List of obelisks

This List of obelisks contains an incomplete list of obelisks sorted by their (current) country.

Argentinia

• Buenos Aires Obelisco de Buenos Aires, erected in 1936

Austria

• Vienna, Schlosspark Schönbrunn, Obeliskbrunnen

Czech Republic

• Prague: Mrákotínský monolit

Denmark

• Copenhagen: Liberty Column, Copenhagen

Egypt

• Assuan
  • Unfinished obelisk
• Heliopolis
• Cairo
  • Al Andalus (Zamalek)
  • Cairo International Airport
• Luxor/Karnak
  • Luxor temple
  • Karnak temple
  • Museum Luxor

Ethiopia

• Aksum

France

• Paris: Luxor obelisk on the Place de la Concorde
• Arles: Place de la République, 23 m

Germany

• Aachen: Lousberg Obelisk, Lousberg
• Bad Salzuflen: Rudolph-Brandes-Obelisk
• Berlin: Städtischer Friedhof Altglienicke: Mahnmal für Opfer des ersten Weltkrieges
• Bergen-Belsen, KZ Bergen-Belsen cemetery
• Braunschweig: Löwenwall (former Monumentplatz)
• Bremen: Linnaeus obelisk im Park von Höpkensruh
• Buchenwald, KZ Buchenwald
• Darmstadt: Alice obelisk (in front of St. Ludwigskirche)
• Dresden:
  • Heidefriedhof
  • Aussichtspunkt Collenbuschstraße from 1861
• Erfurt: Erthal Obelisk, Domplatz
• Frankfurt am Main, Kurfürstenplatz (fountain)
• Karlsruhe: Obelisk (Verfassungssäule) on Rondellplatz from 1826

Obelisk des Titus Sextius Africanus (Munich)

• Koblenz:
  • Clemensbrunnen, 1791
  • Denkmal für die Gefallenen des Feldzugs von 1866, right Rhine river waterfront
• Landshut, Bismarckplatz
• Leipzig: KZ-Außenlager Leipzig-Thekla, Lager Theklaer Straße/Heiterblickstraße in Abtnaundorf
• Munich:
  • Obelisk on Karolinenplatz, height: 29 Meter
  • obelisk dedicated to Titus Sextius Africanus in Staatlichen Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, around 50, height: 5.80 Meter
  • Justizpalast, roof (Lenbachplatz-Fassade)
• Ohrdruf near "Hühnernest" of the military training ground
• Potsdam:
  • Alter Markt from 1753–1755, designed by G. W. v. Knobelsdorffs.
  • Breite Straße/Lindenstraße
  • Obeliskportal: entrance to Sanssouci from 1747 by Knobelsdorff.
  • Neuer Garten Potsdam: Marmorobelisk from 1793/94, designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans
• Rheinsberg: Obelisk from the 1790s
• Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock: Stammlager VI K (326): Soviet cemetery
• Wiesbaden: Luisenplatz
• Halde Hoheward (Herten)
• Münster at Clemenskirche

Israel

• Caesarea, 12 m

Italy

• Rome → List of obelisks in Rome
• Urbino: Piazza del Rinascimento
• Florence, Boboli Gardens (behind Palazzo Pitti)
• Catania (Sicily), Piazza del Duomo

Latvia

• Riga cemetery, from 1920, height c. 2.20 m

Poland

• Warsaw: Igła Kleopatry

Russia

Krasnodar

• Krasnodar
• Saint Petersburg

Switzerland

• Bern: Kornhausbrücke

Singapore

• Singapore: Dalhousie Obelisk near Empress Place, Downtown Core (1850)

Syria

• Ashur-bel-kala

Turkey

• Istanbul: Obelisk of Theodosius

Ukraine

• Kiev, height 43 m

United Kingdom

Cleopatra’s Needle (London)

• London: Cleopatra’s Needle near Victoria Embankment, height 20,78 m
• Kingston Lacy: Philae obelisk, height 6.70 m, 2nd century B.C.
• British Museum: black obelisk and Nimrud obelisk
• University of Durham

United States of America

• New York City
  • Cleopatra’s Needle in the Central Park
  • Broken Obelisk, also known as Black Needle (modern plastic) von Barnett Newman, 1963–1969 (Museum of Modern Art, New York), 8 m
• Washington, D.C.
  • Washington Monument

Literature

• Henry H. Gorringe: Egyptian Obelisks. New York 1882.

External links

Media related to Obelisks at Wikimedia Commons

• Private List by Shoji Okamoto at the Wayback Machine (archived October 17, 2007)