Soviet soldiers emptied Blücher's mausoleum in 1945, and his family lost the Silesian estate

In 1814 Frederick William III created Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher Prince of Wahlstatt and gave him the Krieblowitz estate near Breslau. Blücher died there on 12 September 1819. His embalmed body was placed in a church crypt. A granite mausoleum was built from 1846 to 1853, and he was placed in it in a copper coffin. The family held the estate until 1945. In early 1945 Soviet soldiers took the mummified remains of Blücher, his wife and his daughter from their coffins and dragged them behind a motorcycle. Reports that they used his skull as a football are unconfirmed^†. The parish priest of nearby Sośnica gathered the bones and put them in a coffin in his church crypt, but it is not known which coffin. Bones were still being collected until 1968^†. In 2012 the palace castellan said the mausoleum was empty and its fittings stolen. The Blücher land became Polish state property after 1945. In 2026 the palace is a hotel^†, and the mausoleum stands empty.