Monuments and memorials in Aue

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No longer existing monument to King Albert on what was then Ernst-Geßner-Platz

In the district of Aue in the large district town of Aue-Bad Schlema in the Ore Mountains, there are numerous monuments and memorial plaques that honor people in particular. In this article, the existing monuments and memorials are presented in chronological order of their erection or inauguration. A separate section is devoted to the no longer existing monuments. Together with the article Fountains and Sculptures in Aue , most of these objects are shown in public space.

Existing monuments

Monument to the honorary citizen Siegfried Sieber

Individuals

  • The Eichert allotment garden association set up a memorial there in 1936 to the founder of the natural healing association (1886), Karl August Müller : a bronze plaque with a relief is embedded in a boulder.
  • The pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel is honored on the Brünlasberg with a memorial in front of today's special needs school, which was erected in the 1950s in front of a children's combination , a complex building made up of a crèche and a kindergarten. As a symbolic representation of the children's toy recommended by Froebel, a cube, a cylinder and a granite ball were placed on top of each other. The inscription on the monument reads: “Come, let us live our children”.
  • With the inauguration of a monument, the city administration honored the local history researcher Siegfried Sieber , who for the first time scientifically researched the city's history and published the results in the 1920s. Sieber was added to the list of Auer honorary citizens in 1973. If you look closely at the memorial stone for Sieber, you will notice that it is the former Kaiser Wilhelm monument, from which the old curved memorial plate was removed.
  • A memorial for Yuri Gagarin , the first person in space , has stood on the Zeller Berg since October 5th, 1974 . A newly laid street with its new buildings leading past the monument was named Juri-Gagarin-Ring .
Thälmann bust at the Kulturhaus
  • An "Ernst Thälmann bust" was unveiled in 1958 on the edge of the city garden. The production of the bust goes back to a donation from Gerhard Hirsch , the founder and long-time director of the Auer Blema Choir . In 1972 the bust got a new place in front of a symbolic flag made of concrete. A planting in the area upgraded the facility to a Thälmann memorial .

Groups of people and events

  • In the middle of the municipal cemetery, which is looked after by the Protestant St. Nikolaigemeinde, there is a memorial on Mittelweg for the Au citizens of the St. Nikolaigemeinde who died in World War I. The large stone cross bears the inscription “For you” on both sides of the transom, on the pedestal (in poor condition) you can read: “In memory of our dear fallen in World War 1914–1918. Parish St. Nicolai, Aue ”. The consecration of this honor cross took place on October 10, 1926 in the presence of representatives of the city administration and numerous civic associations.
  • Aues I. Citizens School , completed in 1902 on Schwarzenberger Straße , was given the honorary name Pestalozzi School on February 12, 1927 on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi . A memorial stone and a plaque attached to the gable wall of the school building remind of this.
  • In 1927 the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Aue -zelle placed a memorial with fold-out name plaques for its fallen parishioners directly in the Friedenskirche .
  • Shortly after the death of the honorary citizen and sculptor Emil Teubner , the city fathers erected a memorial stone for him with the inscription: “Emil Teubner. In memory of the carver and sculptor. 1877-1958 ".
  • In 1966 a memorial stone for Albert Schweitzer was unveiled in front of the elementary school built in 1877, later a special school. This school had received the approval of the important jungle doctor to be allowed to bear his name. Schweitzer had died in Lambarene a year earlier .
Memorial stone for all victims of violence
  • On the Zwitterweg at the foot of the Heidelsberg , the mayor of Au unveiled a memorial stone with the inscription "In honor of all victims of war, terror and all forms of tyranny". This monument is the former Bismarck stone, from which the portrait and the text panel were unscrewed. The portrait has been replaced by the Auer city arms and the text has been exchanged.
  • In August 2011 the groundbreaking ceremony for a uniform monument took place . The planning and implementation was initiated by the former district administrator Heinz-Günter Kraus. The memorial was made to a design by the city architect Wolfgang Unger. It consists of two angularly curved stainless steel profiles that are a total of 4.70 m high, each symbolizing a seated person and set in reinforced concrete. When placed in opposite directions, the ensemble forms a (fused) figure. The low surrounding wall contains the inscription "20 years of peaceful revolution and German unity" on a plaque. In the words of the initiator and the architect, it should “... not be a pure memorial for the peaceful revolution in the GDR, but also represent the later democratization process and the sometimes very changeable merging with the old federal states.” The construction costs were 35,000 euros figured. It was inaugurated on October 3, 2011 in the presence of the Saxon Environment Minister Frank Kupfer and is located on the flower rondel near the Schiller Bridge , where the gossip fountain already stands. At the ceremonial unveiling, it was stated that the monument is also a symbol for the twin cities of Aue and Solingen .

Existing memorial plaques for people, places and events

  • To commemorate the appearance of workers' leaders in the assembly hall of the Hotel Blauer Engel in 1911 a cast iron plaque was placed in the anteroom with the text: “ Wilhelm Liebknecht spoke on January 3, 1877 and Otto Buchwitz on December 16, 1911 in the hall of the Blue Angel . "
  • In the local area of ​​Aue -zelle a bronze plaque on the former Hotel Zur Eiche , building Lößnitzer Straße 1, reminds of the foundation of the Erzgebirgsverein on May 5, 1878 with the following text: “Glückauf! 1878.1928. Friends of home founded the ERZGEBIRGS = VEREIN in this house on May 5th, 1878. "
  • A board inaugurated in 1923 on the building on Kantstrasse (today the vocational school center for economics and social affairs Schwarzenberg - Aue branch ) commemorates the Aue Public Business School founded in 1898 with the following text: “1898–1923. To commemorate the founding of the public commercial school in Aue by the commercial association on April 1, 1898 and the handover of the school to the administration of the city of Aue on January 1, 1921. Aue, on the anniversary day April 1, 1923, the commercial. Association of the Auer Tales, Aue in the Ore Mountains. “This school was spun off from the existing vocational training school in 1897 on the initiative of a commercial association and initially worked in rented rooms at the municipal school. Foreign languages, shorthand and bookkeeping were taught in the new teaching facility and its graduates contributed to the continued economic prosperity of the rapidly growing industrial companies in Aue. In 1907 the business school got its own building with the support of the Curt Bauer weaving mill and the Saxon Ministry of the Interior.
    A second plaque in the entrance area honors the dead from the First World War from this school: “The heroes from the teaching staff and the former students of the Aue commercial school. Those who went out to protect their fatherland's fame and greatness in the World War 1914–18, who fought and suffered for it and who remained in the field of honor, dedicate a faithful remembrance in indelible gratitude. Aue, on the anniversary day April 1st, 1923. The merchants of the Auertal and the grateful students. "
  • The Auer Beautification Association , founded in 1895 in connection with the construction of the city park, had won over the factory owner Bernhard Lorenz to donate a pavilion for this city park. In October 1912, this round pillar temple with a copper roof was officially handed over to the public, construction of which had already started in 1898. In the interior of the dome, a plaque commemorates the donor with the following text: “This temple was built in honor of our long-term chairman, Mr. Bernhard Lorenz, by the Beautification Association i. J. 1912 ". After the association was dissolved in the 1940s and during the GDR era, the pavilion increasingly fell into disrepair . A comprehensive reconstruction was only possible in 1995, with the small temple receiving a new domed roof and new water features.
  • When opening a quarry on Bockauer Talstrasse, the workers uncovered a boulder that, like a weld seam, revealed the connection between the slate formed in the primeval sea and the granite formed by volcanism . The Freiberg geologist Hermann Credner , who was called in, suggested making this geological feature visible by means of an explanation board. In 1910, a plate was attached to the boulder with the inscription "Here are Vulkan and Neptune in granite and phyllite as a hammer smith ". This block of stone, which is special for geologists and interested laypeople, was also called Der Hammerschmied because of the text on the table . Vandals removed the record in the 1990s. A cameraman found the board while filming in this area, which was cleaned and put back in 2003.
  • The railing of the bridge over the Zwickauer Mulde in the course of Wettinerstraße contains a memorial plaque for Ernst Thälmann . This bridge, inaugurated in 1888, was named Ernst-Thälmann-Brücke when it was rebuilt in 1958 .
The manufacturer Erdmann Kircheis on a memorial plaque
  • The manufacturer Erdmann Kircheis is honored with a plaque at the current building complex for the School of Technology, the former factory building of the Hiltmann and Lorenz (Hilo) company .
  • At the Nickelhütte Aue , the inscription "Hüttenwerk since 1635" under a special coat of arms refers to the history of the factories that emerged from the Niederpfannenstiel blue color works. Other plaques at the entrance building and on the company premises honor the chemist Clemens Winkler , who worked here from 1859 to 1873 and discovered the element germanium , as well as Veit Hans Schnorr , the founder of the blue paint factory.
  • The bridge, which had led over the Schwarzwasser to the site of the Nickelhütte since 1810 , was completely destroyed by the so-called flood of the century on August 13, 2002. The city of Aue commissioned a new bridge, which was inaugurated on March 16, 2004. There was space for the foundation stones of the old bridge at the two bridge entrances and the event is remembered by means of identical text panels: “As a reminder. Foundation stone from the pillar of the old bridge with the year 1810, the year this structure was built. After 192 years of use from the floods of the 12th and 13th centuries. Destroyed August 2002. The new bridge was built at the same location and handed over by the client, the city of Aue, on March 16, 2004. "
  • A memorial plaque on the former state police building in Schlemaer Strasse is dedicated to those tortured at this point during the Nazi era: “In 1933, upright anti-fascists were imprisoned and tortured in this house. Your struggle is a warning and a legacy to us. "
  • On several buildings in the city center ( Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse 39 , Paul-Strösser-Strasse 1 and Clara-Zetkin-Strasse 27 ), bronze plaques have been used since the 1960s to commemorate the people who lived there and who perished as a result of deportation or abuse: the Communist Otto Hempel , Paul Strösser (died in 1946 through abuse) and the regime opponent Marie Müller , after whom a street in the Auerhammer district was named.
  • Today's Schiller Bridge , built as a Post Bridge over the Zwickauer Mulde in 1899 and later renewed several times, was named after the German poet Friedrich Schiller in the Schiller year 1984 , which is noted on a copper plaque on a bridge pillar.
  • The former hat house of a tin mine on Bockauer Straße was reopened in 1976 as a traditional ore mining museum. The careful handling of the historical substance during the renovation by the building officers Wolfgang Unger and Johannes Heinichen led to the award of an architecture prize and the installation of the notice board “Awarded the Karl Marx Stadt architecture prize ”. With effect from January 1, 1991, this traditional site became the Aue City Museum .
  • In 1998, on the occasion of the 825th anniversary of the city of Aue, the Förderverein Klösterlein cell eV donated a plaque to the cemetery at Klösterlein cell, which honors Heinz Beck , who is hardly known beyond his hometown . Beck (1919–1992) is one of the renowned hobby homeland researchers, on whose initiative the copy of the plaster scratch painting on the former abbey church cell can be traced back. He also dealt extensively with the history of the blue paint factory and the history of the Friedenskirche (Aue cell) .
  • The Becherweg is led over the Schwarzwasser by means of a bridge near the Nickelhütte Aue. This concrete bridge, built in 1934, was rebuilt when the road was expanded in 1998/1999. When it was reopened, it was given the name Siegfried-Jakob-Brücke and a memorial plaque was attached. With this, the city and the management of the Nickelworks honored the meritorious partner of the plant Siegfried Jakob (December 11, 1931– August 8, 1999), who died in August 1999 .
  • The local area of Aue- Alberoda commemorates its citizens who died in the First and Second World War with a plaque of honor on Alberodaer Straße , junction with Eisenbrückenweg. The bronze plaque was financed with donations from the Free Voters Aue party , the Alberoda volunteer fire brigade , the Alberoda sports club and the Alberoda poultry and homeland club and was inaugurated on November 14, 2004, the day of national mourning. Its inscription reads: “In memory of the comrades from Alberoda who died in the First and Second World Wars. 'We learned how to fly like birds, how to swim like fish, but we have forgotten the simple art of living like brothers. - Martin Luther King '"
  • An iron plaque even reminds of the dismantling of the tracks from Aue to Blauenthal: “Po 54. Ch – A 11.15.1875–1976. Ch-Bl 1976-1995. last train 9/22/1995. Dismantling of the rails on September 24, 2007 "

Memorials

Cenotaph for the Soviet forced laborers and members of the army
  • In the cemetery of the St. Nikolaigemeinde on Schwarzenberger Strasse there is an obelisk for ten Soviet citizens, including a child, who perished as a result of forced labor in Aue. (Translation of the Russian inscription: “In eternal memory of the Soviet people who perished in fascist slavery.”) In the small grove of honor there are graves and a memorial plaque for several members of the Red Army who died in Aue from 1945 to 1947 are.
  • In 1955, the city of Aue inaugurated a concrete obelisk with a bronze plaque as a memorial for fallen Soviet soldiers in a small green area between Gellertstrasse and the Floßgraben .
  • Also in the Nikolai cemetery there is a symbolic burial field embedded in a meadow, which bears the names of the dead (without giving any dates of life) of the Second World War on a total of eight concrete slabs .
  • The Diakonissenhaus Zion received an area on the grounds of the municipal cemetery for the burial of their deceased sisters. Here a memorial stone indicates the work of the sisters of the house. More than 100 former sisters have been buried since the 1970s.

Lost monuments

Honoring those who fell in the wars of 1866 and 1870/71
  • At the end of the 19th century it had become customary to erect monuments to soldiers who died in wars, commonly known as war memorials . There were several such memorials in Aue, at least three of which no longer exist today. If the monuments were not in an exposed position, did not embody a warlike representation and, above all, did not show a revanchist character , the city fathers initially left them as a general commemoration of the dead after 1945. They were then removed during later redesign work or new buildings.
    • In 1893 the city administration had a memorial for the dead in the wars of 1866 and 1870/71 erected in front of the elementary school / secondary school in Schwarzenberger Strasse below the St. Nicolai Church. The school was occupied by the Soviet Army in 1945, and according to information from contemporary witnesses, the monument was first enclosed and later removed. The surrounding roundabout was planted.
      The memorial for the fallen of the First World War in the Luther complex from 1931
    • An association formed in 1924 initiated a war memorial for all those who died in the First World War. This memorial was inaugurated on October 31, 1931 on Lutherplatz below the rectory of the St. Nicolai congregation . A soldier, leaning on a rifle, rose from a square pedestal with the years of the war engraved on it. Behind the stone warrior there was a gate segment made up of four angular double columns with the inscription "Our Heroes". The warrior on the pedestal and the inscription were removed a short time after 1945. The row of columns stood well into the 1960s.
    • At the corner of Gabelsbergerstraße (today's) Clara-Zetkin-Straße, the Jahn gymnastics club had a memorial erected around 1920 in honor of the gymnasts from Aue -zelle who perished in the First World War. The monument in the small park near the secondary school consisted of hewn granite stones on a square floor plan and was about two meters high. The inscriptions have become illegible, whether knowingly removed or caused by the weather, is not verifiable. It was like that until the late 1970s. When the green spaces were redesigned, it was finally removed and a children's playground was built on the spot.
    • There were other war memorials in the form of memorial stones or memorial plaques at the old Auerhammer school (which is said to still exist today in remnants), in the Aue technical school for sheet metal processing, in the upper secondary school (today's Clemens-Winkler-Gymnasium) and for the Auer gymnastics club at the lower level Festival place on Heidelsberg .
      “In memory of his gymnastics friends who died in the World War - Turnv. Jahn "
  • For Otto von Bismarck , a granite stele was erected at the foot of the Heidelsberg on September 2, 1895 , which contained a portrait of the honored and a memorial text. The occasion was the award of honorary citizenship to the German Chancellor. Since the end of the war, probably without a relief medallion, the memorial stone "All Victims of Violence" was rededicated in 1996 .
  • In honor of the then German Emperor Wilhelm I , the city of Aue erected another memorial stone in the city park on the 100th birthday of the ruler in 1897. (In the 1970s it was rededicated for the honorary citizen Siegfried Sieber, see above.)
  • In 1898, the Auer Beautification Association initiated the construction of a tuff stone grotto in the city park, which was decorated with a medallion of King Albert and on which a plaque commemorated the 25-year reign of this Saxon king. The grotto was later demolished because it was in disrepair.
  • In June 1907 an equestrian monument to King Albert was inaugurated on Ernst-Geßner-Platz (today Postplatz ) in the presence of the king. The monument donated by the laundry manufacturer Kommerzienrat Friedrich Wilhelm Gantenberg was created by the Leipzig artist Carl Seffner . After the end of the Second World War, the new rulers removed the royal monument, probably in connection with the renaming of the square to Generalissimo Stalin Square . Today, at the site of the monument, there is a stone fountain in the middle of a small green area in the center of the Postplatz.
  • After the former Waltherwiese had been redesigned as a pond and park in 1905 , the administration erected a memorial to the recently deceased Queen Carola of Saxony in 1908 and named the spacious park Queen Carola plants . The monument, which was adorned with a bronze medallion of the queen, has been lost.
  • On April 30, 1916, at the corner of Poststrasse and Schneeberger Strasse, a cast-iron bust of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was erected on a two-meter-high pedestal as a symbol of war for the city of Aue . With this action in the middle of the First World War a fundraising was connected, which brought in 8,600 marks up to the erection of the monument.
  • The blacksmith , a cast stone representation by a tinsmith from 1936, made by Otto Poertzel from Coburg on behalf of the Auer Beautification Association , has stood in the redesigned Auer Stadtgarten since 1937. After five years of back and forth, this memorial was disposed of in 1958 at a municipal storage site for building materials on the instructions of the then city administration. The monumental representation was probably no longer up to date and at the same time the city garden was to be redesigned. In 2005 a stonemason rediscovered some parts and applied for them to be purchased. Since then, the restoration and re-erection has been discussed, a result is not yet available ( as of May 2009 ).

