Schwab writes about the cathedral square:The leaves of the widely branching linden trees rustle softly as I [...] enter the wide cathedral square, which spreads out before me in its peace. And again the word of the past sounds, as I am told about the history of the origin of the diocese, because it is the ground of first settlement on which I find myself. It was thousands of years ago: in the primeval forests and wastelands of Germania dwelled wild peoples, a barren unculture still lurked over the inhabitants of the Occident, and the sacrificial animals bled for the gods of Wallhall. A pagan place of worship of the Saxon people, washed by the floods of the Holtemme, may have been the current cathedral square, and he was therefore chosen to carry the emblem of the new faith first.Hermann Schwab then describes equal to 3 sights, the cathedral, the cathedral provostry and the war memorial. The war memorial stood in the center of the cathedral square until the Second World War. The monument was also called Victory Monument by Schwab. Used both terms. Schwab writes:War memorial/Siegesdenkmal[...] vorüber kommen ich zum Siegesdenkmal. In memory of the fallen van 1866 and 1870-71 it rises in Gothic forms in limestone - the building stone of all cathedral square buildings - in the center of the square; four stone images of emperors - Charlemagne, Frederick Barbarossa, Henry the Vogler and William I - in niches depict Halberstadt's history, from the founding of the bishopric to the criterion of its loyalty to the House of Hohenzollern, which it sealed with the blood of his children.Dompropstei[..]Built for the cathedral chapter at the turn of the 17th century, it now houses the local health insurance, the offices of the income tax assessment commission for the Halberstadt city district, the registry office and the meeting room of the city councillors with its adjoining rooms. Far above the lower one, the upper floor jumps out, so that the stone arches and pillars that support it are an open ambulatory of pleasing shapes. Old family coats of arms in stone and wood with bright colors decorate the wall surfaces above the basement and are grouped around the two fronts at the corner of which the seated statue of Stephen, the patron saint of the cathedral.Dom[...] The proud cathedral, whose magnificent forms soar in overwhelming majesty in the east of the square, is the fifth building created in the course of eleven centuries. The first Hildegrimm began at the beginning of the ninth century with the construction of a cathedral, which stood in the middle of the cathedral square, but collapsed already in 965. In the same year Bishop Bernard started the reconstruction of the cathedral, which was completed under his successor Hildeward in 974; he also built a cathedral on the site of the present one, but in 1060 a conflagration caused the destruction of both. Already after eleven years under Buko of Halberstadt the construction of a third cathedral was started, but after about a hundred years it fell victim to the battles of the bishopric with Henry the Lion. A fourth cathedral built in 1180, stood only a few decades, until in 1220 under Gardulf the beginnings of the present building appeared, which was consecrated after many an internal and external redesign in 1491.LiebfrauenkircheI come to the Liebfrauenkirche, the oldest building in Halberstadt, with the collegiate buildings and the Petershof attached to it, the former residence of the bishop. The church was built over a period of four centuries, and the stone structure on which the western quadrangular towers rise, as well as a small chapel in the western wing, are the last remains of the first building erected by Bishop Arnulf at the beginning of the year 1000. The middle of the twelfth century brought the completion of these towers and the construction of the nave and central aisle, while the transept and the choir were built towards the end of the same century. A hundred years later, the eastern octagonal towers rose, and like a greeting that each new day has brought all these centuries to the work of the past, evergreen ivy has quietly climbed up to the ancient wall and clothed it with eternal youth.