The approximately ten-metre-high monument in the Old Cemetery shows an obelisk with a crown, which stands on a high pedestal with a pedestal; it was designed by the Wiesbaden architect Christian Dähne and unveiled on 18 October 1874.

Rocks from Alsace-Lorraine, the then regained "Reichsland", were used for the 1.50 m high pedestal. The columnar corners of the pedestal made of Bavarian granite are decorated with garlands of oak leaves framing the Iron Cross. The corners of the pedestal are crowned by four imperial eagles. In the rectangular fields between them are the names of the places where the German armies were victorious in 1870/71: "WÖRTH, METZ, SEDAN, PARIS". On the four sides of the obelisk, bronze plaques commemorate the 110 fallen officers and men of the city of Wiesbaden. The projecting cornice, decorated with foliage and animal heads, is topped by a hemisphere with a life-size statue of Victoria. She holds a laurel wreath in her right hand and a palm of victory in her left. The 80 graves with memorial stones, which were originally laid out in a semicircle around the memorial, have been leveled. The figure of Victoria and the four bronze eagles were created by the sculptor Hermann Schies. All the bronze work for the memorial was produced in a Berlin foundry.

Today, the memorial is in a badly damaged condition; the bronze eagles and three memorial plaques are missing.