The Berlin Victory Column

28 May 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Berlin Reading Time:  3 minutes

© Manfred Brückels

© Manfred Brückels

The Victory Column is a monument in Berlin. Designed by Heinrich Strack, after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), giving the statue a new purpose.   read more…

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