List of monuments, fountains and sculptures in Senftenberg

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The urban area of ​​Senftenberg

This list shows the monuments, fountains and sculptures in Senftenberg . Senftenberg is the district town of the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in southern Brandenburg . For the purposes of this list, monuments, works of art, statues, statues, cenotaphs, memorial plaques, sculptures, sculptures and sgraffiti that are located in publicly accessible areas are considered memorials and sculptures . However, the list does not include any buildings classified as monuments. Some of these monuments have been removed, rearranged, remodeled or even destroyed from their original location. Monuments that no longer exist are listed separately. The monuments of the districts Sedlitz , Großkoschen with Kleinkoschen , Niemtsch , Peickwitz and Hosena are not included in this list. Stumbling blocks are included in the list of stumbling blocks in Senftenberg .

Most of the memorials were designed by the Senftenberg artists Günter Wendt and Ernst Sauer .

Notes on the information in the tables

• In the column Description and notes on the history , the name (if known) of the monument, a short description, if necessary the material and information on the implementation and changes are given.
• The current installation site is given as the location and, as far as possible, the street. Reference points (e.g. prominent buildings) are also mentioned here. The column is sortable.
• The artist who created the monument is named in the Artist column . No artist is named for machines or for works without a great deal of creative effort (e.g. boulders), instead a horizontal line “-” is given.
• In the columns Date of erection and Date of removal , the times are given when the monument was originally erected or finally removed. The tilde "~" in front of the date indicates that it is an approximation. The column is sortable.
• If the artist , the date of installation and, in the case of the former monuments, the date of removal are not known, the word "unknown" is entered. The column is sortable.

