No less than 65 equestrian statues of Wilhelm I have been created and erected over the years. Fifty of these statues were destroyed, most of them (31) during WW II, 5 before and 9 after that war and unknown when 5. Of the remaining 15 statues one was sold at an auction in 1981 to a private person and one was reconstructed, leaving 15 equestrian statues of Wilhelm I in public space.
In Goslar there is, like in Kyffhäuser, a combination of Redbeard and Whitebeard, in this case in the form of two equestrian statues of Barbarossa and Wilhelm I, situated very attractively in front of the eleventh century Imperial House.
