Beginning in mid-1937, the company Siemens & Halske AG installed 114 sirens all across Dresden. One of these “large warning devices” was located on top of the residential building at Dürerstraße 91, ready for operation in 1939. In the course of the Second World War, Dresden’s sirens warned the local population of Allied planes approximately 300 times – at the turn of the year 1944/45 every other day, and in April 1945 several times a day.
The siren on the residential building Dürerstraße 91 sounded the alarm for the last time on the evening of 13 February 1945, at 9.39pm. The building burned down after the first air raid of that night, as did all the neighbouring buildings. After the war the ruins of the buildings surrounding Dürerplatz were removed and the whole area, including the former square, was built up.

Marked in 2001