This would have kept me occupied for the summer as a child

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"Sirens by the Sea," 1896

Viktor Karlovich Shtember

"Two Boys with Slingshots in a Summer Meadow"

Geza Peske
(1859–1934)

Trutzig auf zum Himmel ragen
deine Felsen raue Röhn
auf den Kuppen Wolken jagen
durch die Täler streicht der Föhn

Einsam schau ich hoch vom Gipfel
in die kratertiefe Schlucht
Drüben lugt durch Eichenwipfel
Gottes blaue Himmelsbucht

Rauhe Röhn, auf deinen Matten
hab ich oftmals still geruht
trank aus deiner Wälder Schatten
Jugendlust und Wandermut

Bin wie deine Felsenkämme
trutzgestählt und hart und stolz
bin wie deine Eichenkämme
aus urechtem Kattenholz

Kraft gab mir die Fuldawelle
wo sie schäumend klingt und rauscht
an geheimer Runenstelle
hab ich Odins Spruch gelauscht

Odins Spruch soll mich geleiten
durch des Lebens Kampfgetön
Und nach meinem letzten Streiten
gib mir Frieden, rauhe Röhn!

-Heinrich Gutberlet, geboren am 24.05.1877 Hersfeld – verstorben am 19.05.1953 in Zweibrücken / Pfalz-
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The pilots' memorial on the Wasserkuppe - the mountain of pilots - consists of basalt stones as a foundation and an eagle sculpture made of bronze, which was created by the sculptor and animal sculptor Professor August Gaul.

It was erected in 1923 in memory of the fallen pilots of the First World War (1914 - 1918), on the initiative of an association of former front-line pilots. According to estimates of the reporter of the Fuldaer Zeitung, 100,000 people attended the inauguration on August 30, 1923.

The inscription on the airmen's memorial reads:

"WE
DEAD AIRMEN REMAINED
SIEGER
BY US ALONE.
PEOPLE,
YOU FLY AGAIN
AND YOU WILL BE
WINNER
THROUGH YOU
ALONE."

The words must be understood from the spirit of those times after the lost First World War, which were strongly marked by deprivations of the population, reparation payments and inflation.

Kurt Tucholsky rightly criticized the monument and the cult of the glider pilots in the 1920s in the Weltbühne. The inscription was "beautiful, but wrong. The dead aviators are those who were shot down, i.e. defeated - which certainly does not disgrace them. But to construct a victory from a shooting down, which in the opposite case is celebrated as a glory, is surely not acceptable."

From the airmen's memorial, one has a magnificent view over the Rhön.

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