Sentry box

A sentry is a mobile or immobile shelter for military sentry before barracks, military depots, camps, etc., before the seats of potentates and before honor painting, formerly in front of government sitting and town halls.

As a museum relics of the Middle Ages can be found today at drawbridges here and there in front of the castle and ramparts.

Signs houses are mostly made of wood, measuring approximately 1.50 x 1.00 m in plan and are between 2.5 and 3 m high. They have a roof and have on the wider front a sufficient opening so that a soldier can occur for protection in extreme sunlight with gun in the sentry box in the rain and snow, or in the summer. They seldom have a bench to sit on.

Signs houses are painted in striking the rule, for example with diagonal stripes in the national colors: black and white for Prussia, white and blue for Bavaria or red and white for the Hanseatic cities, or in the colors of the branches of service. Occasionally, as external signs and coat of arms mounted on them.

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