Cenotaph on the Fuchsberg (Düren)
The memorial on the Fuchsberg in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia , was a memorial for those who fell in the First World War .
In the 1930s the "Association for the Establishment of the Düren Memorial" was founded. His job was to take care of the financing, planning and construction of the memorial. The chairman was Friedrich Schüll. City architect Max Ernst Schneiders, who also planned parts of the green belt , created the planning draft . The names of the 700 or so people who died in the war should be carved on stone tablets.
The list of names of the fallen was published in the West German Observer of May 18, 1938. Missing or wrong names should be reported to the Düren War Welfare Office.
The foundation stone for the memorial was laid on May 22, 1938. In World War II, the construction work was set. The monument was popularly known as the “elephant toilet” because of its round shape and its imposing size. In the spring of 1975 the memorial was demolished because of a new building area being built there.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '4.3 " N , 6 ° 29' 57.8" E