Image Slider: The Kreuzberg Monument

The National Monument to the Wars of Liberation, also known as the Kreuzberg Monument, was erected from 1818 to 1821 by order of King Wilhelm III on a hill in what is now Berlin's Kreuzberg district. It is intended to commemorate the Prussian soldiers who died in the liberation wars of 1813 to 1815. The design is by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the sculptures are by Christian Friedrich Tieck, Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann and Christian Daniel Rauch. During the inauguration of the monument on 30 March 1821, the name of the hill of Tempelhofer Berg in Kreuzberg took also place. In 1920, Kreuzberg became the eponym for the famous Berlin district. A drawing of Karl Friedrich Schinkel from 1823 and a photograph of the monument around 1895/1920 can be compared here.