Sono sempre stato affascinato da questo simbolo. Ammetto che ha il suo fascino e lo vedo molto in molte precedenti città della DDR. Ma mi chiedo sempre se i semafori durano oltre 30 anni o se molte autorità non sono disposte a cambiare il loro design, o forse lo stanno preservando attivamente?
https://i.redd.it/9zopufabhcof1.png
di welliamaguy
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Why should the change it, if it still is good to go?
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ost-Ampelm%C3%A4nnchen](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ost-Ampelm%C3%A4nnchen)
I have a coffee cup that I bought in Berlin with those symbols…
They are actively preserving it. Most of the traffic lights where changed to the boring symbols in the early nineties…
They are actively preserved. Yes.
They tried to replace them with the West Version but that was not appreciated by the population which lead to the return of the East German Ampelmännchen
And just because it is 35 years since reunification.
Germany has 3 Signaling Standards which were supposed to be unified by now with similar but different signaling lights including standardization of any Railway crossings (which turned out that each is a 1:1 variant)
Deutsche Bundesbahn (West)- H/L System
Deutsche Reichsbahn (East) – Hl System
Deutsche Bahn (Unified)- KS System
They are renewing the lights with the same design. After reunification it was decided that they can keep using this design and people like it so there is no reason to change it.
On the left side Die Grüne, on the right side CDU/CSU.
I dont know why but this symbol just looks so German to me. Just like an old German man walking with his hat on 😂
Some cities even have special Ampelmännchen versions. Mainz has the Mainzelmännchen, Emden has Otto Waalkes, Hanau has the Grimm Brothers.
I live in the deep south-west and some newly-built traffic lights here actually use these.
When I first saw the walking man while crossing the street in Dresden, I thought it was vandalism to show him walking with an erection. I still don’t know what he is supposed to be holding.
They are not only actively preserving them, they are constantly expanding them into what was formerly West Berlin (and other West Germany cities as well)
The Ampelmännchen and the Sandmännchen are the biggest cultural icons from the DDR that are incredibly beloved in current Germany