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The Niederwald monument (German: Niederwalddenkmal) is a monument located in the Niederwald, near Rüdesheim am Rhein in Hesse, Germany, built between 1871 and 1883 to commemorate the Unification of Germany. The monument is located within the Rhine Gorge, a larger UNESCO World Heritage Site.
As Germany was divided following World War II, West and East Germany ratified the convention separately, the former on 23 August 1976 [3] and the latter on 12 December 1988. With German reunification, East Germany was dissolved on 3 October 1990. [4] Germany has 54 sites on the list, with a further seven on the tentative list.
Aerial view of the Walhalla memorial Walhalla, seen from the Danube River. The Walhalla (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is a hall of fame Monument that honours laudable and distinguished people in German history – "politicians, sovereigns, scientists and artists of the German tongue"; [1] thus the celebrities honoured are drawn from Greater Germany, a wider area than today's Germany, and even as ...
The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor [ˈbʁandn̩ˌbʊʁɡɐ ˈtoːɐ̯] ⓘ) is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin.One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg an der Havel, the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... Monuments and memorials in Germany (13 C, 63 P) Museum Island (14 P) O.
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[1] [2] The monument has been described "as one of the most famous and most beloved monuments in all of Germany" [3] and as the beginning of a "cult of the monument". [4] Dozens of monuments to Goethe and to Schiller were built subsequently in Europe and the United States. [5]
Klinger's monument design from 1911 (postcard from around 1913) The old memorial staircase (1913) The memorial pedestal in Klingerhain (around 1930) The first efforts to erect a Wagner monument in Leipzig date back to 1883. For his 70th birthday, three months after his death, a committee collected donations and considered locations for a memorial.