Invalidenfriedhof seit 1748 in Berlins Mitte

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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invalide... • The cemetery was established in 1748 to provide burial grounds for those wounded in the War of the Austrian Succession, who inhabited a nearby hostel built on the orders of Frederick II of Prussia. A royal decree of 1824 declared that the Invalidenfriedhof should become the burial ground for all distinguished Prussian military personnel, including Bogislav Count Tauentzien von Wittenberg. One of the most notable tombs from this period is that of Gerhard von Scharnhorst (a hero of the Napoleonic Wars), designed by Schinkel with a sculpture of a slumbering lion cast out of captured cannon by Rauch. The cemetery was also the resting place of the soldiers killed during the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. By 1872, approximately 18,000 funerals had taken place in the cemetery.

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