The upper town and that part which lay on the shores of the Werter See was the modern and fashionable district.

It was here that the king and the archbishop had their palaces and the wealthy their brick and stone.

The public park skirted the lake, and was patterned after those fine gardens which add so much to the picturesqueness of Vienna and Berlin.

There were wide gravel paths and long avenues of lofty chestnuts and lindens, iron benches, fountains and winding flower beds.
The park, the palaces, and the Continental Hotel enclosed a public square, paved with asphalt, called the Hohenstaufenplatz, in the center of which rose a large marble fountain of several streams, guarded by huge bronze wolves.

Here, too, were iron benches which were, for the most part, the meeting-place of the nursemaids.