The park stretches in a narrow strip along the banks of the river Svarton, opposite the castle of Örebro. After the death in 1996 of Swedish politician, MP from Örebro and Social Democrat Carl Henry Allard, Central Park was renamed in his honor and is now called Henry Allard Park. In 1919, a monument to Charles XIV Johan (Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte), the first king of the Bernadotte dynasty (sculptor Alfred Olson), was unveiled on the border of the park. In 1810, a meeting of the Riksdag was held in Örebro, which elected Marshal Bernadotte heir to the Swedish throne, the successor of the childless King Charles XIII. (The meeting was decided to be held away from Stockholm, where there was a high probability of popular unrest.) The monument looks beautiful in front of a medieval castle. Another important attraction of the park is the sculpture fountain "Liberator" (Befriaren), 1914, by sculptor Karl Hultström. The fountain was built at the expense of merchant Adolf Lindren, who received a plot for the construction of a palace in the city center and, as an encumbrance, had to improve the surrounding area. The sculpture has a brutal aesthetic. The model was the Swedish gymnast Axel Janse, Olympic champion in gymnastics in 1912.

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