 He was buried on 16 March at the Mausoleum at Park Charlottenburg.To honour him a large number of memorials/statues were erected all over the country over the following years.The best-known among them are the Kyffhäuser monument (1890–96) in Thuringia, the monument at Porta Westfalica (1896) and the mounted statue of William at the Deutsches Eck in Koblenz (1897).