Marine-Ehrenmal Laboe

Museum in Laboe, Germany

The Laboe Naval Memorial (a.k.a. Laboe Tower, German: Marine-Ehrenmal Laboe) is a memorial located in Laboe, northeast of Kiel in eastern Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Started in 1927 and completed in 1936 as a war memorial, the monument originally commemorated the war dead of Germany's World War I navy, the Kaiserliche Marine; with the Kriegsmarine dead of World War II being added after 1945. In 1954 it was rededicated as a memorial for the sailors of all nationalities who were lost at sea and at the same time a memorial for peaceful sailing in open seas. The monument consists of a 72-metre-hi

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Where:
Laboe, Germany

Coordinates:
54.41°N, 10.23°E

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