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English: The Siegesallee was a boulevard in the Tiergarten in Berlin with monuments, which are stored today mainly in the Spandau Citadel.

Deutsch: Die Siegesallee war ein 1893 angelegter Prachtboulevard im Berliner Tiergarten mit Denkmälern, die heute zu einem großen Teil in der Zitadelle Spandau zu sehen sind.

See also: Liste der Figurengruppen der Berliner Siegesallee

plan, 1902
painting of Siegesallee by Lesser Ury, 1920
Caricature (1899) of the monument Otto V, monument-group 12 (German nickname „Otto der Faule“ = Otto the Lazy)
Heinrich Zille poses his friend and sculptor August Kraus for the bust of the knight „Wedigo von Plotho“ (group 9)

Group 1, memorial to Albert the Bear. Sculptor: Walter Schott, 1898.
Albert I, with bishop Wigger of Brandenburg (left) and bishop Otto of Bamberg
Albert I, today in the Zitadelle Spandau. Sculptor: Walter Schott
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Group 2, memorial to Otto I. Sculptor: Max Unger, 1898.
Otto I, with abbot Sibold (left) and Fürst Pribislaw
Group 3, memorial to Otto II. Sculptor: Joseph Uphues, 1899.
Otto II (group on the left), with knight „Johann Gans zu Putlitz“ and chronicler and capitular „Heinrich von Antwerpen“
Group 4, Memorial to de:Albrecht II.. Sculptor: Johannes Boese, 1898.
Siegesallee 1903 or before, in the foreground group 4
Group 5, double-statue de:Johann I. / de:Otto III.. Sculptor: Max Baumbach, 1900.
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On the left: Double-statue de:Johann I. / de:Otto III., sculptor Max Baumbach, 1900. On the right: de:Otto IV., sculptor Karl Begas, 1899.
Group 6, memorial to co-ruler de:Johann II., 1900. Sculptor: Reinhold Felderhoff
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Group 7, memorial to de:Otto IV. mit dem Pfeil. Sculptor: Karl Begas, 1899.
Group 9, Memorial to de:Heinrich II. „das Kind“ (german for „Henry the child“). Sculptor: August Kraus, 1900.
dto. with the busts de:Wartislaw IV., duke from pomerania (on the left), and the Knight Wedigo von Plotho (with the physiognomy of Heinrich Zille, see below)

House of Wittelsbach

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Group 11, to de:Ludwig II. der Römer / en:Louis VI the Roman. For the busts see the picture-text. Sculptor: Emil Graf Görtz zu Schlitz, 1900.

House of Luxembourg

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Group 13, to de:Kaiser Karl IV. / Charles IV., Holy Roman Emperor. For the busts see the picture-text. Sculptor: Ludwig Cauer, 1899.
Group 14, to de:Sigismund von Luxemburg / Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor. For the busts see the picture-text. Sculptor: Eugen Börmel, 1900.

House of Hohenzollern

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dto., on the left with the bust of de:Friedrich Sesselmann, bishop of the Bishopric of Lebus, and on the right the bust to Berlin’s Burgomaster de:Wilke Blankenfelde.
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dto., Georg Wilhelm / George William
Realized group 32. Sculptors, 1900: sidebusts by Reinhold Begas and the main-statue in all probability by August Kraus (see: de:group 32)
group 34 - memorial to Kaiserin Friedrich)

Busts / Nebenfiguren

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Eike von Repgow, author of the Sachsenspiegel, bust beside the mainfigure for de:Albrecht II., group 4. Sculptor: Johannes Boese, unveiling 22 March 1898
Knight Wedigo von Plotho with physiognomy of Heinrich Zille (beside mainfigure margrave Henry II. (Brandenburg), called „Heinrich das Kind“ (german for „Henry the child“)), group 9. Sculptor: August Kraus, unveiling 22 March 1900
Thilo von Brügge, en:Patrician and de:Münzmeister in Berlin (sidebust group 12). Sculptor: Adolf Brütt, 1899
Group 16, bust commemorating bishop de:Friedrich Sesselmann, chancellor of Brandenburg. Sculptor: Alexander Calandrelli, 1898.
Group 16, bust commemorating to Berlin’s burgomaster de:Wilke Blankenfelde. Sculptor: Alexander Calandrelli, 1898.
Busso VII. von Alvensleben (beside mainfigure: John Cicero, group 18). Sculptor: Albert Manthe, unveiling 14. Nov. 1900
Heinrich Rüdiger von Ilgen from the de:monumentgroup 27, 1902 by the sculptor Rudolf Siemering; duplicate in the de:Schlosspark Britz, 2007
Heinrich Rüdiger von Ilgen from the de:monumentgroup 27, 1902 by the sculptor Rudolf Siemering
Leopold von Dessau from the de:monumentgroup 27, 1902 by the sculptor Rudolf Siemering

Margrave de:Waldemar der Große by Max Unger 1894/95. Mühlendammbrücke, Berlin. Prototype for the early monuments in the Siegesallee.
Mark from en:William II, German Emperor to a composition test at school (1901) with a theme to the Siegesallee. For the text see de:Siegesallee.
Siegesallee today