sentences:  Until 1970 both Lindenstraße and Wilhelmstrasse led into it.In 1947 it was renamed after the publicist Franz Mehring (1846–1919).Mehringplatz is one of three prominent squares laid out about 1730 in the course of the city's Baroque extension under King Frederick William I of Prussia, along with Pariser Platz (former "Karree") and Leipziger Platz ("Octagon").