Tannenberg memorial tower roofs
Tannenberg memorial tower roofs
from public images on web I have these photos from Tannenberg Memorial, I notice different shape end in the structures I mean last floor and roof so any info??
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Re: Tannenberg memorial tower roofs
Check this.
The sequence of photos is clearly not chronological
It is hard to separate which ceremony is which.
Maybe they could be dated by helmet / uniform design.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaK_fitvh3Q
Speer made some changes for the Hindenburg interment.
Edit
Modernisation of the memorial
[but nothing specific to the roofs]
Following the interment of Hindenburg, the memorial once again became a national shrine. To add to the theatre, the government of the Reich again called upon the architectural firm of Krüger in Berlin and using the Stonehenge parallel again; above the entrance, a giant stone (symbolically from Königsberg) was placed, with the Field Marshall's name inscribed upon it. This stone was so large that railway bridges had to be strengthened to aid its transportation. Two giant stone soldiers (as if on guard) were placed outside the tomb. A porphyry statue of the victor, by the East Prussian Friedrich Bagdons, dominated the Hall of Honour above the tomb. The concourse grass was replaced with stone and around the memorial landscape were placed (historically inaccurate) interpretations of the Aryan German presence in East Prussia since the stone age.[5]
Hindenburg was originally buried in the central yard or "plaza" of the monument on 7 August 1934. On 2 October 1935, the anniversary of Hindenburg's birthday, the President's bronze coffin was relocated to a new, sombre chamber where he was joined by his wife Gertrud, who was moved from the family plot in Hanover. The new crypt, which was completed in the fall of 1935, was located directly below the south tower. To create an entrance to the crypt, Hindenburg and the 20 unknown German soldiers from the 1914 battle were temporarily disinterred, and the level of the plaza was lowered by 8 feet (2.4 m), with stone steps surrounding it on all sides.[6] The unknown soldiers were re-interred in the side chapels.[7] Designed by the Kruger brothers and carved by Paul Bronisch, the entrance to Hindenburg's crypt was dominated by two fourteen-foot sculptures of the Eternal Watch, known as the Ewige Wache, which were carved out of more than 120 tons of imported Konigsberg granite. The mausoleum had a dramatic vaulted ceiling.
http://www.isnare.com/encyclopedia/Tannenberg_Memorial
The sequence of photos is clearly not chronological
It is hard to separate which ceremony is which.
Maybe they could be dated by helmet / uniform design.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaK_fitvh3Q
Speer made some changes for the Hindenburg interment.
http://www.archive.org/stream/Inside_th ... r_djvu.txtI had a high wooden stand built in the inner courtyard. Decorations
were limited to banners of black crepe hung from the high towers that
framed the inner courtyard
Edit
Modernisation of the memorial
[but nothing specific to the roofs]
Following the interment of Hindenburg, the memorial once again became a national shrine. To add to the theatre, the government of the Reich again called upon the architectural firm of Krüger in Berlin and using the Stonehenge parallel again; above the entrance, a giant stone (symbolically from Königsberg) was placed, with the Field Marshall's name inscribed upon it. This stone was so large that railway bridges had to be strengthened to aid its transportation. Two giant stone soldiers (as if on guard) were placed outside the tomb. A porphyry statue of the victor, by the East Prussian Friedrich Bagdons, dominated the Hall of Honour above the tomb. The concourse grass was replaced with stone and around the memorial landscape were placed (historically inaccurate) interpretations of the Aryan German presence in East Prussia since the stone age.[5]
Hindenburg was originally buried in the central yard or "plaza" of the monument on 7 August 1934. On 2 October 1935, the anniversary of Hindenburg's birthday, the President's bronze coffin was relocated to a new, sombre chamber where he was joined by his wife Gertrud, who was moved from the family plot in Hanover. The new crypt, which was completed in the fall of 1935, was located directly below the south tower. To create an entrance to the crypt, Hindenburg and the 20 unknown German soldiers from the 1914 battle were temporarily disinterred, and the level of the plaza was lowered by 8 feet (2.4 m), with stone steps surrounding it on all sides.[6] The unknown soldiers were re-interred in the side chapels.[7] Designed by the Kruger brothers and carved by Paul Bronisch, the entrance to Hindenburg's crypt was dominated by two fourteen-foot sculptures of the Eternal Watch, known as the Ewige Wache, which were carved out of more than 120 tons of imported Konigsberg granite. The mausoleum had a dramatic vaulted ceiling.
http://www.isnare.com/encyclopedia/Tannenberg_Memorial
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