Remembrance and monuments in Lübeck
Remembrance and memorials in Lübeck is a list of panorama-free sculptures, objects, memorial and commemorative plaques in the city of Lübeck , which are memorials to a certain person or a certain event. They are arranged in the chronological order of the topics listed.
Sculptures and objects without a reference to a specific person or historical event can be found in the list Sculptures and Objects in Lübeck .
Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Heinrich the Lion Monument
Lübeck copy of the Brunswick Lion
Lion in large
On October 9, 1930, the memorial to Lübeck's second founder, Duke Heinrich the Lion , was opened in the garden of the museum by the museum's director, Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg , and the director of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , Adolf Ihde , to hand over. The installation took place at the point that the Duke is likely to have entered first when the cathedral was founded on the wooded hill near the Trave.
Heinrich the Lion had the original of the lion built in Braunschweig between 1163 and 1181. Today's cast in front of Lübeck Cathedral was made in 1975. As in Ratzeburg and Schwerin, the lion is a reminder of the duke's founding.
Foundation stone Katharinenkirche (1335)
Commemorative plaque for the laying of the foundation stone of the Katharinenkirche by the Lübeck bishop Heinrich II. Bochholt on July 23, 1335 in the west facade on the Königstraße to the left of the main portal.
Kleverschusskreuz (1436)
On Roeckstraße at the level of the city park, just before the fork in Arnimstraße (formerly the old country road towards Wismar) and Marlistraße (towards Mark Brandenburg).
Lübeck Way of the Cross (1493)
Portal Füchtingshof (1639)
19th century
Arnim memorial
On Wesloer Landstrasse there is the memorial stone for the major of the Hanseatic Legion Friedrich WL von Arnim , who was fatally hit by a stray bullet on September 5, 1813 while attempting to defeat the French-Danish occupation force in Lübeck. The (southern) inscription reads: “FRIEDR: WILH: LUDW von ARNIM / AUS DEM HAUSE SUCKOW / KÖNIGL: PREUSS: U: GROSBRITT: / MAIOR / RITTER DES MERIT AND / JOHANNITER = ORDENS / FIRST LEADER OF THE / HANSEATISCHEN REBUTEREI / GE D: 10 APRIL 1780 / FALLEN D: 5 SEPT: 1813 / IN AN ATTEMPT TO LÜBECK'S LIBERATION ”. On the north side it reads: “FOR THE FATHERLAND / HE SHED HIS BLOOD / HAS ALSO FROM HIS BLOOD / YOU ARE HEALED / THINK GRATEFUL THOSE THAT / YOU WALK BY / AND PRAISE IT IN THE / HAPPY DAYS OF FREEDOM / ALWAYS HEROFOLIOUS / GOOD DARE BLOOD / WHEN THE FATHERLAND / IN NOTH YOU SEE / * / THIS MONUMENT / PLACED THE HERO / FAITHFUL COMBAT “
These verses come from the Reformed pastor Johannes Geibel (the father of Emanuel Geibel ), who also organized the inauguration ceremony of Lübeck's first war memorial attended on October 18, 1814.
Bismarck monument
Opposite the equestrian image of the emperor is the monument of the former Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in the park of Lindenplatz in front of the Lübeck train station at Lindenplatz . The statue , created by Hans Hundrieser based on his second-placed design for the Hamburg Bismarck monument , was unveiled on Sedan Day in 1903 on today's Holstentorplatz by the then mayor Heinrich Klug and received on behalf of the Senate and the citizenship. It was cast by the Lauchhammer art and bell foundry .
Geibel monument
The monument to the poet Emanuel Geibel by Hermann Volz is located on the Koberg , between the Holy Spirit Hospital and the Jakobikirche on Geibelplatz . It was unveiled in 1889 and moved several times to Koberg, which was called Geibelplatz from 1889 to 1936.
