<p><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kiel" title="Kiel">Kiel</a>, Vineta place. Inscription: Vineta nihil aeternum.
</p><p>This head originally was part of a building decoration on the "art nouveau" buildings on the west side of Vineta square (Elisabethstraße 62-70), the so-called "schiefe Häuser" ("leaning buildings": the ground settled shortly after they had been constructed; they were demolished 1982). The head was subsequently integrated into the fountain on the square.
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Vineta square was so named in 1903 after the cruiser <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Vineta_(1897)" class="extiw" title="en:SMS Vineta (1897)">Vineta</a></i> of the German Imperial Marine.
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>