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| Siegessäule in Berlin |
In Berlin, The Bonds are visiting Tiergarten where Siegessäule stands up. It's a very beautiful part of the city, a huge park where you can walk, rest, listen to music and discover the recent Prussian past of the city.
Siegessäule from Sieg victory and Säule column or The Victory Column is a monument in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Heinrich Strack, after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria and its German allies in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), giving the statue a new purpose. Different from the original plans, these later victories in the so-called unification wars inspired the addition of the bronze sculpture of Victoria, 8.3 metres high and weighing 35 tonnes, designed by Friedrich Drake. Berliners have given the statue the nickname Goldelse, meaning something like Golden Lizzy.
Siegessäule from Sieg victory and Säule column or The Victory Column is a monument in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Heinrich Strack, after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria and its German allies in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), giving the statue a new purpose. Different from the original plans, these later victories in the so-called unification wars inspired the addition of the bronze sculpture of Victoria, 8.3 metres high and weighing 35 tonnes, designed by Friedrich Drake. Berliners have given the statue the nickname Goldelse, meaning something like Golden Lizzy.
More information: Berlin.de
Siegessäule is a major tourist attraction in the city of Berlin. Its viewing platform, for which a ticket is required, offers a view over Berlin.
Built on a base of polished red granite, the column sits on a hall of pillars with a glass mosaic designed by Anton von Werner.
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| Siegessäule in an old picture |
The column itself, inspired to Heinrich Strack by the torre faro of Rodolfo Vantini, which stands in the monumental cemetery of Brescia, consists of four solid blocks of sandstone, three of which are decorated by cannon barrels captured from the enemies of the aforementioned three wars.
A fourth ring is decorated with golden garlands and was added in 1938–39 as the whole monument has been relocated. The entire column, including the sculpture, is 67 metres tall.
Siegessäule, The Victory Column, originally stood in Königsplatz, now Platz der Republik, at the end of the Siegesallee, Victory Avenue. In 1939, as part of the preparation of the monumental plans to redesign Berlin into Welthauptstadt Germania, the Nazis relocated the column to its present site at the Großer Stern, Great Star, a large intersection on the city axis that leads from the former Berliner Stadtschloss, Berlin City Palace, through the Brandenburg Gate to the western parts of the city. At the same time, the column was augmented by another 7.5 metres, giving it its present height of 66.89 metres.
More information: The Culture Trip
The monument survived World War II without much damage. The relocation of the monument probably saved it from destruction, as its old site, in front of the Reichstag, at exactly 1500 metres from the proposed new north-south triumphal way of the Nazis in line with the Imperial Victory Avenue in the Tiergarten, was destroyed by American air raids in 1945.
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| The Bonds in Großer Tiergarten |
Via a steep spiral staircase of 285 steps, the physically fit may, for a fee, climb almost to the top of the column, to just under the statue and take in the spectacular views over the Tiergarten including the Soviet War Memorial, 1946, in line with the Nazi proposed north-south triumphal way by Speer and Adolf Hitler.
Großer Tiergarten, The Tiergarten, is Berlin’s most popular inner-city park, located completely in the district of the same name. The park is 210 hectares in size and is among the largest urban gardens of Germany.
The beginnings of the Tiergarten can be traced back to 1527. It was founded as a hunting area for the Elector of Brandenburg, and was situated to the west of the Cölln city wall, which was the sister town of Old Berlin.
More information: Berlin.de
At the end of the 18th century, Knobelsdorff's late-baroque form had been all but replaced by ideas for a new, scenic garden ideal. The castle park Bellevue and Rousseau Island were laid out by court gardener Justus Ehrenreich Sello in the late 18th century.
The Nazi Party took control of Germany in 1933, causing a dramatic change of idealism. This change was not just social; in fact, Adolf Hitler had planned the complete renovation of the city of Berlin. Welthauptstadt Germania or World Capital Germania, was the idea the Nazis wanted to bring to fruition.
On June 2, 1945, the Berlin Magistrate decided they would restore the Greater Tiergarten. The Tiergarten's culture began to stagnate until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. After the reunification of East and West Berlin in 1990, many of the outskirts of the park changed drastically.
People never lie so much as after a hunt,
during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
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