Soviet Memorials in Berlin
Three main Soviet memorials were built in Berlin after the end of the war.
December 18th, 2014
The Tiergarten memorial, built in 1945 in the Tiergarten district which later became West Berlin, the Soviet War Memorial Schönholzer Heide in Berlin's Pankow district and Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Treptower Park.
Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Treptower Park: The monument is one of three Soviet memorials built in Berlin after the end of the war. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 5,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It opened four years after World War II on May 8, 1949. The Memorial served as the central war memorial of East Germany. The monument is one of three Soviet memorials built in Berlin after the end of the war.
Soviet War Memorial in Tiergarten: The Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten) is one of several war memorials in Berlin, capital city of Germany, erected by the Soviet Union to commemorate its war dead, particularly the 80,000 soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces who died during the Battle of Berlin in April and May 1945. The memorial is located in the Großer Tiergarten, a large public park to the west of the city center.
Soviet War Memorial in Schönholzer Heide: The Soviet War Memorial in Schönholzer in Pankow, Berlin was erected in the period between May 1947 and November 1949 and covers an area of 30 000 m². Schönholzer Heide was in the 19th century a popular recreation area. During the Second World War the place was turned into a work camp.
A group of Soviet architects consisting of A. Solowjew, M. Belarnzew, W. D. Koroljew and the sculptor Iwan G. Perschudtschew made the sketch for the cemetery, where 13,200 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers that had fallen during the battle of Berlin, should be buried. On a wall around the memorial there are 100 bronze tablets where the names, ranks and birth dates of the soldiers it was possible to identify, are written. A statue of the Russian Mother Earth is situated in front of the obelisk and constitutes the main point of the memorial. On the statue's base, which is made out of black porphyry, one finds 42 bronze tablets on which the names of fallen officers are inscribed.
References and Links
- For more information: http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/
- Flickr Gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/125776584@N02/sets/72157646243970188/
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