Agnes Heineken Monument

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Agnes Heineken memorial at the vocational training center in Bremen

The Agnes Heineken memorial is a natural stone memorial in Bremen - Mitte , near the Bremen vocational training center , which was erected in 1957 in honor of the Bremen pedagogue Agnes Heineken (1872–1954). It is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen .

Agnes Heineken

Agnes Heineken was a pedagogue, women's rights activist and Bremen politician ( DDP ). Before the First World War she supported the endeavors for higher education for girls in public schools. In 1910 she founded the Frauenstadtbund Bremen and advocated women's suffrage. In 1918 she became the director of the schools of the women's acquisition and training association . She was a member of the Bremen citizenship . During the Nazi era , she was dismissed as headmistress in 1933. Agnes Heineken was an important woman in the Bremen women's movement .

The monument

Back with the bas-relief

The memorial was created by the Bremen sculptor Kurt Lettow (1908–1992) in the form of a stone stele . The front shows the portrait head carved out in high relief and the name of Agnes Heineken. On the back, Lettow symbolically paid tribute to the well-deserved educator and women's rights activist with a bas-relief depicting a woman and a girl, facing each other. The memorial stele was set up in 1957 at the vocational training center Bremen (BBZ) on the south side between block A and B.

The monument is under the protection of historical monuments in Bremen .

Two other works by Lettow in the state of Bremen were in the St. Nikolaus Church in Bremerhaven , built in 1959 , for which he created the relief on the rear wall of the altar and the altar cross. The church building was profaned and demolished in 2010 .

literature

  • Julia van Wilpe (arr.); Kulturkirche St. Stephani Bremen (ed.): The Bremen sculptor Kurt Lettow. Beyond the borders of Bremen. 1908-1992. Rasch, Bramsche 2012, ISBN 978-3-89946-211-1 (volume accompanying the exhibition "Post-war Church Art Aesthetics: Lettow, in the St. Stephani Cultural Church in Bremen, June 7th to August 26th, 2012").
  • Wiltrud Ulrike Drechsel (ed.): History in public space. Monuments in Bremen between 1435 and 2001 . Donat, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-938275-84-9 , p. 22 f.

Web links

Commons : Agnes Heineken Monument  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

Coordinates: 53 ° 5 '3.8 "  N , 8 ° 47' 45.9"  E