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  Monuments in Berlin / Senate Department of Urban Development in Berlin
The Neue Wache is the first building Karl Friedrich Schinkel built in Berlin and is considered one of the main works of German Classicism.
Until 1945 the Neue Wache served as a "Memorial for the Fallen of the War".
After German reunification the Neue Wache was inaugurated on the National Day of Mourning in 1993 as the "Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany" with the mourning pieta by Käthe Kollwitz in Tessenow's reconstructed "monumentally void interior hall".
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de /denkmal/denkmale_in_berlin/en/unter_den_linden/neue_wache.shtml   (416 words)

  
 Marcuse: Berlin Neue Wache (1997)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In a May 1993 Bundestag debate consensus is reached, namely that the Neue Wache will become the new central national memorial, and that a small sculpture by the socialist sculptor Käthe Kollwitz would be enlarged as the central motif in the interior.
At the last minute a modified version of the text of Weiszäcker's May 1985 speech was cast in bronze and mounted on the outside of the Neue Wache.
In the blandness of this compromise the Neue Wache is a relic, as it has been since the 1870s.
www.history.ucsb.edu /faculty/marcuse/presenta/neuewach.htm   (5308 words)

  
 Berlin.de: Sights: New Guardhouse
When it was built in 1818, the Neue Wache was the first independent work by a 37 year old architect who was to become the dominant figure in the architecture of Berlin and Prussia in the following decades, and is still honoured today: Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
The Neue Wache was the first representational building of the state to be erected after the French occupation, and although it was used as a simple guardhouse, it was regarded as a monument to the "wars of ­liberation".
In 1918 the Neue Wache lost its function, and in 1930/31 it was converted by Heinrich Tessenow for use as a simple memorial to those killed in the war.
www.berlin.de /tourismus/sehenswuerdigkeiten.en/00094.html   (475 words)

  
 Neue Wache, Berlin - Multimedia - MSN Encarta
Neue Wache, Berlin - Multimedia - MSN Encarta
Neue Wache, on Unter den Linden in Berlin, was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and completed in 1818.
It is one of the purest Neo-Classical buildings in Germany and one of several, designed by Schinkel, that give Berlin its Neo-Classical grandeur.
uk.encarta.msn.com /media_461541389/Neue_Wache_Berlin.html   (116 words)

  
 Walks through Berlin / Senate Department of Urban Development Berlin / Neue Wache
They were demolished in 1930/31, when Heinrich Tessenow converted the building into a monument for the soldiers who died in World War I. With the exception of a small circular opening in the middle, the courtyard was roofed over, and a wreath of gold and silver oak leaves placed on a fl granite boulder.
The Nazis turned the Neue Wache into a 'Reich Memorial' and its sober interior into a crude chamber of the dead.
After the war damage had been repaired, the building was remodelled from 1953 to 1957 and officially opened in 1960 as a "Memorial to the Victims of Fascism and Militarism".
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de /bauen/wanderungen/en/s1_wache.shtml   (318 words)

  
 Shofar FTP Archives: people/a/althans.bela.ewald/arm.092094   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Since then the same goal seems to have become achievable through the Neue Wache memorial: the murderers and executioners, the German soldiers and those that died in allied bombings are all put on the same level as the true victims.
The Neue Wache is no place to pay one's respect to the victims of Nazi Germany, its offensive and its system of destruction, nor to those who died fighting National Socialism.
On the 9th of November, 1993, the 55th anniversary of the November pogroms against the Jews, the Neue Wache was occupied by a group of anti-fascist activists, who chained themselves to the entrance of the memorial.
vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.cgi/ftp.py?people/a/althans.bela.ewald/arm.092094   (10198 words)

  
 New Guardhouse, Germany
New Guardhouse; Unter den Linden - Neue Wache
On the left-hand side of Berlin's Unter den Linden stands the quite small "Neue Wache" building.
It was built by K. Schinkel in 1816-18 on the site of an earlier guardhouse, and is a massive brick structure with a Doric portico in the manner of a Greek temple.
www.planetware.com /berlin/new-guardhouse-d-bn-bnw.htm   (316 words)

  
 Gallery - Kollwitz Sculpture - Photos
This enlarged version of Käthe Kollwitz's "Mother with dead son" was done by Harald Haake and stands in the middle of the "Neue Wache," a building rich in German history.
The "Neue Wache" was built by Karl Friedrich Schinkel from 1816 to 1818 for the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III.
The Pietá is located in the middle of the Neue Wache's stark interior.
fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/resource/gallery/KOLLWITZ.htm   (230 words)

  
 WEBAC, ZENTRALE, BAUCHEMIE, BAUSANIERUNG, INJEKTIONSHARZ, BESCHICHTUNG, ABDICHTUNG, POLYURETHAN, EPOXID   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Neue Wache on the boulevard Unter den Linden in Berlin is one of Germany's most significant classical buildings.
Erected according to plans of the famous architect and master builder Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1818, it was severely damaged during the war, rebuilt and turned into a memorial for the victims of fascism and militarism.
Later, the ravages of time showed on the walls of the Neue Wache severely damaging this jewel of architecture due to rising moisture.
www.webac-chemie.com /referenzen/ref03.html   (197 words)

