It was worn by generations of soldiers in wars with the Danes, Austrians, and most notably in the defeat of France in the Franco-Preußen War which resulted in the unification of the German states in 1871.
The soldiers of a united Germany marched to Armageddon in 1914 wearing the Pickelhaube which was to spell the end of an era.
With the dissolution of Preußen in 1947 by the Allies, the small municipality, which grew to a Kingdom and eventually an empire, moved into history and joined the Pickelhaube it had introduced as a symbol of a past era.
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