Invaliden-Friedhof
Invaliden-Friedhof is a cemetery in Berlin, with roots reaching back to 1748 and the city’s military history. It first served veterans wounded in the War of the Austrian Succession. Those veterans lived at the nearby Invalidenhaus, built on the orders of Frederick the Great.
Over time, the grounds became a burial place for distinguished Prussian military personnel and a memorial to the Wars of Liberation. A royal decree made it an official burial ground for notable military figures in 1824. Gerhard von Scharnhorst rests beneath a tomb designed by Schinkel. Rauch’s sleeping lion, cast from captured cannon, marks that famous grave.
About 18,000 funerals had taken place there by 1872. After the Second World War, Allied orders removed Nazi monuments, while the Berlin Wall destroyed a third of the grounds for watchtowers. Restoration began after reunification in 1990, and a memorial honours Berliners killed while trying to cross the Wall.
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