The Monument to the Battle of the Nations is a monument in Leipzig, Germany, to the 1813 Battle of Leipzig, also known as the Battle of the Nations. Paid for mostly by donations and the city of Leipzi
The monument at night in 2015
A painting by Russian A.I. Zauerweid, depicting the Battle of the Nations
A celebration with Emperor Francis I of Austria on the first anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig at the Prater in Vienna on 18 October 1814. Events such as this took place in all of Germany on that day.
The cornerstone, laid down in 1863, in a drawing from around 1880
Kyffhäuser Monument
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The Kyffhäuser Monument, also known as Barbarossa Monument, is an Emperor William monument in the Kyffhäuser mountain range in the German state of Thuringia. It was erected from 1890 to 1896 atop the
Monument to the Battle of the Nations
…December of the same year, with first prize this time going to Wilhelm Kreis. Bruno Schmitz, an architect from Berlin who had earlier designed both the Kyffhäuser Monument in Thuringia as well as the Deutsches Eck in Koblenz, won fourth prize with a design of a round tower with a dome on top. The Patriotic Association was…
Central tower and equestrian statue of Emperor William I
Ruins of the medieval Kyffhausen Castle
The monument around 1900
Sculpture of Frederick Barbarossa