{"id":20907,"date":"2021-05-30T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=20907"},"modified":"2022-04-20T11:05:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T09:05:48","slug":"soviet-memorial-in-treptow-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/germany\/berlin\/soviet-memorial-in-treptow-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I love to discover Berlin. Unfortunately, one often takes far too little time for his hometown and in addition Berlin is not exactly small. Since you are often with the public transport, especially from my home district Spandau, quickly times an hour on the road until you reach the desired destination. The Treptower Park is not one of the destinations that are around the corner for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
In Treptower Park we visited the Soviet Memorial and I was very impressed by the size of the memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The memorial is one of four memorials established by the Red Army in the Berlin urban area after World War II. There is another one in Sch\u00f6nholzer Heide in Pankow, in Tiergarten in Charlottenburg and in Bucher Schlosspark. All these memorials are not only to commemorate the fallen soldiers, they are also military cemeteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7000 soldiers of the Red Army who died in the Battle of Berlin have been buried in the grounds of Treptow Park. The Soviet command wanted to erect a monument in their honor. Ideas were collected in a competition and in 1946 a design by a Soviet collective of architects, sculptors, painters and engineers was chosen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n