Neue Wache
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The Neue Wache is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. Erected from 1816 to 1818 according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel as a guardhouse for the Royal Palace and a memorial to the Liberation Wars, it is considered a major work of Prussian Neoclassical architecture. A Victoria pedimental sculpture by Johann Gottfried Schadow and five General statues by Christian Daniel Rauch, referring to the Warrior statues on Schlossbrücke, also belong to the ensemble. Since 1993, the Neue Wache has been home to the Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Victims of War and Tyranny.
Neue Wache at night
Original view of the Neue Wache with flanking statues of von Scharnhorst and von Bülow, 1938
Scharnhorst statue, originally erected next to the Neue Wache
The glass prism (with eternal flame) in 1970
Unter den Linden
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Unter den Linden is a boulevard in the central Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. Running from the Spree River to the Brandenburg Gate, it is named after the linden trees that line the grassed pedestrian mall on the median and the two broad carriageways. The avenue links numerous Berlin sights, landmarks and rivers for sightseeing.
Unter den Linden from Berlin Cathedral to Brandenburg Gate and Tiergarten park, view from Fernsehturm, 2005
J. Stridbeck, LindenAllee 1691
Parade on Opernplatz (by Franz Krüger, between 1824 and 1830). In the very background the planting with the linden trees begins towards the Brandenburg Gate.
Berlin Cathedral from the River Spree