page_title: Green spaces in Freiburg
section_title: Stühlinger Church Square
hierarchical_section_title: Green spaces in Freiburg / Parks / Stühlinger Church Square
caption_attribution_description: Die Herz Jesu Kirche auf dem Stühlinger Kirchplatz in Freiburg
context_page_description: Freiburg im Breisgau's parks, green spaces, recreational facilities, playgrounds, roadside greeneries and the Mundenhof add up to an area of 397 ha, which corresponds to 18.05 m² of green space per Freiburg citizen. On average, major cities in Baden-Württemberg have 22.66 m² green space/citizen. However, there is an area of 2600 ha of forest in the close proximity of Freiburg as well as additional recreational area like the Rieselfeld district. The majority of the green spaces came into existence from the 1960s on.
context_section_description: The 180,000 m² Stühlinger church square, which is located between Freiburg main station and the church Herz-Jesu-Kirche, was redesigned in 1985, after some parts of the area were repurposed in 1983 due to the building of the city train bridge (today called Stühlinger Brücke). This space, however, was compensated by adding a different area to the church square. The geometrically designed park with a central lawn, in which Ralf Witthaus, an artist from Cologne, has tilled a pattern using a strimmer in 2011, is framed by a pergola in the east.
  The concrete sculpture “Zwei Riesen. Einer spuckt. Einer schluckt.” (Two giants. One spits. One swallows.), created by Franz Gutmann, is located under the Stühlinger Brücke. Between the two giants, the Stühlinger farmers’ market is taking place every Wednesday and Saturday morning.
  Between 1894 and 1929, the church square was also the location of the trade fair of Freiburg. Since 1995, a nostalgic fair with old fairground rides takes place there once a year. In 2012, the final concert of the Freiburg parade of Basel Tattoo was held there, too.
  As this place, which is close to the city center, is also frequented by homeless or addicted people, an outreach program has been set up. Since 2008, two municipal social workers in their specially marked vehicles take care of these people two to three times per week.
caption: The Stühlinger Church Square and the Herz-Jesu-Kirche
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