Monuments

image	Description and notes on the story	Location	Artist	Date of installation
	Sgraffito Hans von Polenz	Castle park gable wall of the gallery at the castle “Polenzhaus” Steindamm	Günter Wendt	1937
	Polyester concrete sculpture "Mother with Child" created in 1981 was already set up in the palace gardens; damaged by vandalism	Palace park in front of the gallery at the “Polenzhaus” Steindamm palace	Ernst Sauer	March 2008
	Plastic "Sitting Woman" Plastic was stolen in August 2017	Palace park next to the gallery at the “Polenzhaus” palace; Stone dam	Siegfried Krepp	1993
	Memorial to the Victims of Fascism and Militarism Bronze figure; behind the wall made of artificial stone (according to other information made of sandstone) with diptichon	Castle Park	Ernst Sauer	1962
	Memorial for gymnastics father Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ; set up by "Turnverein Germania"; Laying of the foundation stone on June 26, 1911	Castle Park	Mr. Munack	August 27, 1911
	Remains of the former teaching mill at the site of the former official mill	Stone dam; at the old weir	-	1994
	two ostrich sculptures originally the sculptures stood in front of the former POS V " Otto Grotewohl " after its dismantling they were implemented	Animal park	Ernst Sauer	1965
	Clinker plastic "Beggars on crutches" made in the clinker works of Ilse Bergbau AG for the Katharinenkirche in Lübeck ; Plastic was buried under rubble and was rediscovered after World War II	Palace gardens courtyard of the palace	Ernst Barlach	1945
	Oak trunk last noticeable growth ring is from the year 1163. As Fälldatum the year 1183 is assumed (+/- ten years), making it the oak trunk of the oldest evidence of woodworking in Senftenberg region. He was found near Arnsdorf .	Palace gardens courtyard of the fortress	-	~ 2000
	Miner sculpture in front of the HL	Großenhainer Straße University of Applied Sciences Lausitz	Dorothea von Philipsborn	1953
	Sgraffito on the history of mining	Großenhainer Strasse wall of the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences	Günter Wendt and Hubert Globisch	1953
	Commemorative plaque to those imprisoned in the gymnasium during National Socialism Text: COME ARTHUR WÖLK (1900–1969) Arthur Wölk was imprisoned here with many anti-fascists in 1933 and then dragged through fascist dungeons for 12 years.	Schulstrasse gym of the former POS I (later secondary school)
	Plastic of two young people in the school yard of the grammar school On the back it says: This school was built in the 35th year of the GDR many young people should leave this house cleverly and efficiently The sculpture was originally in the school yard of the EOS later grammar school in the Rudolf- Harbig Street.	Fischreiherstrasse school yard of the grammar school	Ernst Sauer	1984
	Plastic penguin family originally set up in a kindergarten, then set up in the school yard of the Realschule, then a school for the Dr. Otto Rindt Oberschule; since December 2015 in the castle park	Castle park in front of the entrance to the zoo	Ernst Sauer	1977
	Memorial stone for Anton Saefkow the school at the location of the memorial stone was called POS III "Anton Saefkow" in the GDR times	Calauer Straße Schoolyard of the Dr. Otto Rindt Oberschule		1973
	Plastic raccoon group	Joachim-Gottschalk-Straße in front of the special needs school	Ernst Sauer
	Plastic The Drinking One	Bahnhofstrasse / east promenade	Ernst Sauer	~ 2001
	Memorial plaque to Rudolf Lehmann Text: Dr. Rudolf Lehmann regional historian of Niederlausitz, born September 16, 1891, † January 14, 1984, parental home and place of work 1900–1964	Bahnhofstrasse / east promenade		January 13, 2001
	Walled stone or atonement cross in the wall of the old cemetery	Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse / August-Bebel-Strasse Old cemetery in Jüttendorf	unknown	15th century
	Memorial for victims of the Kapp Putsch or memorial stone for those who fell in March. Text: It died for freedom in the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch on 15-18. March 1920 Bruno Brückner, Willy Mund, Oskar Zeidler, Ferdinand Früh, Bruno Schurich, Joseph Kszyszkowiak “O, stand ready, be ready! Oh, make the earth in it we lie straight and rigid become completely free! That the thoughts cannot disturb us in sleep. You were free. But now again - and they are slaves forever! ”Dedicated in faithful memory by the workers of the Senftenberg industrial area	Briesker Strasse New Cemetery
	Memorial stone for forced laborers who died in Senftenberg Text: The dead admonish	Briesker Strasse New Cemetery
	Memorial stone for the devastated cemeteries of the excavated places Rauno, Sauo and Sorno-Rosendorf, flanked by two gravestones	Forest cemetery
	Monument to the development of the Lusatian Lakeland with a memorial plaque to Otto Rindt	Senftenberger Ufer des Senftenberger See - access from the south residential area		~ 2000
	Slide at the point of Senftenberger See where the Niemtsch opencast mine was flooded from November 15, 1967 to November 1972	Senftenberger Ufer des Senftenberger See - access from the See residential area	-
	Fossil sculptures ; originally set up on the terrace of the “Seeblick” excursion restaurant, after its demolition the sculptures were set up again not far from their original location	Fischreiherstraße senior residence "Seeblick"	Jürgen von Woyski	~ 1970
	Sculptures crouching and sitting ; originally in Fischerreiherstrasse; Sculptures placed at the current location in September 2009 were stolen in September / October 2017	Laugkstrasse public utility company	Jürgen von Woyski
	Commemorative plaque for 16 dead of the volunteer fire brigade during the First World War	Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße Old fire station		May 10, 1921
	War memorial in Buchwalde for those who died in the First World War and an eagle that crowned it was lost	Buchwalder Strasse Buchwalde		~ 1920
