Memorial site of the Olympic assassination attempt
The Olympia-Assentat memorial site (also known as the incision memorial site ) is a memorial to the twelve victims of the attack on the Israeli team at the Summer Olympics in Munich on September 5, 1972. Located near the main crime scene in what was then the Olympic village, she informs multimedia about the eleven athletes and the police officers who were killed in the attack, as well as about its course. The pavilion in a cut in the terrain was opened on September 6, 2017 in attendance and a. President Rivlin (Israel) and Steinmeier (Germany) opened. The memorial is an institution of the Free State of Bavaria . It is intended to create “awareness and awareness of the omnipresent dangers to our freedom and our democracy”.
description
The place of remembrance is laid out as a horizontal incision in one of the hills in the northern Olympic Park in Munich Milbertshofen-Am Hart . The Lindenhügel is closed to the east, but opens to visitors on all other sides and offers lines of sight to the crime scenes. The interior, which is slightly lowered towards the surroundings, is 2.50 meters high, the hill above about 1.50 meters higher.
In the memorial, twelve information boards and personal items commemorate the victims of the attack. These were the Israeli Olympic participants
- David Mark Berger (weightlifter),
- Zeev Friedman (weightlifter),
- Yossef Gutfreund (wrestler referee),
- Eliezer Halfin (wrestler),
- Josef Romano (weightlifter),
- André Spitzer (fencing trainer),
- Amitzur Schapira (athletics trainer),
- Kehat Shorr (marksman trainer),
- Mark Slavin (wrestler),
- Yakov Springer (weightlifting referee) and
- Mosche Weinberg (wrestler trainer)
as well as the German policeman
In addition, an eleven-meter-wide media wall protected with safety glass provides information in a ten-minute loop about “what we know about the attack, what has been gathered after intensive research”. The German-language video with English subtitles runs daily between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. The video-monitored memorial is open day and night.
history
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Olympic attack on September 5 and 6, 1972, in which eleven Israeli athletes and a Munich police officer were murdered by Palestinian terrorists, the Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer announced that he would be building a memorial site together with the state capital Munich . The focus of the presentation should be the biographies of the murdered athletes. This project was financially supported by the state capital Munich, the German Olympic Sports Confederation and the International Olympic Committee . The scientific concept was developed by Werner Karg ( Bavarian State Center for Political Education ), Bernhard Purin ( Jewish Museum Munich ) and Jörg Skriebeleit ( Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial ). The architectural firm Brückner & Brückner emerged as the winner in a design selection process carried out in 2014 . Starting in autumn 2014, residents of the student village (then Olympic village) protested against the location of the memorial site being planned too close to their homes and founded a citizens' initiative. The Free State responded by relocating the site to Lindenhügel, south of Kolehmainenweg, about 250 meters southwest of the Olympiazentrum underground station in the northern part of the Olympic Park.
At the laying of the foundation stone , a bronze-colored capsule was filled in the presence of the Israeli Consul General Dan Sharam and the Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely . It contains a foundation stone certificate, a Bavarian and an Israeli daily newspaper as well as euros and shekels .
Another memorial is planned in Fürstenfeldbruck . The state parliament provided € 20,000 for the conception. The total costs amounted to around 1.676 million euros, of which the City of Munich contributed 419,000 euros. The remaining funds came from the Free State of Bavaria, the federal government, the IOC and a US foundation.
The memorial was officially opened on September 6, 2017 in the presence of relatives of the victims as well as the German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin.
Quotes
- "It's not just about commemorating the victims, but about raising awareness and raising awareness of the omnipresent dangers to our freedom and our democracy." - Charlotte Knobloch , President of the Jewish Community in Munich and Upper Bavaria
- “The memorial is supposed to remind of the terrible events, explain it, classify it historically and help draw conclusions.” - Ludwig Spaenle , Bavarian Minister of Science
See also
- Memorial to the victims of the 1972 Olympic attack
- Memorial plaque on the house at Connollystrasse 31
Web links
- www.erinnerorte-muenchen1972.de - website for the memorial of the Bavarian Ministry of Science (with additional information)
- Visualization video ( Memento from October 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
-
↑ Press release from Minister Spänle on 4.9. and
Report Bay. Broadcast of the event ( memento of October 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) - ↑ Information on the competition in the Bauwelt magazine
- ^ "A feasible way". In: sueddeutsche.de. October 30, 2015, accessed July 17, 2018 .
- ↑ https://www.garten-landschaft.de/olympia-attentat-muenchen-72/
- ^ Website of the citizens' initiative ( Memento from August 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Article in Die Welt, March 7, 2015
- ↑ http://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.attentat-von-1972-grundsteinlege-fuer-das-olympia-denkmal.a599b617-1a44-46cf-a47a-ca7cadd00c96.html
- ↑ https://www.merkur.de/lokales/fuerstenfeldbruck/olympia-attentat-landtag-gibt-20000-euro-gedenkstaette-5851202.html
- ↑ http://www.br.de/nachrichten/oberbayern/inhalt/olympia-attentat-gedenkort-100.html ( Memento from October 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.erinnerungsstaette-im-olympiapark-olympia-attentat-stadt-beteiligt-sich-an-denkmal-kosten.e88b1a72-eae8-4da5-a8ea-04699d2f1e52.html
- ↑ The city will sponsor the place of remembrance for the Olympic attack welt.de March 3, 2016
- ↑ Stroh, Kassian: "It's the first time that I laugh in Munich" at sueddeutsche.de, September 6, 2017 (accessed on September 7, 2017).
- ↑ https://www.muenchen.tv/neue-plaene-zum-gedenken-an-opfer-des-olympia-attentats-von-1972-134808/
- ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Commemoration: Why the 1972 Olympics continued after the attack. In: welt.de . October 26, 2015, accessed October 7, 2018 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 40.3 ″ N , 11 ° 32 ′ 59.8 ″ E