Cenotaph on Straßburger Platz
The memorial on the Straßburger Platz (also war memorial on Straßburger Platz and the war memorial on Straßburger Platz ) is a war memorial in the Lower Saxony city of Osnabrück . It is dedicated to the fallen from the Prussian Principality of Osnabrück in the Franco-German War of 1870/1871. It has been located on Straßburger Platz in the Westerberg district since 1928 . It is a listed building .
history
The design for the memorial comes from the Osnabrück city architect Emil Hackländer (1830–1902). It consists of a Corinthian-style column on a base with a square base, to which three steps lead on three sides. On the pillar was a two-meter-high bronze Germania sculpture, which was made in the Gräfliche Einsiedelschen Werke in Lauchhammer . The sculpture is erroneously referred to as Victoria on various occasions .
On the sides of the sandstone base, the names of the fallen soldiers from the cities of Osnabrück, Melle and Quakenbrück as well as the offices of the principality are named. These included the offices of Osnabrück, Fürstenau, Iburg, Gröneburg, Vörden and Wittlage. On the corners there are antique helmets, below each the names of places of the battles of the war in France; listed are Nouilly , Mars-la-Tour , Metz , Le Mans , Pontarlier , Sedan , Strasbourg , Beaune-la-Rolande , Orléans , Spichern and Paris .
On three sides of a cube above the base there are inscriptions on memorial plaques. They are:
- “His sons who stayed in the war of 1870–71. The Principality of Osnabrück "
- " Wilhelm I. German Kaiser. January 18, 1871 "
- "United in ardent struggle - bloom gloriously - haven of peace - dear fatherland!"
On August 18, 1880, the memorial was unveiled on the Osnabrück Neumarkt in a closed event, for which tickets were issued to the bereaved of the fallen and dignitaries. Speeches were given by the state councilor Gehrmann, who was chairman of the monument committee, and the mayor Heinrich Brüning . A clergyman consecrated the monument.
The memorial stood on Neumarkt until 1928. There it was dismantled due to the increasing traffic and the expansion of the tram network and moved to the Westerberg. Its location on the tree-lined Straßburger Platz is in the middle of a residential area whose streets bear names such as those of the Prussian Chancellor Bismarck and the Prussian Field Marshals Roon and Moltke .
During the Second World War , the bronze Germania statue was removed from the memorial in a metal collection and melted down. The memorial was equipped with a replica and remained unchanged until the early 21st century.
In 2003, students occupied the 12th vintage from the Council Gymnasium Osnabrück in the art advanced course with the theme -French German friendship and developed designs for a new sculpture of the monument. In January 2004 they presented their project at the meeting on the school support program "denkmal aktiv - cultural heritage makes school 2003/2004" of the German Foundation for Monument Protection in Bad Honnef . The foundation supported the project financially. The decision from among five designs fell on the sculpture "The protective torsion " by four students. In Manufactures she was from body panel of trainees in the training workshop of Wilhelm Karmann GmbH in Osnabrueck. It was hot-dip galvanized and given a colored paint. In 2006, the schoolgirls in Hanover were awarded the Lower Saxony Student Peace Prize, which has been awarded since 1992 and endowed with 5000 euros, by the Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs Bernd Busemann . The prize is awarded for actions and projects that particularly promote "international understanding, the fight against violence and the reduction of prejudice".
At the beginning of March 2009, on the day before an NPD march , the memorial was marked with the slogan “Never again Germany” on the occasion of a counter-demonstration leading across Strasbourg Square. The password was removed again.
literature
- Wendelin Zimmer: All Victims Commemorate In: City of Osnabrück, the Lord Mayor, Department of Culture, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche (Ed.): Art in public space . Osnabrück 2007, ISBN 978-3-89946-100-8 , p. 151, p. 64.
- Osnabrück genealogical research group (ed.): The monument to fallen in and around Osnabrück 2 , June 2008 edition, ISSN 1865-987X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ German Foundation for Monument Protection, monuments in the Osnabrücker Land region
- ↑ Names of the Fallen, copy from the online project Fallen Memorials from August 9, 2006
- ↑ A symbol of friendship on the Victory Column ( 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: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of December 24, 2003, on the Denkmal-aktiv.de page
- ↑ Monument active ( 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. (PDF file; 466 kB)
- ↑ Hot-dip galvanizing protects sculpture for "Franco-German friendship" ( 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: Contacts , Edition 2/2005, p. 5
- ^ Peace Prize for a Monument in five versions In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from January 20, 2006
- ↑ motto: "Nazis wegrömern" In: Bersenbrücker Kreisblatt online from March 7, 2009
- ↑ Photo of the monument with slogan
- ↑ Joachim Wolf: One people, one forest, one leader In: Jungle World from February 26, 2009
- ↑ The monument to fallen soldiers in and around Osnabrück 2 , partially digitized (PDF file)
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 '33 " N , 8 ° 1' 51.9" E