What it is
The square was laid out around 1230 as a market place and covers some 13,000 square metres. The Trinity Column of white Salzburg marble was raised in 1723 in thanks for the city's deliverance from war, fire and plague. The Old Town Hall on the east side has a Renaissance core; the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who lived in Linz for 14 years, wrote one of his main works in a house nearby on Rathausgasse.
Markets, festivals and the Christmas market take place on the square through the year.
Getting there by bus
Hauptplatz stop in the middle of the square is served by trams 1, 2 and 3 and by the Pöstlingbergbahn (50), which starts here. From the Hauptbahnhof, trams 1, 2 and 3 take around ten minutes along Landstraße.
The Lentos museum and the Nibelungen bridge to the Ars Electronica Center are at the Danube end of the square.
