Paradeplatz (Königsberg)

[1][2] King Frederick William I of Prussia (reigned 1713 to 1740), nicknamed the "Soldier-King", used the garden as a training ground for drilling troops.

Ludwig von Baczko considered the window-high building to be the most beautiful church in Königsberg,[4] but the project was halted by King Frederick II (reigned 1740 to 1786).

[5] Under the direction of Minister Friedrich Leopold von Schrötter, construction of the Stadttheater began in 1806 in place of the former garrison church.

Three years later King Frederick William III (reigned 1797 to 1840) transferred the garden from royal control to the city of Königsberg with the stipulation it not be developed.

An equestrian statue of Frederick William III was installed by the campus on 3 August 1851, while the memorial to Immanuel Kant by Christian Daniel Rauch was moved from before the castle to the garden's southwest in 1885.

[5] The southern wooded avenue Kastanienallee was cleared in the 1930s and replaced with a large square, which allowed the city's trams to connect Steindamm and Tragheim.