Waterloosäule

victory column in Hannover, Germany
VisualArtwork victory_column Q1506821
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Summary

Waterloosäule is a victory column[1]. Waterloosäule draws 260 Wikipedia views per month (victory column category, ranking #27 of 32).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: August Hengst[3], Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves[4]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Mitte[5]
  • Country: Germany[6]
  • Instance of: statue[7], war memorial[8]
  • Genre: public art[9]
  • Location: Waterlooplatz[10]
  • Commons category: Waterloosäule (Hannover)[11]
  • Inception: 1832[12]
  • Located on street: Waterlooplatz[13]
  • Heritage designation: architectural heritage monument in Lower Saxony[14]
  • Height: 46.31 m[15]
  • Diameter: 3.5 m[16]
  • Located in the statistical territorial entity: Calenberger Neustadt[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Monument Map Lower Saxony. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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  1. 21d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'de', 'en', 'nl', 'pl']
    Gnd id → 1156574749
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 20w ago · Hofoen · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinates → —
    Country → —
    Instance of → victory column, statue, war memorial
    Inception → +1832-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Heritage designation: architectural heritage monument in Lower Saxony"
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