	Memorial to the Soviet soldiers of the Red Army and the liberation by the Red Army Senftenberg's of 19 and 20 April 1945 three 6.5 meter high stylized bayonets that surround a blooming plant and a clad in black marble stone block text on the Front: Glory and honor to the fallen heroes of the Soviet Army in the Great Patriotic War 1941–45 Text on the back: Mankind will never forget the millions of heroes who brought freedom to the peoples of many countries. Text in German and Russian	Briesker Strasse at the New Cemetery	Ernst Sauer	March 8, 1979
	War memorial made of Posta sandstone for those who fell in World War I ; the original location was the castle park. Monument was redesigned; 14 memorial plaques for the fallen and victims of the First World War are still preserved from the memorial, in front of which there is a round stone with thanks from the citizens of Senftenberg for the fallen (also part of the old memorial) Text: THANK YOU AND HONOR OUR BROTHERS FOR US FIGHT LITTEN AND DIE + THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY SENFTENBERG implemented because of the reconstruction of the memorial for the victims of the victims of fascism	Steindamm wall next to the Wendish Church	Mr. Schurig	August 23, 1925
	War memorial for Wilhelm Zimmermann originally erected on March 22, 1889 in Rauno; dismantled due to devastation of the place on November 16, 1926; Relocated to the inner courtyard of the fortress on May 29, 1927 by the Rauno warrior and veteran association	Palace gardens courtyard of the fortress		March 22, 1889
	former mine railway	Bundesstrasse 96 ; Buchwalde	-
	Sgraffito "Jesus on the Cross" with bullet holes from the Second World War	Steindamm Wendish Church	Günter Wendt	1934
	Copy of the Saxon postal mileage column from 1731	market	Johann Gottfried Richter	October 18, 2000
	Hidden Treasure plastic made of bronze and stainless steel	Piazetta on the Altmarkt between the Ratskeller restaurant in the New Town Hall and the Sparkasse building	Volker Bartsch	April 1999
	Bronze sculpture	Piazetta on the Altmarkt between the New Town Hall and the Sparkasse building	Volker Bartsch	1999
	Depiction of the Senftenberg coat of arms with a miner's crown	Steindamm not far from the old fire station		~ 2000
	Stone cross stele engraved with the year 1766 , this is probably the original center piece of the former Senftenberg post mile column	Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse / Großenhainer-Strasse / Hörlitzer Strasse intersection		probably 1766
	Icarus sculpture in the "See" residential area	Hanseatenstrasse - shopping complex	Jaroslav Čepa	~ 2000
	Sculpture "The Bathers"	Steigerstrasse / Glück-Auf-Strasse	Ernst Sauer	1982
	Monument to the naming ceremony " Wilhelm-Pieck-Straße "	Wilhelm-Pieck-Strasse	Ernst Sauer	~ 1970
	Two bathing boys with the conversion of the public swimming pool into an adventure pool, the sculptures were moved from the old entrance to the new entrance	Hörlitzer Strasse in front of the adventure pool	Ernst Sauer	1966
	Plastic Santa Barbara bronze art cast from the Lauchhammer art foundry	Krankenhausstrasse entrance hall of the Niederlausitz Clinic	Vinzenz Wanitschke	December 2000
	Boulder with two Senftenberg coats of arms and a seal as well as a lorry the coat of arms on the front is incorrectly depicted with a crown, on the back of the boulder the oldest seal of Senftenberg and the coat of arms from 1449 are shown made by Bergbausanierung- und Landschaftsgestaltung Brandenburg GmbH (BUL)	Entrance of Senftenberg Hörlitz from	-	~ 2000
	Memorial stone for the devastated Reppist	Remains of the place Reppist	-
	Commemorative plaque for Yves Lejarre Text: In memory of the French resistance fighter, the railway worker "Yves Lejarre" who died on March 31, 1945 in the Dachau concentration camp.	Straße der Jugend Reichsbahnkulturhaus
	Memorial stone for the dismantled cross gate	Kreuzstrasse	-	~ 2000
	Memorial stone for the dismantled castle gate	Schlossstrasse	-	~ 2000
	Sgraffito craftsmen depicted are two craftsmen: a road builder and a carpenter	Windmühlenweg building of the THW
	The mosaic picture shows a Pegasus in the middle	At the Pionierhaus Jugendhaus Pegasus
	Circle of life Stone circle that represents the stages of life	Dorothea-Erxleben-Straße originally the inner courtyard of the Niederlausitz Clinic	Gerhart Lampa	1999
	War victims died in 1945 from low-level aircraft attacks, artillery fire and typhus	Dorothea-Erxleben-Straße behind the parking lot
	“Games on the water” fountain made of bronze in 1983, should be set up on the south side of Neumarkt from 1984; by building a transformer station at the planned location, the well should be built on the northeast side; the planned heating route prevented this; The sculptures initially remained on the property of the artist's family; In 2004, when Neumarkt was redesigned, they were cast as a fountain ensemble in the Lauchhammer art foundry, deviating from the artist's original design	Neumarkt	Ernst Sauer	2004
	Mosaic with bathing scenes set up in the early 1980s before the end of the shopping spree on the prefabricated buildings on Neumarkt, after their dismantling, set up together with sculptures by Ernst Sauer in 2004 on Neumarkt	Neumarkt		~ 1985
	Stoneware fountain fountain is now used as a flower bowl	Hanseatenstrasse shopping complex		~ 1975
	Fountain in the school yard of the grammar school (former POS VII) Fountain was moved to the school yard in 2004, additions were made by H. Sauer	Fischreiherstrasse school yard of the grammar school	Jürgen von Woyski	1974
	Fountain on the corner of Usedomer Strasse and Hanseatenstrasse	Usedomer Strasse Hanseatenstrasse
	Memorial to the ophthalmologist Hermann Kuhnt	Steindamm / Schloßstraße former castle lean-to		2009
	Monument to the sculptor Ernst Sauer	Ernst-Sauer-Platz		2013
	Memorial for fallen reppisters of World War II	Forest cemetery

