I did a little Berlin touring on US Independence Day, taking the S-Bahn to a stop where I never had been, then walking through the Tiergarten and visiting the Siegessäule (Victory Column) for the first time (I had been past it, but never actually gone into it.)
Heidelberger Platz U-Bahn station
Die Siegessäule was completed in 1873, and it commemorates the Prussian victories in the Danish-Prussian War (1864), Austro-Prussian War (1866) and Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), which led to the creation of the modern state of Germany in 1871. It originally stood in front of the Reichstag, but the Nazis moved it to its current location in the Tiergarten.
Detail of the bronze freeze on the base. Prussian troops returning to Berlin from France in 1871.
That's Bismarck on the center-left.
The foundation stone in the center of the base.
Germania, in the mosaic which encircles the upper, columned portion of the base.
Victory, from the top of the Column.
Straße des 17. Juni, looking toward the Brandenburg Gate.
The Spree, Charité Hospital and the Chancellery.
Potsdamer Platz.
In the Tiergarten.
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