kriegswahrzeichen

Taube Memorial, Gotha (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 6 older comments, and then…
• swanq said:

  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

• Art Siegel said:

  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:

• Seth Gaines said:

  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.

• B-59 said:

  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
  
  see comments there

• Art Siegel said:

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