in 1880. It was then called Kaiserplatz ("Imperial Square" or "Emperor Square"). Ginkgo biloba trees, which were presented by Emperor Meiji of Japan to his German counterpart (either Wilhelm I or Wilhelm II, depending on the source), were planted in the central garden in the 1880s; those trees still stand today. Conversely, a purple beech and a fern-leaf beech, planted between 1883 and 1887, were felled by a storm in the night of the 19–20 June 2019. In the very centre of the square stands a War memorial statue by Léon-Ernest Drivier, inaugurated in 1936. It represents a mother holding two dead sons, alluding to the dual nature of Strasbourg's History between Germany and France. The memorial replaces an equestrian statue of Emperor Wilhelm I, commissioned in 1897, that stood on the square from...

This beautiful flowering roundabout has a monument that was erected in 1936 in memory of the city's children killed during the first world war which took place from 1914 to 1918. it was the first armed conflict to involve so many countries throughout the world. the human losses amounted to more than eight million dead and six million invalids

The Strasbourg war memorial was inaugurated on october 18, 1936 by the president of the republic albert lebrun. it bears the only inscription "to our dead" without mentioning the fatherland for which the soldiers fell. indeed, the region has been at the mercy of the wars sometimes German, sometimes French, and Alsatians have fallen in battle on both sides.

Many people sunbathe on the grass during the summer and there are lovely architectural buildings...

One of the "green lungs" of Strasbourg. In this open green "space", there are magnificent Magnolias, century-old trees and the Gingkos Bilobas full of mysteries: they were offered by the Japanese Emperor to William I or William II? Wikipedia as well as "monumentaltrees.com" mention the first while "strasbourg.eu" emphasizes the second. Another source confirms the complete absence of documents supporting either hypothesis (alsace-promenade.com) Only these Gingkos Bilobas know the truth. And they cannot tell us.

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