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Minensucher-Denkmal

Minensucher-Denkmal, Naval memorial in Cuxhaven, Germany.

The Minensucher-Denkmal is a memorial at Bei der Alten Liebe in Cuxhaven, consisting of a 4.5-metre-high stone pillar topped with a real sea mine from the First World War. A surrounding wall serves as a breastwork. It was designed by Kapitänleutnant Erich Bodanowitz and built for the Hamburger Minensuchkameradschaft.

The memorial was built to plans by Kapitänleutnant Erich Bodanowitz and inaugurated on 9 June 1935 during a meeting of minesweeper veterans. The Hamburg Minesweeper Comradeship commissioned it to honour the fallen of the minesweeping units. Cuxhaven had hosted a naval base from 1905 to 1991, and about 300 minesweeping vessels lay there at the end of World War I. A local support association restored the memorial between 2005 and 2008.

The memorial was built by the Hamburger Minensuchkameradschaft, a veterans' association of minesweeping crews, which dedicated it to their fallen comrades. It was inaugurated on 9 June 1935 during a meeting of minesweepers. The design is by Kapitänleutnant Erich Bodanowitz, and a real World War I sea mine sits atop the 4.5-metre-high monument.

The monument is located right near the harbor and is easy to reach on foot. It is best to visit during daylight hours to properly see the details of the memorial and the surrounding harbor landscape.

The memorial was designed by Kapitänleutnant Erich Bodanowitz and inaugurated on 9 June 1935 during a meeting of minesweeper veterans; the Hamburg Minesweeper Comradeship commissioned it to honour the fallen of the minesweeping units. A real World War I sea mine sits on the 4.5-metre-high monument, which was restored by a support association between 2005 and 2008.

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