Prahl Monument
On July 7, 1820, a memorial to Jürgen Paul Prahl was inaugurated on the site of his execution. The three-meter-high obelisk , designed by classicist architects and Lübeck city architect Joseph Christian Lillie , bears the inscriptions on the front of the violence of arms erkohr zum Sacrifice the peaceful citizen as well as Heartfelt thanks to the Lord everyone who makes freedom happy , and on the back , JP Prahl sank the VII July MDCCCXIII and General Respect for Innocence. MDCCCXX established by united offices.
Since this part of the Lübeck ramparts was removed during the construction of the Elbe-Lübeck Canal in 1898 , the monument was moved around 50 meters to the top of a remaining rampart, where it is still located today.
Luther beech
To commemorate the 700th anniversary of the cathedral (1873), an offshoot of the Luther beech from the Luther monument (Steinbach) arrived in Lübeck near Bad Liebenstein in Thuringia and was planted in the cathedral cemetery.
Franco-German War
On the Burgtorfriedhof in the two tombs for Luebeck during the Franco-German war dead soldiers of both countries was to 1914 every year since the Hanseatic City does not have a large public generally accessible War Memorial, on Sedan Day remembered of the dead.
The grave of the German soldiers who died in Lübeck as a result of their wounds was built as a tall, richly decorated sandstone monument, the tower-like structure of which was crowned by an iron cross . The dead listed on the back of the monument come from the "Garrison-Lazareth des Mecklb.-Schwerin. Gren.-Reg. No. 89 , 1st bat. "
A few steps to the right of the German is that of the French soldiers who died here, in the form of a granite boulder that was then overgrown by ivy. Its inscription indicates that the soldiers who died in the reserve hospital in Lübeck are resting there.
Lübeck itself does not have a large public monument to its fallen soldiers, mostly fusiliers from the local battalion of the 2nd Hanseatic Infantry Regiment No. 76 , that war. These are listed on notable boards in the north ambulatory of the Marienkirche .
20th century
Langenbuch memorial stone
Memorial stele for Metaphius Theodor August Langenbuch , the creator of the Lübeck city park .
Kaiser Wilhelm Monument
In the green area on Lindenplatz , Kaiser Wilhelm I is depicted on horseback based on a model by the sculptor Louis Tuaillon . It was the last equestrian statue to be erected for the emperor in Germany in 1912–21.
Fountain on Von-Großheim-Platz
At the end of December 1912, his hometown commemorated their son, the architect Karl von Großheim , by building a fountain on the square in front of his parents' house at Bäckerstraße 21, which bore his name. In the atelier of the company Kayser und v. The semicircular system designed by Grossheim fits into the square. The middle structure carried the bronze portrait donated by the wife of the deceased, which was created by Professor Manzel . To the right and left of the inscription below, shells let their jets of water flow into a basin, which was joined by high-backed benches on both sides. The end was structured by four pillars with ornamentally treated flower crowns. The fountain, which was appropriately connected to its surroundings by horticultural systems, consisted of shell limestone .
Gymnastics Memorial
For the First World War dead of Lübeck Turnerschaft designed Hans Schwegerle early 1920s, a memorial on the sports field Buniamshof .
Monument in the Dornbreite
In 1932, when there was no work for 20,000 pairs of hands in Lübeck, the Reich gave 450,000 RM building loans for 165 settler positions and 600 allotment gardens
Dying warrior
(Central) memorial for Hans Küstermann by the sculptor Fritz Behn (1919) on behalf of the widow for the cemetery of honor .
Helmet off to prayer
War memorial for those who fell in the First World War of the Lübeck Infantry Regiment (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162 by Richard Kuöhl . It has been in the Ehrenfriedhof since 1923 , but - as it was called due to political circumstances - it was not inaugurated until 1926.
Memorial stone for the former members of the Lübeck regiment who died in German South West Africa
To mark the tenth anniversary of its existence, the Comradeship Association of the former 76ers and 162s in Lübeck donated a memorial stone to the former members of the regiment who died in German South West Africa .
This stood in the yard of the Marli barracks (1st Battalion) and was handed over to the commander on June 23, 1907.
According to the Lübeck newspapers, the fact that the date did not coincide with the regiment's foundation day was due to the bad weather at the time and the regiment's stay in the Lockstedt camp.
