Orleansplatz

[1] The front of Orleansplatz is marked by an elongated fountain which runs parallel to Orleansstraße.

This is a place for regular festivals and markets[2] - such as the original Hamburger Fisch Markt.

Starting from Orleansplatz, three streets like open up like "rays" into the so-called French Quarter, which owes its name to the fact that, after the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War (1870/1871), the city planners decided in 1872 to lay out the streets and squares here according to the French pattern and to have the streets run into squares in a star shape.

In addition, names were chosen for places where German armies won battles in the Franco-Prussian War - such as the Battle of Orléans (Département Loiret).

[4] Orleansplatz was once the site of the Glaspalastbrunnen (glass palace fountain), designed by August von Voit for the Glaspalast in 1853.