  
 Tourist Information - VLDB 2003
The Neue Wache has been the central memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1993.
After reunification, the Neue Wache became the "Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Victims of War and Tyranny": the vague formulation of this designation gave rise to considerable protests.
The »Forum Fridericianum, begun at the end of the 18th century, was to be the intellectual and artistic centre of the monarchy, with the »Staatsoper, the Academy Library, »St. Hedwig's Cathedral and, on the opposite site, the Palace of Prince Heinrich.
www.vldb.org /conf/2003/homepage/near_campus.html   (2052 words)

  
 Blogger: Email Post to a Friend
The building on the left is the back of the Neue Wache, a memorial with a winding history.
The Neue Wache has already served as the Kaiser's guardhouse, as a war memorial for the Weimar Republic, as a memorial for the Nazis and as a shrine for East Germans guarded until 1989 by goose-stepping soldiers.
In 1993 it was renamed the 'Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Victims of War and Tyranny' and the long inscription now commemorates resistance fighters, homosexuals, Jews, gypsies, soldiers who fell on the front, people killed in the bombing raids - indeed all those who were victims of war and terror.
www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=6704345&postID=109550125272563899   (1142 words)

  
 Blogger: Email Post to a Friend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Queen laid the wreath at the Neue Wache in BerlinThe Queen has laid a wreath at a memorial to the victims of war and tyranny, at the start of a state visit to Germany promoting reconciliation.
Accompanied by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, she laid the multi-coloured flowers at the Neue Wache in Berlin.
The remains of an unknown soldier and a concentration camp victim lie buried at the memorial in earth from World War II battlefields and Nazi death camps.
www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=5270089&postID=109957845185766662   (435 words)

  
 Neue Wache, Berlin, Germany (Karl Friedrich Schinkel) - Architecture Guides from Archiseek.com
This was the first of Schinkel's great works and was completed shortly after he was appointed a senior advisor to the king.
A sternly classical building, the guardhouse (Neue Wache - New Guardhouse) takes the form of a Roman castrum with a Greek Doric temple front.
It is a beautifully austere building and despite its monumental style manages to remain on a human scale.
www.archiseek.com /guides/germany/brandenburg/berlin/neuewache.html   (108 words)

  
 Unter den Linden- Berlin, Germany - VirtualTourist.com
The atmosphere of the Neue Wache is austere and solemn.
The New Guard House or the Neue Wache is one of the most famous buildings by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, an architect who literally transformed nineteen-century Berlin with his Neoclassical buildings scaterred all over the center of town.
The Neue Wache stands at the eastern end of Unter den Linden and when it was built in 1818 it was to serve as the guardhouse for the royal guards.
lfnew.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Germany/Land_Berlin/Berlin-75302/Things_To_Do-Berlin-Unter_den_Linden-BR-1.html   (1795 words)

  
 Pinakothek Alte Neue and Moderne - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Pinakothek Alte Neue and Moderne - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Pinakothek, Alte, Neue, and Moderne the three sections of the Bavarian state art gallery in Munich, Germany.
The art gallery has its origins in ancient Greece and Rome.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Pinakothek_Alte_Neue_and_Moderne.html   (121 words)

  
 Transatlantic Intelligencer: The Neue Wache: Germany and Historical Revisionism
The focus of the Transatlantic Intelligencer is European politics and the, increasingly "conflicted", relationship of Europe - or, more precisely, the leading continental European powers, France and Germany - with the United States.
In the German Democratic Republic, the Neue Wache, which lies in the eastern part of the city, served as a memorial to “the Victims of Fascism and Militarism”: a formula that clearly referred to the Nazi regime and its crimes.
After Reunification, in 1993, the Neue Wache was re-opened as the “Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany”.
trans-int.blogspot.com /2005/05/neue-wache-germany-and-historical.html   (939 words)

  
 Where Is Liz: Picture of the Day
This work, Pietá by Käthe Kollwitz, is the sole object occupying the stark space of the Neue Wache.
This building, housing the Royal Guard in Berlin from 1818 to 1918 has, since 1960, served as memorial to the victims of war and fascism -- and a warning for future generations.
The remains of an unknown soldier and concentration camp prisoner were interred in the Neue Wache in 1969.
www.whereisliz.com /pod/pod207.html   (336 words)

  
 The Polynational War memorial:Memorials are After All Only Symbolic Works of Art
It is after all not often in history that a government has decided to build a memorial to a people that a previous regime tried to exterminate (imagine for example the Turkish Government building a memorial to the victims of the Armenian Holocaust in the middle of Istanbul).
The debate generated by the Holocaust Memorial can be traced back to the case with the Neue Wache [1].
It is perhaps not too far-fetched to assume that Helmut Kohl saw an opportunity to correct the mistakes with the Neue Wache, but also the Holocaust Memorial project has been marked by controversies from the start.
www.war-memorial.net /news_details.asp?ID=65   (1819 words)

