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Acording to www.akpool.co.uk/postcards/24155901-postcard-gotha-eisene... this statue was erected Sept 26, 1915. According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etrich_Taube The Taube was a "pre-World War I monoplane aircraft. It was the first mass-produced military plane in Germany." www.pictorialgems.com/1916-Gotha-Taube-Memorial-To-German... shows this picture printed in the Illustrated War News of February 16, 1916

This plane with the birdlike tail (the name translates to English as "dove") was reportedly responsible for bombings in Paris in October, 1914.
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A07E4DA1438E0...
A Bain photo of the damage:

It looks like the sort of memorial you could pay to drive a nail into. See the leading edge of the wing, and the engine.

Seth Gaines That's correct, the memorial is on a list of "Kriegsnagelungen" (war nailings) (with the same postcard as in swanq's comment), see www.munzel-everling.de/download/Kriegsnagelungen_August_2....

Another example of such a memorial was the "Eiserne Hindenburg" in Berlin Tiergarten

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""Kriegsnagelungen". I never knew of these, thanks. I wonder if this monument still exists? I can't find any trace of it.

The correct spelling might be Mining: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining I can't find a noble house von Minning or von Minning (other than a kennel of German shepherds), so it might just denote that little Hans came from Mining, a small town near Braunau in Upper Austria.

What better place for a tryst than in the shadow of the Gotha Carbonic Acid Plant.

Very touching foto

Very nice capture - congrats !

Nice photo!