Monuments and statues Archives

For decades, refugees from East Germany arrived here in West Berlin – today a memorial with the exhibition “Escape in Divided Germany”.

Bronze fountain of 2002 with a ship’s bow and figurehead in Bremerhaven’s city centre – a tribute to the barque “Seute Deern”.

Five steel plates on the main canal honour Bremerhaven pioneers – from polar explorer Alfred Wegener to shipbuilder Georg Wilhelm Claussen.

Four 18-metre presidential heads carved into the granite of the Black Hills in South Dakota – one of the best-known monuments in the USA,…