  
 Berlin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Neue Wache (New Guard) was originally a royal guard house erected in 1816.
It became a war memorial in 1931, and was the focus of many parades down Unter den Linden during the Third Reich era.
On the left is a postcard of the Neue Wache from 1912 (author's collection); the other photo shows the ceremonial guard from the 1st Company of Hitler's bodyguard Leibstandarte at the Neue Wache.
www.thirdreichruins.com /berlin.htm   (1543 words)

  
 War and remembrance.(50th anniversary of VE-Day) - National Review - HighBeam Research
We were a stone's throw away from the neo-classical Neue Wache, Berlin's equivalent of the tomb of the unknown soldier.
The Neue Wache was the site of the alternative commemoration.
The Neue Wache had served the same purpose since the time of the Weimar Republic.
highbeam.com /library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1G1:16936573&...   (2152 words)

  
 TrekEarth | "Mother with dead son" Photo
This sculture stands in the middle of the "Neue Wache”.
This building was constructed from 1816 to 1818 for the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm III.Here the Royal guard was haused until 1918.
After reunification, the Neue Wache became the "Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Victims of War and Tyranny".
www.trekearth.com /gallery/Europe/Germany/photo265682.htm   (83 words)

  
 PhotoEclectic: Windows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
With all the new houses that were being built at the time mine was, having large numbers that stood out was helpful.
Susie writes: Taken inside Germany's primary war memorial, the Neue Wache in Berlin.
More information about the Neue Wache is here.
www.ranakwilliamson.com /photo_archives/000477.html   (288 words)

  
 Pro-Retaliatory Force
Yesterday’s Washington Post included a picture on the front page from within Berlin’s Neue Wache memorial which features a sculpture by Kaethe Kollwitz titled “Mother With Dead Son.” According to the Post’s caption, it is an anti-war sculpture.
However, to be anti-war as a matter of principle is to be out of context, as it is an ideal position divorced from reality.
"The Pieta that stands in the Neue Wache is an enlarged bronze casting of Kollwitz's Mother with Dead Son (1936), and certainly displays the type of anguish that she so often depicted.
journals.aol.com /jwoodswce/TheWashingtonRe-Post/entries/105   (438 words)

  
 Memorial Details: Neue Wache, Berlin
The resulting romantic classicist building was at that time not at all considered to be a memorial och to commemorate victims of war.
It was first in 1931 that the Preussian Government made Neue Wache into a memorial for the fallen soldiers in the first world war and placed a sculpture by Heinrich Tessenow in the middle of the building.
In the end of the second World War the building was severely damaged by bombs but was restored 1960 in the DDR era as a "memorial to the victims of fascism and militarism".
www.war-memorial.net /mem_det.asp?ID=105   (1062 words)

  
 Germany Info: Information Services: Publications: The Week in Germany
Official events commemorating the Allies' liberation of Europe included a wreath-laying ceremony at the Neue Wache memorial to victims of war with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, second from right.
On Sunday, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets again to counter a march that was planned but eventually abandoned by supporters of the far-right National Democratic Party.
Official events included a wreath-laying ceremony at the Neue Wache memorial to victims of war, an ecumenical service in Berlin's St. Hedwigs Cathedral and Koehler's keynote address to lawmakers and dignitaries.
www.germany-info.org /relaunch/info/publications/week/2005/050513/politics2.html   (829 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Queen due at climate conference
The Queen is beginning the second day of her official visit to Germany, with a major conference on climate change among her engagements.
The move, at the Queen's request, follows a personal donation to the cathedral's rebuilding fund which she made some years ago.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Queen laid a wreath at a memorial to the victims of war and tyranny at the Neue Wache in Berlin, accompanied by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
www.buzztracker.org /2004/11/03/cache/374521.html   (314 words)

  
 Das Neue Reich - Nazi Book with Actual Photographs
The book consists mainly of captioned pages onto which 156 genuine continuous tone fl and white photographs (NOT pictures printed by a mechanical process - these are REAL photographs) have been pasted.
The front cover is deeply embossed with a bold swastika in a wreath of oak leaves.
,,Das Neue Reich’’ is one of the earliest Nazi publications distributed after they attained power in Germany early in 1933, and begins with seven words of a Hitler quotation,,Du bist nichts - dein Volk ist Alles!’’ (You are nothing - your Nation is everything!).
www.usmbooks.com /das_neue_reich.html   (307 words)

  
 PIRN-9737: Homosexuals object, no Holocaust memorial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
NewsPlanet reported that in Berlin, Germany, plans are being laid to build "two new memorials for the victims of the Nazis -- except the victims who were gays and lesbians." The "Neue Wache memorial, will commemorate only the Jewish victims of the Nazis" and "there will be at least one separate memorial for the half-million"...
NewsPlanet's story did not cover the possibility of building a homosexual Holocaust memorial with 0.077% or even 0.17% of the funds and property that will be allocated for the main Neue Wache memorial or the Gypsy memorial.
NewsPlanet's story also omitted discussion of separate memorials for Jehovah's Witnesses, Slavs, the insane, mentally retarded, and physically disabled persons that were systematically targeted by the Nazi's for persecution, slavery and eventual extermination.
vikingphoenix.com /news/stn/1997/pirn9737.htm   (712 words)

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