Commemorative plaque

A plaque is a commonly made ​​of stone or metal plaque commemorating a personality, an historical event or as a memorial.

General

Often plaques are attached to the houses in which the person lived. For example, owns Carl Friedrich Gauss in Göttingen three commemorative plaques. But they can also be generally applied to buildings such as workplaces or man-made structures such as roads, tunnels, bridges, canals, dams, towers, churches and on street name signs or cemeteries.

Different cities have their own series of commemorative plaques:

• Berlin memorial plaques there is only since the 750th anniversary of the city in 1986. They are made of porcelain.
• The Jena memorial plaques have been around since the anniversary of the university in 1858, when the first 204 plaques were hung from enamel.
• With the Göttingen plaques took over the university town in Lower Saxony in 1874 the idea, but related white marble as a material.

The scandal surrounding the Francis Drake plaque in California

A 1579 on the occasion of the landing of Francis Drake in the California Bay in honor of the British Queen verfertigte brass plaque led to a long-standing dispute in the United States. The historically documented badge was forged in 1933 by G. Ezra Dane, a member of E Clampus Vitus and four historically -studded friends. The forgery in 1936 the historian Herbert Eugene Bolton leaked, she presented with great aplomb as a sensational discovery and authentic. Until the 1970s, this forgery was deemed essential, despite counter-arguments as genuine, on display in the library of the University of California and pre- shows, among other state visits the British Queen.