Today, the plaque is almost illegible, covered with verdigris , on the floor of the cemetery of honor .
Cenotaph at the tram depot
- From the former tram depot of Stadtverkehr Lübeck in Roeckstraße, only the war memorial for the fallen Lübeck trams of the First World War has been preserved next to the porter's office on the former premises.
- Origin: 1935
- Material: steel on a brick stele, the individual bricks contain the names of the fallen and the year the monument was created in relief.
- Location: Roeckstrasse
War memorial of the Mariengemeinde
In the Marienkirchhof at the Marienkirche in Lübeck is the monument made of Swedish granite from Karlshamn, created in 1929 by the sculptor Hermann Joachim Pagels for the parish . The inscription reads: But now there remains faith, hope, love ( 1 Cor 13:13 LUT ), The St. Mary's Congregation for its dead 1914 1918 later added: and 1939 1945
Cenotaph at the Provost Church of the Heart of Jesus
Next to the entrance to the Sacred Heart Church on the parade . Simple cross with Christ's monogram in the center and the inscription: + OUR CHURCHES FALLEN IN THE WORLD WAR 1914–1918 + 1939–1945
Memorial to Carl Hans Lody
In the outer wall next to the castle gate ; created by Otto Mantzel , inaugurated on November 6, 1934, removed except for the inscription in 1946.
Jahn memorial
In an oak grove on Travemünder Allee that was planted in 1870/71 is the monument made in 1936 by an unknown stonemason for the gymnastics father Friedrich Ludwig Jahn from Saxon granite with the motif of the four Fs .
Luther monument
- The monument to Martin Luther created by the sculptor Fritz Behn in 1937 adorns the facade of the Luther Church , which is the only new church in the architectural conception of the German Christians and the Nazi state in Lübeck. The sculpture made from Lower Franconian shell limestone is Behn's last work for Lübeck.
- Origin: 1937
- Location: Moislinger Allee, Luther Church
v. Moltke monument
In 1891 Heinrich Titus Borchers , partner in the printing works of the Borchers Brothers , and years before that, a certain von Moltke lived at Breiten Strasse 61 . In the Lübeck advertisements printed there every day , on May 3, 1891, he first called for donations for a memorial by Moltkes . The design by the Austrian architect Julius Alexander Kubik , who was employed by the Lübeck municipal building authority , was carried out in 1893 by the sculptor Emil Köhne at the stone carving company JC Rechtglaub . Its inscription read: Count Helmuth von Moltke lived in this house, 1804 - 1806
The medallion was cast by the foundryman Johann Jürgen Huebner .
When it was demolished in 1901, the sandstone of the monument unveiled in 1893, which was offended by the inscription, could not be saved. The medallion was saved and since then has been emblazoned in various places in the Karstadt building, today on the wall of an entrance to the department store.
Monument test site lake
The memorial in Wiekstrasse on Priwall commemorates the dead at the See trial site , which existed here from 1928 to 1945. It is shaped like a tall, slender brick tower. A single-bladed propeller on the tip . Two plaques with inscriptions in the base area.
Buxtehude memory sculpture
- 1964 as art in the construction of the Neue Heimat for the residential estate in the musicians' quarter of Lübeck-St. Lorenz's abstract sculpture for the Lübeck organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude by Vilma Lehrmann-Amschler
- Location: Green area at the end of Haydnstrasse.
Memorial for the victims of the National Socialist tyranny
- Origin: 1986
- Material:
- Location: Memorial at the end of the parade next to the armory at the cathedral
Memorial plaques for the Lübeck martyrs
- Memorial plaques for the four Lübeck clergymen executed by the National Socialists
- Listed in 2004
- Location: Rathaus-Arkaden
- Material: plexiglass on sandstone panels
The Catholic clergy Lange, Müller and Prassek were founded in 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI. beatified.
Monument to Otto Passarge
- Memorial for the mayor of Lübeck during the reconstruction period after the Second World War Otto Passarge by Josef Wieczorek .
