Schillerplatz, Public square in Innere Stadt, Vienna, Austria.

Schillerplatz is a public square in Vienna's historic center featuring a central monument to Friedrich Schiller at its heart. Classical buildings frame the space on all sides, and the stone-paved ground creates an inviting area for visitors to spend time.

The area lay on the unbuilt glacis outside Vienna's walls until the fortifications were demolished around 1860, when the Stadterweiterungsfonds folded it into the Ringstrasse plans. The Kalkmarkt market stood here before being moved to make way for the square. In 1870 the city council named it after Friedrich Schiller, already anticipating his monument, unveiled in 1876 at the centre of the Schillerpark laid out in 1877/78.

The square takes its name from the German poet Friedrich Schiller and draws people who enjoy spending time outdoors and connecting with others. You can feel here how Vienna has long been linked to German-speaking artists and thinkers who shaped the city's character.

The square lies between Opernring and Getreimarkt, bounded by Elisabethstraße to the north; the Schillerhof at No. 1–2 has no gate on the square, so its entrances are around the corner at Nibelungengasse 2–4 and Elisabethstraße 9. The park is used mainly by students of the Academy of Fine Arts and by tourists. A sight axis runs north over Robert-Stolz-Platz toward the Goethe monument on the Ring.

The monument, designed by Johannes Schilling and unveiled in 1876, shows Schiller with the four ages of life and allegories of genius, poetry, science and love of homeland. Schiller was one of the first artists, rather than rulers or generals, to receive a representative monument on a public square in Vienna.