In Germany 40yrs ago we went on a school trip somewhere that had a colossal black statue of a manWhere was it?

Question

No it's none of them. I know the feet of this enormous statue were on ground level and we stood beside them, they were monstrous in size.

Answer 1

It's possible you are talking about the statue of Kaiser Wilhelm in Koblenz. It's on a large pedestal but the statue is revered by the Germans. The statue overlooks where the Rhine and Mosel rivers meet

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I think I'm stumped but try this website if you haven't already. It shows all? of the staues in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. Good luck

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Catego...

Answer 2

Probably it was the Roland statue in Bremen in the northern part of Germany close to the North Atlantic. Did the statue have a sword?

Can anybody tell me why this is a "thumb down" answer?

Answer 3

It wasn’t 40, but 50 years ago when we went to North Rhein Westfalen on a school exchange scheme from Yorkshire. We swapped with the Siegesstrasse Gymnasium of Wuppertal and I can remember a few  black statues, starting from Mina Knallenfalls and the knight of Schloss Burg.  

Answer 4

Well, I live in Nordrhein-Westfalen and the only statues I know of, which seem to match your description are:

The "Bismarck-Denkmal" in Düren (although this one's not really that large):

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismarck-De...

The "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal an der Porta Westfalica":

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser-Wilh...

Or maybe "De Verwoeste Stad" in Rotterdam, Netherlands, which is not too far away if you were near the dutch border.

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Verwoest...

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Last try: Kriegerdenkmal am Galgenberg (although, this one's in Niedersachsen, it's not far from NRW)

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegerdenk...

Maybe it would help if you could describe the statue a bit more. If you were west of the rhine, near Cologne for example, the statue might even be of Roman origin...

Answer 5

I would also go for the Hermannsdenkmal

P.S. It would help to let us know if you were in the North or the South of Germany

If you were a UK Army  "brat" then you probably wen to the Hermannsdenkmal as it is close to many Army barracks.

Answer 6

There is an enormous statue of a Russian soldier holding a child in the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin. It's standing on top of a small round shrine type building on a hill at one end of the park. Ground level to soldier's helmet must be at least 40'.