The Kaiser's men’s medals

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Duchy of Saxony Coburg-Gotha


Silberne Verdienstmedaille (SEHO) Herzog Ernst - 1870/1 clasp


Erinnerungsmedaille zur Silberhochzeit Herzog Alfred 1899

Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen


Silberne Verdienstmedaille (SEHO) Herzog Georg - 1870/1 clasp

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Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt or Sondershausen


Silberne Medaille für Verdienst im Kriege 1914



Kingdom of Württemberg


Militär-Verdienstorden Ritterkreuz

[nachomenorca]

Very nice medalbars!!! Congrats Santi

Nacho

[VtwinVince]

Unfortunately, the first bar you show is fake, and I have serious doubts about the one from Anhalt with the Baerenorden.

[Chopperman]

Well spotted, Vince.
I completely missed that. The 1870 Ek2 and the 25 year oak leaves are both fakes.

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The back is very ugly...
We will have to upload another image....

[VtwinVince]

That's more like it, with the scarce variant oak leaves.

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Spandau: its barracks and the end of the Second World War in its fortress

Our friend Vince in #275 told us that in the postcard of the barracks in the city of Spandau, in #272, he saw the barracks building where his grandfather was stationed.

That gave me the idea of delving more into the military importance of that place, its barracks and a little of the history of its fortress and how it survived the end of World War II, without too much damage.

Let's see the information that the postcard #272 and two others give us.....



Kaserne Ruhleben
Schülerberg – Kaserne
Train - Kaserne
Bahnhof – Kaserne



Stresow Kaserne



Neue Kaserne... (and Juliusturm in the image at the bottom right)

The existence of so many barracks in the city gives us an idea of the importance of Spandau
By the way, in an excellent work from 2013 by Hans Weil, I found this other image that I think will clarify that the
Bahnhof Kaserne can also be called Stresow Kaserne I

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Before World War I, Spandau was a seat of large, government, cannon foundries, factories for making gunpowder, and other munitions of war, making it a centre of the arms industry in the German Empire.

It was also a garrison town with numerous barracks, home of the 5th Guards Infantry Brigade and the 5th Foot Guards of the German Army. In 1920, the independent city of Spandau was incorporated into Greater Berlin as a borough.





Young grenadiers from GGR No.5 at the beginning of the 20th century

So I am going to share a few images of the different barracks in the city of Spanadau that existed at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century and a few current images.

To do this I will start from the images seen on old postcards. Of course I apologize in advance for any possible errors.

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Kaserne Ruhleben


Spandau Ruhleben


Spandau Ruhleben Kaserne Hauptwache 1903