 Designed by architect Bruno Schmitz (1858–1916), it is the third-largest monument in Germany.Schmitz has also designed the two largest memorials, the Monument to the Battle of the Nations, that commemorates the 1813 Battle of Leipzig and the Emperor William Monument at the Porta Westfalica.The monument has a total height of and is located at an elevation of on top of an long outcrop of the eastern Kyffhäuser range, below the high mountain peak of the Kyffhausen Castle.