The Sites of Memory webpage continues to grow. I have now added five new pages with memorials from the German city of Muehlacker/Enz and downtown Stuttgart. The new sites include cemeteries for the fallen of both world wars as well as two Franco-Prussian War markers. There are now 44 pages with over 50 memorials and a total of 386 photos.

The monument to the Franco-Prussian War (shown in image) is an example of a relic with virtually no current relevance occupying prime real estate. On the one hand, nobody pays any attention to it, other than the teenagers who sit around on it on summer evenings and drink beer and smoke. I don't even think tourists take much notice of it. It takes up a full city block only two or three blocks off of the prime shopping street in Stuttgart, right off of Schlossplatz, where all the tourists come. On purely rational, economic grounds, it should probably be destroyed or moved to some park somewhere and the space used for something else. On the other hand, the city is obviously still spending money on its maintenance. The statue, pedastal and obelisks are all in very good condition. The obelisks appear to have been recently rennovated at no small cost. The inscriptions listing the battles and events of the war are clearly readable in gold script.