Talk:Eiserner Mann

I thought this info was rare enough to add :) I'll probably do a careful translate of the German sign sometime and post it. --cjwalters

I tried to clean up the English translation but this sentence just doesn't make sense: "Dieses war offenbar als Aufhängevorrichtung für Transport und Weiterverarbeitung gedacht vereitelte als Verankerung bisher jeden Versuch, den Barren gewaltsam zu entfernen." (NB There are two verbs in it: gedacht and vereitelte) Pcernak 16:01, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

There's obviously an "und" missing in the German sentence. It should read "... gedacht und vereitelte ...". So it would translate: "The T-end was obviously meant as a supporting device for transport and subsequent treatment. Acting as an anchorage it has so far defeated each attempt of removing the ingot by force." Strange to see the Iron Man in the English Wikipedia. Stranger still to see it dubbed an OOPART. I grew up in the vicinity and saw that piece of iron in my youth. A friend of mine used to meet his girlfriend there. Never thought there was anything esoteric about it. BTW, there's a full-length photo of the piece (during the excavation in the 70ies) with one branch of the T-end clearly showing, here: http://www.heimatfreunde-roisdorf.de/eiserner.html Alex 22:10, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

OOPArt
Why, exactly, is this an OOPArt? I didn't see any information in the article saying that this was out of the ordinary for the Roman empire, or whenever it is thought to date from. NCartmell 22:30, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Name
Why is it called the 'Iron Man'? From the picture, it doesn't look like a human figure, just a lumpy rectangular bar. Fasrad 04:29, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That just happens to be its traditional name. Those who gave it are long dead, so it would be difficult to ask them. -- 85.179.171.217 (talk) 19:30, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Location
Also, why are its supposed cooridnates: 50.70757° N by 6.96105° E, which if you put into Google Earth brings you to a location in Florida, USA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.207.118.246 (talk) 00:33, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, they don't. That's in Germany. 134.53.131.50 (talk) 15:18, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Different measures
The ones in the lead paragraph and the ones in the sign text do not match... --Againme (talk) 21:05, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Article name: grammar
German grammar would require the article title to be either "Der Eiserne Mann" or "Eiserner Mann", as the form of the adjective changes depending on the presence or absence of the definite article. I know German grammar sucks ;-) but still shouldn't this article adhere to it, as long as the title is in German? -- 85.179.171.217 (talk) 19:29, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * what he says, the grammar is just wrong in the moment. Elvis untot (talk) 18:29, 30 May 2011 (UTC)