The good shepherd (Neuendettelsau)
The Good Shepherd is a sandstone statue created by the sculptor Karl Hemmeter . It stands north of the Laurentius Church in Neuendettelsau . It depicts Jesus as a good shepherd ( Joh 10,11,14 EU ) with a sheep on his back and another sheep behind him.
It was only under Rector Heinz Miederer that the statue on the Day of Repentance and Prayer (November 18, 1981) was rededicated as a memorial for the euthanasia victims by adding the bronze lettering on the base: “Christ says: 'Nobody will get it out of my hand tear '( Jn 10.28 EU ). Warning and consolation in memory of all disabled people who were torn from our homes in 1940–1941. "
Of the 1,700 disabled people who lived in the institutions of the Diakonie Neuendettelsau (Neuendettelsau, Engelthal, Polsingen, Bruckberg, Himmelkron), 1205 were disabled in the course of " Action T4 " (extermination of life unworthy of life) in 1940/41 in the institutions in Ansbach, Erlangen and Kutzenberg relocated. Some died there as a result of medical experiments (starvation diet, lethal injections), the rest were killed in Nazi killing centers.
literature
- Hans Rößler (Ed.): Under thatched and tile roofs. From the Neuendettelsau story . Freimund, Neuendettelsau 1982, ISBN 3-7726-0110-3 , p. 198-207 .
- Hans Roessler: National Socialism in the Franconian Province. Neuendettelsau under the swastika . Neuendettelsau 2017, ISBN 978-3-9809431-9-2 , p. 174-180 .
- Marco Popp: St. Laurentius Neuendettelsau: the church of the Evangelical Lutheran Diakoniewerk . Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2012, ISBN 978-3-89870-702-2 , p. 49 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ H. Rößler: Neuendettelsau under the Hakenkreuz , p. 178f.
Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 19.5 ″ N , 10 ° 47 ′ 2 ″ E