Neue Wache

To the east of Humboldt University, the new posthouse designed by Shenker from 1816 to 1818 is considered a model of neoclassical architecture in Berlin. On the latch of the Dorian colonnade, the relief of the goddess of victory is found. Originally a Prussian post, it is now the "Central Memorial of the Victims of War and Tyranny in Germany". Inside the small Western pavilion-style building, the bronze statue of "Mother and Dead Son" is displayed, simple and solemn, to commemorate the victims of war and tyranny.

A statue of a mother holding a dead son carved by an artist in Berlin during World War II. Because there is a statue, it is difficult to visit only for this during the trip, but it clearly shows the horror of the war.

The new post in the black city center of Berlin, also known as the Memorial Hall of the Victims of War and Tyranny of the Federal Republic of Germany, is a German memory of history. In a huge memorial hall, there is only a statue of a mother huddled on the ground with a child, which makes people look very solemn. It is important to understand peace more deeply.

The new post is located on the street under the Bodhi tree, next to the German History Museum. It is a work of Shenker, built in 1816, and was originally a post of the Prussian Royal Army, so it is called the "New post." In 1931, it was changed to a memorial hall to commemorate Prussian soldiers who died in World War I, and the name was changed to the Memorial Hall of the Dead, but was destroyed by bombing a few months before the end of World War II. In 1960, the East German government restored the new post and opened it as a memorial for the victims of fascism and militarism. After the reunification of Germany, the new post was renovated and renamed the Memorial Hall of the Victims of War and Tyranny of the Federal Republic of Germany, where a sculpture of Kölwycht's "Mother and the Dead" was placed in the center of the hall.

The site was once a Royal Army post, first built in 1816, and in 1931 was converted into a memorial hall for the dead martyrs, commemorating the soldiers who died in World War I, and later destroyed and rebuilt.