The focal point of the Reisinger and Herbert plazas in front of the main train station is the monumental sculpture of Europa on the Bull. The 150-metric-ton colossus, carved from shell limestone, was created in 1937 by the Stuttgart sculptor Joseph Ludwig Spiegel (1885–1957) and stands at the end of a paved path that runs along the edge of a large basin.

The Greek myth of Zeus, the father of the gods, who falls in love with the king’s daughter Europa, appears to her in the form of a bull and, when she is lured into sitting on his back, abducts her to Crete, is also depicted in the nearby lobby on a mural by Karl Otto Hy, based on a design by Arnold Hensler, and explained on an information panel. Spiegel had been commissioned in 1930 to erect a war memorial in Rüsselsheim and presumably came into contact with Wiesbaden and the patrons of the Reisinger and Herbert parks through Wilhelm von Opel.

The monument, featuring Europa gracefully positioned atop the mighty body of the bull, has lost none of its appeal even today. The ancient theme of the virgin Europa, abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull, enjoyed great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s. In the context of Wiesbaden, Europa was intended to symbolize the spa town’s cosmopolitanism.