Liberation Monument (Innsbruck)

Front (2007)

Back (2007), in front of it the fountain and the pogrom memorial

The Liberation Monument is on Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz (formerly Landhausplatz) in front of the New Landhaus in Innsbruck .

Emergence

The Liberation Monument was erected from 1946 to 1948 by Tyrolean artists and craftsmen on the initiative and at the expense of the French occupying power based on designs by the architect of the French military government for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Major Jean Pascaud . The memorial is dedicated to those people who sacrificed their lives for the liberation of Austria from seven years of bondage under National Socialism from 1938 to 1945. Plans and photos of the erection of this monument and the extremely laborious installation of the eagle on the monument for the time are kept in the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum .

description

In contrast to the Soviet memorial erected in Vienna in the same year, the Innsbruck monument shows only Austrian symbols. It bears the inscription "PRO LIBERTATE AUSTRIAE MORTUIS" The people who died for Austria's freedom and the coats of arms of the nine Austrian federal states in the form of a cross . These grilles were made by master locksmith and later ÖVP city councilor Anton Fritz , who also drove the Tyrolean eagle with inland shield according to a design by the sculptor Emmerich Kerle in copper.

Appreciation by name

As part of the redesign of Landhausplatz in 2011, the names of 107 people who perished in the resistance against the Nazi regime were attached to the liberation monument. In 2015 another 16 names were added. Since March 2012 there is a website for Eduard Wallnöfer Platz, on which both monuments are described in detail.

On the western side of the monument there are the following names:

Honors by name

The one who died for the freedom of Austria

Josef Axinger Michael Bazil Anton Bodenwinkler Matthäus Burgstaller Walter Caldonazzi Alfons Degaspari Johann Desch Rudolf Eder Alois Graus Georg Gruber Anna Gründler Marian Kuderna Stefan Kuderna Konrad Meier Robert Moser Andreas Obernauer Josef Pair

Johann Pechriggl Maria Peskoller Viktor da Pont Anton Rausch Anton Rettenbacher Johann Rieder Narciso Riet Hedwig Romen Josef Salcher Josef Schmiderer Johann Schmidt Albert Alois Schnitzer Johann Schroffner Karl Seemann Rosa Stallbaumer Johann Steinmayer Anton Stock

Franz Stolzlechner Adele Stürzl Ferdinand Thaler Otto Thies Konrad Tiefenthaler Martin Tissner Leopold Tomschik Ludwig Totzenberger Albert Troppmair Stefan Valentinotti Hans Vogl Karl Weiroster Josef Werndl Lorenz Wernisch Josef Wieser Johann Winkler

On the eastern side of the monument there are the following names:

The one who died for the freedom of Austria

Paul Anetter Max Bear Alois Brunner Josefine Brunner Viktor Czerny Helene Delacher Heinrich Depaoli Ferdinand Eberhart Johann Erler Peter Falkner Georg Fankhauser Ernst Federspiel Nikolaus Federspiel Alois Flatscher Franz Frank Sepp Gangl Jakob Gapp Johann Gasser Franz Gruber

Alfred cornerstone Andreas Hofer Alois Holzer Ferdinand Humer Alois Hupfau Shmuel David Janaszewicz Jakob Justmann Karl Killinger Anton Kofler Walter Krajnc Carl Lampert Franz Mair Adolf Martinek Hubert Mayr Karl Mayr Johann Mentil Franz Josef Messner Otto Neururer

Anton Obholzer Ernst Ortner Emil Palla Hugo Paterno Oskar Pfeifer Anton Pils Hugo Pircher Josef Pontiller Erich Ranacher Franz Reinisch Nikolaus Schwarz Antonia Setz Franz Setz Anton Steiner Florian Steiner Lorenz Steiner Alfons Sturm Klara Sturm

See also

• Pogrom memorial

Web links

Commons : Liberation Monument  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Horst Schreiber : The Innsbruck Liberation Monument
• Memorial sites of National Socialism in Seefeld and Innsbruck
• Website for Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz (with a detailed description of the monument)

Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 49.3 "  N , 11 ° 23 ′ 46.1"  E