Hofgartenbrunnwerk

The War Memorial in Munich's Hofgarten, often referred to as the Hofgartenbrunnwerk, commemorates the city's citizens who fell in World War I. It stands at the eastern, lower-lying end of the garden, directly in front of the Bavarian State Chancellery building. The memorial consists of a rectangular pit clad in shell limestone, containing a walk-in crypt made of travertine blocks. Visitors reach the interior via narrow, angled staircases along the long sides, whose walls display reliefs of marching soldiers and a field of graves. At the center of the crypt sits an larger-than-life figure of a dead soldier, originally made of red marble and later replaced with a bronze cast. Designed by Karl Knappe, Thomas Wechs, and Eberhard Finsterwalder, the memorial was dedicated in 1924 and completed in 1928. It bears the inscription "They shall rise again" and is now a protected historic monument.