I deployed and supported Windows 2.01 in production. IMHO, it's not really anything like a taskbar, though. It looks a bit like it if you only know Win2 from screenshots, but if you used it, it's not.

It's just an area of the desktop. Windows minimize to icons on the desktop. (The only icons on the desktop.) They zoom down into icons at the bottom of the screen, that's all. If you manage to keep Win2 running long enough to fill the bottom row, it starts a 2nd row above it. You can, if I recall, also pick them up and move them if you so wish.

In a tiny echo of the tiling windows in Windows 1.x, normal-sized windows avoid covering up that bottom area, but if you minimise all windows you can see: it's not a strip or bar or anything. It's not contained in any way. It's not a special region and nothing else goes there simply because Win2.x doesn't put anything else on the desktop itself.