Lapidarium Köllnischer Park

Lapidarium Köllnischer Park stands in central Berlin, within Köllnischer Park beside the Märkisches Museum. Lawns, lindens, chestnuts, ornamental flower beds and a small playground shape the mostly flat grounds. The surrounding green space offers a quiet setting among architectural sculptures, with wheelchair access across the site.

Sandstone fragments connect the sculptures with Berlin’s former buildings, including a capital from the former city palace. A Renaissance relief adds another carved architectural remnant. The grounds developed from gardens after seventeenth-century fortifications around Berlin began disappearing. David Splitgerber acquired a large garden here in the eighteenth century, before a Masonic lodge maintained the private grounds. Public use followed in the late nineteenth century, when the former garden became part of the city’s evolving landscape.

Hercules in Combat with the Nemean Lion once stood on the Hercules Bridge near Hackescher Markt. Conrad Boy created the figure after a design by Gottfried Schadow, and the sculpture moved here after the bridge’s demolition. Heinrich Zille also appears in bronze, in a 1965 statue by Heinrich Drake.