Memorial to the fallen soldiers of the First World War Hofstetten (Upper Bavaria)

War memorial in Hofstetten

The memorial for those who fell in World War I in Hofstetten , a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech , hangs in the Catholic parish church of St. Michael. The war memorial belongs as part of the church facilities to the protected monuments in Bavaria.

The memorial to the fallen of the First World War hanging in the anteroom of the church is a baroque wall altar with twisted pairs of columns. The signed oil painting of a dead soldier as a martyr in the arms of Christ illustrates the symbolism of the biblical quote “ Be faithful to death, so I will give you the crown of life! “( Rev 1,18  LUT ). Anton Niedermaier from Hohenbrunn near Munich painted it in 1919.

The names of the 27 fallen are listed on a black board below.

literature

• Karl Gattinger, Grietje Suhr: Landsberg am Lech, city and district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.14 ). Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2449-2 , p. 276 .

Web links

Commons : St. Michael (Hofstetten bei Landsberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments for Hofstetten (Upper Bavaria) (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-1-81-124-1

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 34.6 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 22.4 ″  E