The Victory Column, known in German as the Siegessaule, stands in Berlin's Tiergarten park, designed by the architect Heinrich Strack and completed in 1873 to commemorate Prussia's military victories in its wars against Denmark, Austria and France in the preceding decade. The monument originally stood in front of the Reichstag building closer to the city center, but it was relocated in 1938 and 1939 to its present site at the Grosser Stern intersection as part of Albert Speer's grand redesign of Berlin's ceremonial avenues under the Nazi government, a move that also allowed a fourth drum to be added to the column, further increasing its height. The column is topped by a gilded bronze statue personifying Victory, sculpted by Friedrich Drake, that Berliners have long nicknamed Goldelse. Visitors can climb an internal spiral staircase to a viewing platform near the statue's base, and the column has remained a prominent Berlin landmark and gathering point through the city's later political upheavals.
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Building Type LocationSourced to the subject's own account Completed Year Height (m)Sourced to the subject's own account Classification
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Source Victory Column (Wikidata)
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1. Berlin Victory Column, Wikipedia
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a monument in Berlin, Germany
Opening paragraph, inauguration clause
by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873
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The Victory Column, known in German as the Siegessaule, stands in Berlin's Tiergarten park, designed by the architect Heinrich Strack and completed in 1873 to commemorate Prussia's military victories in its wars against Denmark, Austria and France in the preceding decade. The monument originally stood in front of the Reichstag building closer to the city center, but it was relocated in 1938 and 1939 to its present site at the Grosser Stern intersection as part of Albert Speer's grand redesign of Berlin's ceremonial avenues under the Nazi government, a move that also allowed a fourth drum to be added to the column, further increasing its height. The column is topped by a gilded bronze statue personifying Victory, sculpted by Friedrich Drake, that Berliners have long nicknamed Goldelse. Visitors can climb an internal spiral staircase to a viewing platform near the statue's base, and the column has remained a prominent Berlin landmark and gathering point through the city's later political upheavals.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikidata height (P2048) statement: 67.0
Wikidata item Q154987, property P2048 (height): 67.0 m (converted to metres, preferred/normal rank, non-deprecated)
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Bezirk Mitte, Germany
Wikidata item Q154987, property P131/P17 (location): Bezirk Mitte, Germany
In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, Wikidata P149
architectural style: Neoclassical architecture
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