Lost monuments

image	Description and notes on the story	Location	Artist	Date of installation	Date of removal
	War memorial for those who fell in the Franco-German War	Bahnhofstrasse at the former bridge over the Storchelster (today crossing Bahnhofstrasse / Westpromenade)		July 5, 1874
	Roland sculpture, presumably a test fire of a part of a war memorial for those killed in the First World War in Züllichau in Poland	Palace gardens courtyard of the palace	Paul Bronisch	~ 1930	~ 1935
	Commemorative plaque for the unification of the KPD and SPD to form the SED at the "House of the Working People" (HdW) Text: The union of the two workers' parties in the Calau / Senftenberg district to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany took place in this building on March 24, 1946. Lost in the fire of the HdW in 1996	Corner of Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse / Felix-Spiro-Strasse, the former "House of the Working People"			1996
	Reinforced concrete light pole removed in preparation for the redesign of the old market	Old market	-	1932	1998
	Memorial stone for Ernst Thälmann with a plaque of his likeness, text on the stele 1886–1944, son and leader of his class , because the engineering school (today Lausitz University of Applied Sciences) had been named Ernst Thälmann since 1955	Großenhainer Straße University of Applied Sciences Lausitz		1976	~ 1992
	Commemorative plaque on the 500th anniversary of Hans von Polenz's death Text: Hans von Polenz zu Senftenberg Landvogt of Niederlausitz 1437–1937 in memory	Palace Park Outer wall of the palace, to the left of the entrance gate		1937	2004
	Brunnen in the Freisestraße depicted a boy trying to hold a goose between his legs	Freisestrasse	Paul Horn	October 11, 1924
	Pillar fountain, designed with mosaics, removed when the theater passage was redesigned	Theater passage	Ernst Sauer	~ 1975	2008
	Tree of life	Heron Street	Jürgen von Woyski	~ 1970	~ 2000

References and comments

1. ↑ Bernd Gork: Mother and child are back.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , March 27, 2008.  
2. ↑ Senftenberger Official Journal September 30, 2004 (PDF, 2.4 MB)
3. ↑ Bronze act disappeared from the base Kathleen Weser: Lausitzer Rundschau
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} 1279–1979. 700 years of Senftenberg . Information brochure of the Senftenberg District Council on the occasion of Senftenberg's 700th anniversary.
5. ↑ Series of publications for local research in the Senftenberg district, No. 6 ; Editor of the Senftenberg district; 1988.
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Historical Forays - Monuments of the City of Senftenberg , publisher City of Senftenberg.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Werner Forkert: Senftenberger retrospectives. Part II Interesting facts from Senftenberg's history . Editor of the bookstore "Glück Auf", 2007.
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Isolde Rösler: Alt-Senftenberg. A picture chronicle . Editor of the Senftenberg District Museum . Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1992, ISBN 3-89264-731-3 .
9. ↑ Information board at the old official mill.
10. ↑ Senftenberg City Guide, published by Senftenberg District Office, Tourist Office 1991.
11. ↑ Information board of the museum.
12. ↑ Kathleen Weser. Sour penguins moved to the zoo . Article in the Lausitzer Rundschau. December 10, 2015
13. ^ Official Journal of the City of Senftenberg from February 29, 2004.
14. ↑ Note: The place "Rauno" is misspelled on the memorial stone, the letter "N" was forgotten.
15. ↑ Information from information board.
16. ↑ Anja Hummel: Sculptures let Stadtwerke Senftenberg shine in new splendor. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , September 11, 2009.
17. ↑ Kathleen Weser: Bronze sculptures taken from the pedestal in Lausitzer Rundschau , October 7, 2017
18. ↑ Note: The work is referred to as Hidden Treasure on the artist's homepage , the city of Senftenberg's press release from May 1999 describes the work as Protected .
19. ↑ Information on Volker Bartsch. Archived from the original on January 5, 2010 ; Retrieved October 3, 2008 . 
20. ↑ Depiction of the coat of arms with a crown does not comply with the rules of heraldry.
21. ↑ Information board made of bronze in the Niederlausitz Clinic.
22. ↑ Series of publications for local research in the Senftenberg district, No. 7 ; Editor of the Senftenberg district; 1989.
23. ↑ Gerhart Lampa: Objects made of stone ( Memento from March 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
24. ↑ Calendar of Sparkasse Niederlausitz 2007.
25. ↑ Kathleen Weser. Article in the Lausitzer Rundschau memorial for fallen reppisters on July 8, 2016

literature

• Isolde Rösler: Alt-Senftenberg. A picture chronicle . Editor of the Senftenberg District Museum. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1992, ISBN 3-89264-731-3 .
• Werner Forkert : Senftenberger reviews. Interesting facts from Senftenberg's history . Publisher of the bookstore "Glück Auf", 2006, ISBN 978-3-944316-03-1 .
• Werner Forkert: Senftenberger reviews. Part II Interesting facts from Senftenberg's history . Publisher of the bookstore "Glück Auf", 2007, ISBN 978-3-944316-04-8 .

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