Place de la Republique

Just across a branch of the river from Place Broglie is the Place de la Republique, with several large neo-Gothic Renaissance structures built by the Germans in the 19th century.

Here is the lovely river view on the way to the Place de la Republique.

The Place de la Republique is a large park surrounded by imposing buildings. This is the Palais du Rhin, which had been the imperial palace in the late 19th century, when Strasbourg was part of Germany. That statue is a war memorial dated 1936.

The National Library is on the south side of the park.

On the walk back to Place Broglie, I noticed this statue of "Kellermann." As I have some relatives named Keller with ancestry in Germany, this seemed worth a picture. If you blow up the image, it refers to "Duc de Valmy," born in Strasbourg in 1735, died in Paris in 1820.

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