Denkmal Truemmerfrau

Monument to the women who helped to clear and reconstruct Germany & Austria

Trümmerfrau is a german word that literally means ruins woman or rubble woman and is the is word used for women who helped clear and reconstruct the bombed cities of Germany and Austria, in the afterm...

Remember the postwar period

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Dresden was one of the cities that were strongly bombarded and destroyed in World War II. Without the drummer women, Germany would not have been rebuilt so quickly. We have much to verda to you ...

She deserved a monument

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The monument of the Trummerwoman is directly in front of the council house in the southeast of the historical old town of Dresden. From the cross church you are walking in less than two minutes. The work e...

Women's work

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The statue called Trummerfrau “Women of the Mazes” is located in front of the Neue Rathaus (New Municipality) to remember the hard work of women in the reconstruction of Dresden after the bombings of ...