Siegessäule

The Siegessäule is a monumental column of pageantry which rises in the center of a roundabout with 5 ways with Berlin, Germany. Also called the place of large Star, it gives on 5 large avenues. It is the central point of the Tiergarten, him even in the middle of the city ( new district of Berlin-Mitte ).

A gilded statue is drawn up at its top, which protects the city, or is heralding a good news there.

The history of the monument returns to an allegory of Germany Prussian of the Second Reich, when military processions traversed with the Pas goose the avenue of June 17th since the Porte of Brandebourg. Indeed, it was conceived in 1864 to celebrate the victory over the Denmark, but at the time when it completed to be set up (1873), Prussia had overcome France. It thus symbolized the advent of the new German Empire.

Times changed well since is held there these last times another parade.

In the beginning located in the zone of the Reichstag, its displacement by the Nazi S (in 1939) on the place of large Star probably saved it destruction of the end of the war, since the zone of origin was reduced to a heap of rubble.

Its base comprises Bas-relief S.

Inspirations

Cinéma : the evoked statue is filmed in Der Himmel über Berlin of Wim Wenders. It is a place of observation for the protective, passive archangels.
Ville of Mexico: .

External bonds

Seen satellite of the '' column '' on WikiMapia
Nicolas Janberg, BDD of the structures, Siegessäule

Random links: