The mourners
The bronze female figures , the mourners are by sculptor Karl Kroher a memorial created memorial in Munich district Neuhausen . The figures were cast by the Ferdinand von Miller ore foundry in Munich. They have a height of about 2.80 meters.
history
The foundation stone for the original memorial was laid on May 29, 1921 in the domed hall of the Royal Bavarian Ministry of Transport on Arnulfstrasse ( Alte Hopfenpost ) in Munich. The memorial was unveiled in 1927. The memorial originally consisted of a marble commemorative plaque embedded in the floor, surrounded by four mourning figures in niches: the girl, the bride, the mother and the widow. They symbolize the mourners of the Bavarian postmen and railroad workers who died in the First World War . Each figure held a branch of laurel in hand. When the ministry building was redesigned in 1973, the figures of girl , mother and widow were placed in a green area of the Federal Railway Directorate in Neuhausen. The figures stand here in a circle, back to back.
At the beginning of 2019 it became known that the bride figure was privately owned in Munich.
literature
- Martha Schad: Women in bronze and stone - Munich . Stiebner, ISBN 3-8307-1043-7 .
Web links
Heike Mayer: The bride has disappeared. Three bronze female figures pose a puzzle. Retrieved February 4, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ursula Löschau: Riddle revealed: How the city could buy the missing bride out. In: www.hallo-muenchen.de. January 17, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '36.9 " N , 11 ° 32' 2.6" E