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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 78788, member: 56"]I wasn't watching this because I thought it was leading nowhere. Shows what I know! Congrats to rhiwfield on the catch.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a postcard that shows Konigsallee without even a plinth, but all the buildings are different.</p><p><a href="http://www.library.ohiou.edu/archives/ead/postcards/Scans-Book%201%20Germany/22_Dusseldorf_Konigsallee.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.library.ohiou.edu/archives/ead/postcards/Scans-Book%201%20Germany/22_Dusseldorf_Konigsallee.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.library.ohiou.edu/archives/ead/postcards/Scans-Book 1 Germany/22_Dusseldorf_Konigsallee.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I found an article that said the lion was put in place 1910 (it was a heraldic symbol of the city and had 2 tails) but the article didn't say what happened to it. It did say that another lion was commissioned and installed in 1963, but not at that site.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dusseldorf was heavily bombed in 1943 and my guess would be that the lion was destroyed.</p><p> </p><p>There's currently a post card on eBay, Germany that says it's from 1945 and shows the lion in place (without the flags), but I imagine the image is much older than 1945.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 78788, member: 56"]I wasn't watching this because I thought it was leading nowhere. Shows what I know! Congrats to rhiwfield on the catch. Here's a postcard that shows Konigsallee without even a plinth, but all the buildings are different. [URL]http://www.library.ohiou.edu/archives/ead/postcards/Scans-Book%201%20Germany/22_Dusseldorf_Konigsallee.jpg[/URL] I found an article that said the lion was put in place 1910 (it was a heraldic symbol of the city and had 2 tails) but the article didn't say what happened to it. It did say that another lion was commissioned and installed in 1963, but not at that site. Dusseldorf was heavily bombed in 1943 and my guess would be that the lion was destroyed. There's currently a post card on eBay, Germany that says it's from 1945 and shows the lion in place (without the flags), but I imagine the image is much older than 1945.[/QUOTE]
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