Diederichsstein

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Monument Diederichsstein on Diederichsberg in "Tsingtau".
Illustration from 1918 with Japanese inscription vertically above the heraldic eagle
Picture of the 2015 situation at the site of the former monument.

The Diederichsstein ( English Diederichs’s stone ) was a monument in Tsingtau that was dedicated to Otto von Diederichs and the occupation of Kiautschou on November 14, 1897. On the anniversary of the occupation, it was inaugurated on November 21, 1898 by Prince Heinrich of Prussia . An inscription was placed on the memorial with the following text: "He who campaigned for Kaiser and Reich all around the country, after him this rock was named Diederichsstein." The memorial was located halfway up Signalberg (Xinhaoshan, officially Diederichsberg during German rule called) on which the local radio station was set up. After the Japanese occupation of Tsingtau, the memorial plaque was first provided with a Japanese inscription ("November in the third year of the Taishō period") vertically above the heraldic eagle and brought to a military museum in Tokyo on December 10, 1922 before Tsingtau was returned to China. On March 16, 2008, fragments of the monument were rediscovered by local homeland researchers. Further research into the history was then carried out.

  • Inauguration of the Diederichsstein, November 21, 1898

  • Diederichsstein after the inauguration

  • Signalberg with monument and tower - view NWW mountain side, 1902

  • Signal station on the Diederichsberg above the monument, 1901

  • Diederichsberg with the governor's house, view of the southern mountain side, 1913

  • Signalberg on a historical map section: Tsingtau, 1912, scale 1: 20000

literature

  • Torsten Warner: German architecture in China. Ernst & Sohn, 1994, ISBN 3-433-02429-4 .
  • Hans Weicker: Kiautschou. The German protected area in East Asia . Pen drawings, initials and vignettes by Marie Gey-Heinze. Alfred Schall, Berlin 1908.
  • Michael Salewski: The Prussian and Imperial Navy in the East Asian Waters: The Military Interest in East Asia .

Web links

Commons : Diederichsstein  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Warner: German architecture in China. 1994, p. 98.
  2. ↑ The emergence of the Kiautschou model colony . Federal Archives
  3. ↑ A journey through the German colonies . Volume 6. Verlagsgesellschaft Kolonialpolitischer Zeitschriften, 1912, p. 12, OCLC 256669663 .
  4. ↑ Signalberg. In: German Colonial Lexicon . (1920), Volume III, p. 357.ub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de
  5. ↑ Chinese press report (March 23, 2008) on the rediscovery of fragments of the Diedrichsstein ( memento from March 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at wanbao.qingdaonews.com
  6. ↑ Chinese press report (April 27, 2008) on the history of the Diedrichsstein ( memento from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 488 kB) at wanbao.qingdaonews.com

Coordinates: 36 ° 4 ′ 1 ″  N , 120 ° 19 ′ 32 ″  E