Queen Luise Monument Gransee

The memorial commemorates the transfer of the beloved Prussian Queen Luise (1776-1810), who died at the age of only 34. Since the distance from the place of death, Hohenzieritz in Mecklenburg, to Berlin could not be covered in one day, the funeral procession stopped off in Gransee. On the night of 25 to 26 July 1810, the coffin was laid out on the market square, today's Schinkelplatz. The citizens of Gransee wanted to erect a monument to their queen at this place and collected donations for this purpose. Karl Friedrich Schinkel provided the design, which was realised by the Königliche Eisengießerei Berlin. The monument was inaugurated one year after her death.

As if the queen were buried here, it shows a sarcophagus with a crown on a pedestal, protected from wind and weather by a filigree canopy. Her final resting place, however, was in the mausoleum in Charlottenburg Palace Park in Berlin.