Bismarck monument Rheydt
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The Bismarck monument stands in the district of Rheydt in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ), in the area Vierhaus street / road Odenkirchener / Moses Star Road.
The building was built at the end of the 19th century and registered under No. V 026 on November 11, 2005 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .
location
The Bismarck monument stands under large trees in a green area north of Vierhaus Strasse, south of Moses-Stern-Strasse and west of Odenkirchener Strasse.
architecture
The obelisk over a multi-tiered base and substructure is carved out of dark igneous rock and has a polished surface. The substructure originally carried the now lost portrait of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in a medallion . The monolithic obelisk adjoins a surrounding cornice . A bronze plate with the name of the Reich Chancellor and the inscription "Ehrenbürger von Rheydt", which was probably added later, has been preserved. The property is worth protecting as a monument for local historical reasons.
Web links
- List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 (234.24 kB).
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 47.1 ″ N , 6 ° 26 ′ 37.5 ″ E