literature

  • Stadtverwaltung Aue (Ed.): Aue, Mosaiksteine ​​der Geschichte , Verlag Mike Rockstroh, Aue 1997; Pp. 30, 126-135, 147, 201
  • Aue in the mirror of historical images of the 20s and 30s of the 20th century ; Geiger Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1993, ISBN 3-89264-829-8

Web links

Commons : Fountains, monuments and sculptures in Aue  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mosaic stones, ... , p. 237
  2. ↑ Mosaic stones, ... , p. 146
  3. ^ Homepage of the A.-S. school with details on naming; Retrieved on August 31, 2012 ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.albert-schweitzer-schule-aue.npx.de
  4. ↑ Mosaic stones, ... , p. 244
  5. ↑ a b c d e f written information from Jana Hecker, press officer for the city administration of Aue from May 2009
  6. ^ First groundbreaking ceremony for the unitary monument in Aue ( Memento from August 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ New uniform monument in Aue.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Sächsisches Tageblatt , October 1, 2011; accessed on January 17, 2016.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.xn--schsisches-tageblatt-bzb.de  
  8. ↑ Mosaic stones, ... , p. 240
  9. ↑ a b Aue im Spiegel ..., 20s and 30s ... , p. 65
  10. ↑ Aue in the mirror of historical images; Industrial and urban development in the 19th century , p. 54, Geiger Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1991, ISBN 3-89264-540-X .
  11. ↑ Illustrated guide through Aue i. Erzgebirge and Surroundings , p. 15; Woerls travel book publisher, Leipzig 1906
  12. ^ Mosaic stones, ... , p. 238
  13. ^ Ralf Petermann, Lothar Walther: Series of archive images: 'Aue – Alltagsbilder' ; 76. Sutton Verlag Erfurt, 2001, ISBN 3-89702-353-9
  14. ↑ Andreas Tröger: "Auer Schmied" - a hot iron. Schwarzenberg shows an interest in the remnants of the Stadtgarten monument - the museum director has concerns ; Article in the Auer newspaper from 2005