Blucher Monument Weisel
The Blücher monument in Weisel , Rhineland-Palatinate , commemorates the crossing of the Rhine by the Silesian Army under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher as part of the Wars of Liberation .
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The center of the army with Blücher and the Yorck and Langeron corps was gathered in the Kaub area on the Taunus . On New Year's Eve 1813/14 the vanguard and the first troops crossed the Rhine in barges. Parts of the troops were lying directly with Weisel, whose inhabitants were affected on the one hand by looting and on the other hand by imported typhus , as a result of which at least 70 residents died after the troop deployment.
100 years later, in 1913, a monument committee was founded in Weisel. It was decided to erect a memorial , which on the one hand was to commemorate the merits of Blücher in the victory over Napoleon , but also to commemorate the victims in the population. After collecting the appropriate money in the community, the stonemason Johannes Sipp began with the construction.
The monument was inaugurated on September 14, 1914, six weeks after the German Empire entered the First World War .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '59.4 " N , 7 ° 48' 5.7" E