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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 77813, member: 44"]>... shield thing could have been a Nazi-era addition ... <</p><p><br /></p><p>You could well be right! Like you I couldn't find a lion statue like this on a bridge or anywhere in Germany, Austria or any Nazis possession before, during or after WWII. </p><p><br /></p><p>>... I think it's a canal rather than a river...<</p><p><br /></p><p>I had the same thought.</p><p><br /></p><p>>... looks like a Brunswick lion... <</p><p><br /></p><p>It certainly looks like the Brunswick lion. The original is in a Brunswick castle today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Brunswick Lion in 1900:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Loewensaeule_Braunschweig_1900.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Loewensaeule_Braunschweig_1900.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Loewensaeule_Braunschweig_1900.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There are several copies around the world today. A replica stands today in the Burgplatz in Brunswick.</p><p><br /></p><p>Replica in Goslar, Germany in 1900:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Goslar_Braunschweiger_Loewe_%282006%29.JPG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Goslar_Braunschweiger_Loewe_%282006%29.JPG" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Goslar_Braunschweiger_Loewe_(2006).JPG</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Lubeck, Germany:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:BSLoewegrKopieHLfullview.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:BSLoewegrKopieHLfullview.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:BSLoewegrKopieHLfullview.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Schwerin, Germany:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Schweriner_Dom_Loewe.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Schweriner_Dom_Loewe.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Schweriner_Dom_Loewe.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and even one at Harvard University!</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Lion_in_courtyard,_Harvard_University.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Lion_in_courtyard,_Harvard_University.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Lion_in_courtyard,_Harvard_University.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Finding all these replicas, it could be one of the replicas that vanished with WWII.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 77813, member: 44"]>... shield thing could have been a Nazi-era addition ... < You could well be right! Like you I couldn't find a lion statue like this on a bridge or anywhere in Germany, Austria or any Nazis possession before, during or after WWII. >... I think it's a canal rather than a river...< I had the same thought. >... looks like a Brunswick lion... < It certainly looks like the Brunswick lion. The original is in a Brunswick castle today. Brunswick Lion in 1900: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Loewensaeule_Braunschweig_1900.jpg[/URL] There are several copies around the world today. A replica stands today in the Burgplatz in Brunswick. Replica in Goslar, Germany in 1900: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Goslar_Braunschweiger_Loewe_%282006%29.JPG[/URL] Lubeck, Germany: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:BSLoewegrKopieHLfullview.jpg[/URL] Schwerin, Germany: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Schweriner_Dom_Loewe.jpg[/URL] and even one at Harvard University! [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Lion#/media/File:Lion_in_courtyard,_Harvard_University.jpg[/URL] Finding all these replicas, it could be one of the replicas that vanished with WWII. --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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