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Berlin

Neue Wache

  • Address
    • Unter den Linden 4
  • Transport
    • 100, 200
    • Hausvogteiplatz
  • Hours
    • 10am-6pm

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Lonely Planet review for Neue Wache

This columned, templelike structure, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1818, was originally a Prussian royal guardhouse and is now an antiwar memorial. At its centre is Käthe Kollwitz’ heart-wrenching sculpture of a mother cradling her dead soldier son. Buried beneath are the remains of an unknown soldier, a Nazi resistance fighter and soil from nine European battlefields and concentration camps.