Emigrant Monument (Bremerhaven)
The emigrant memorial is a group of statues designed in 1986 by the Budapest- born American sculptor Frank Varga (* 1943; † 2018) on Willy-Brandt-Platz on the Seebäderkaje in the new port of Bremerhaven . The German Emigration Center is also nearby .
description
The group is positioned on a high, cuboid pedestal made of pink granite with the inscription DIE EMANDERER. It is cast in bronze and represents a family of four. The father, who holds up his left hand, seems to be looking forward to the New World. With his right hand he grips his son's hand, who places his other hand on his mother's back. The mother, for her part, bends over and grabs the shoulders of the little girl who is pressing against her mother, but she has turned her gaze back.
On the back of the base there are four bronze plaques with lists of names.
history
The bronzes were cast in the New York Modern Art Foundry . The memorial was financed by a fundraising campaign by the German-American Memorial Association , which raised US $ 200,000. The base and the installation were financed by various Bremerhaven companies.
In 1986 the monument was unveiled near the Pingelturm at the Kaiserschleuse . When a customs fence was erected right next to the memorial in 2008, the memorial was moved to Bremerhaven's Willy-Brandt-Platz. It now stands on one of the city's main dikes, on the site of one of the former docks from which emigrants used to leave.
Web links
- Emigrant monument
- Emigrant Monument - Bremerhaven Maritime Monuments and Memorials on Waymarking.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emigrant Monument - Bremerhaven.de. September 13, 2013, accessed May 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Christian Horsten: Foundry of the emigration monument , Weser Kurier, March 3, 2017, accessed on May 3, 2020
- ^ Emigrant Monument - Bremerhaven Maritime Monuments and Memorials on Waymarking.com, accessed on May 3, 2020
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '37.52 " N , 8 ° 34' 11.92" O