Neue Wache, Berlin

The Neue Wache on Unter den Linden, designed by the great architect and artist Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), was built between 1816 and 1818 as a guardhouse for the royal watch. Used as a police station until 1918 it then became a World War I memorial, later extended to include the victims of the Nazis, and is now formally the National Memorial to the Victims of War and Tyranny. Inside its spare interior are the tomb of an unknown soldier and the tomb of an unknown concentration camp victim, beneath a sculpture originally by Kathe Kollwitz (more details with the next image).

Technical: NIKON D300, f=27.0 mm, ISO320, 1/1000 sec @ f8.0

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