118 monument

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118 monument

The 118 monument in the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Worms is dedicated to the memory of the infantry regiment "Prince Carl" (4th Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 118 and its field formations in the First World War .

Emergence

The 118 monument was erected in 1932 on today's Adenauerring , not far from the Romanesque church of St. Martin in the north of Worms old town. The monument was unveiled on August 21, 1932 by Major General Richard Münter , who had been the regiment's commander at the beginning of the war. It was financed with funds from the association of former 118s . The monument was given to the city on the occasion of the consecration. The former Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig took part in the celebrations.

Conception

The number of individual soldiers' statues is intended to remind of the five years of the war. Starting from the left the soldiers proudly looking ahead, to the right the thoughtful reservists , then the war volunteers and the Landwehr - and to the right the Landsturmmann . In this respect, the five soldiers are also symbolic of the five field formations of the regiment during the war. The sculptor Paul Birr took up the concept of the war memorial of the city of Verdun , which commemorates the fallen of the city in a similar design with five statues representing the various branches of arms. For Issac Holzer, who gave a speech at the opening as the rabbi of the traditional local Jewish community , the monument was a testimony to the overcoming of social and religious dividing lines in Germany.

Monument protection

The monument is a listed building.

literature

Web links

Commons : 118 Monument  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerold Bönnen : History of the City of Worms . 2nd Edition. Theiss , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 567 .
  2. ^ Margit Rinker-Olbrisch. Data on the history of the city of Worms. Worms City Archives, 2001. (PDF; 537 kB)
  3. ↑ The 118s felt the horror right from the start - Wormser Zeitung. (No longer available online.) In: wormser-zeitung.de. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; accessed on March 20, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Irene Spille / Otto Böcher: History of the City of Worms . Ed .: Gerold Bönnen . 2nd Edition. Theiss , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 787 .
  5. ^ Entry on Verdun in the virtual exhibition catalog Bonn in the First World War 1914 to 1918
  6. ↑ Entry on the website of the city of Verdun on the war memorial there ( Memento from June 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Nils Roemer: German City, Jewish Memory: The Story of Worms, University Press of New England, Lebanon (New Hampshire) 2010, p. 128
  8. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Worms. Mainz 2020, p. 4 (PDF; 5.0 MB; Adenauerring).

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 1.3 "  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 45.5"  E