XXI. Siegessaule Monument, Berlin 28” h, c. 1880, cast and machined brass, patinated white metal, cast copper, and painted wood base See Pricing.
Designed in 1864 to commemorate a Prussian victory over Denmark. By 1873, when the monument was dedicated, the country celebrated the additional defeats of Austria and France. With these, it was decided to add the 27 foot tall, gilded bronze figure of Victoria at the column’s summit. The monument was cast by Berlin’s Gladenbeck Foundry, which also produced very highly realized models of other important German monuments. The changes didn’t stop there. Originally located in Berlin’s Konigsplatz, adjacent to the Reichstag, in 1939 Hitler directed his architect, Albert Speer, to draw plans for the relocation of the monument to the center of the Grossen Stein, a vast convergence of roads in Berlin’s Tiergarten District, in line with a new triumphal route, on axis with and running through
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