- Origin: 1998
- Location: in front of the administration building of the Lübeck building association
Death march memorial stele
- Stele commemorating the Fürstengrube death march
- Origin: 1999
- Location: on the southwest corner of the Burgfeld
Memorial stone Liberation 1945
- Memorial stone for the liberation of Lübeck 1945. Inscription above: May 2nd / May 1945 / Liberation / Lübeck from the / national-social / alistic / dictatorship
Inscription: Excerpts from the Basic Law
- Location: on the field side of the Holsten Gate (left)
Deportation of the Lübeck Jews
Next to the entrance portal of Lübeck main station is the memorial "Before the eyes of all" by Friederike Juerß. It is a different kind of memorial. On three flagpoles there are flags with the thoughts of the victims - for example excerpts from the farewell letters of the deportees. The flag texts are exchanged on different anniversaries. The memorial was opened on December 7, 2013 (location: coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 0.9 ″ N , 10 ° 40 ′ 13.3 ″ E ). The commemorative flags will be exchanged on different commemorative days: January 27, 1945 : Auschwitz concentration camp liberated; February 26, 1943 , April 2, 1942 and July 16, 1942 : deportation to Theresienstadt; May 2, 1945 : End of the war in Lübeck; May 16, 1940 : Deportation of Sinti and Roma from Lübeck to Auschwitz; September 16, 1940 : Deportation of patients from the Strecknitz sanatorium and the Vorwerker homes; December 6, 1941 : Jews from Lübeck are deported to Riga
Hafenstrasse Memorial
In 2015 inaugurated memorial to the arson attack on the asylum seekers residence at Hafenstrasse 52 on January 18, 1996. Ten people died in this.
The memorial stone is not far from the place where the demolished house stood on Hafenstrasse / corner of Konstinstrasse, where there is now a parking lot.
Memorial to homosexuals persecuted under National Socialism
The memorial for homosexuals persecuted under National Socialism is a supplement to the central memorial for the victims of the National Socialist tyranny at the parade between the Zeughaus and the House of Cultures in Lübeck . The cast iron memorial plaque was unveiled on January 23, 2016 and comes from the Lübeck artist Erich Lethgau. The monument is the 8th of its kind in the world in an inner-city area.
Memorials and monuments that no longer exist today
- Memorial to those who fell in the Wars of Liberation, St. Marien, destroyed in 1942
- Memorial to the fallen soldiers of the First World War of the Oberschule zum Dom von Asmus Jessen (1923), model railway, destroyed in 1942
- Memorial for the fallen of the First World War of the cathedral parish of Asmus Jessen (1924), destroyed in 1942
literature
- Klaus Bernhard: Plastic in Lübeck - Documentation of art in public space (1436–1985) in: Publications of the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck -Amt für Kultur-, Series B, Issue 8, Lübeck 1986. ISBN 3-924214-31-X
- Adolf Clasen: Unrecognized treasures - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002. ISBN 3-7950-0475-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1930/31, No. 2, edition of October 25, 1930, p. 8.
- ↑ Peter Seiler: The Braunschweiger Burglöwe - Securing evidence in search of artistic models. In: Luckhardt, Niehoff (Hrsg.): Heinrich the lion and his time. Volume 2 (Essays), p. 244.
- ↑ Illustration and text with translation in Clasen, p. 178 ff.
- ^ Bernhard, p. 1 f.
- ^ Bismarck Memorial , Art in Public Space Lübeck, accessed on December 17, 2016
- ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , volume 45, number 36, edition of September 6, 1903, p. 462.
- ^ Image of the inscription on the monument. Retrieved February 14, 2017 .
- ↑ The war graves in the general church field. In: Father-city sheets . Year 1903, No. 37, edition of September 13, 1903, pp. 289–291.
- ↑ Karl-v.-Grossheim-Brunnen in Lübeck . In Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 33, No. 65 (August 16, 1913), p. 431.
- ↑ Abram B. Enns : Art and Citizenship. The controversial twenties in Lübeck. Christians / Weiland, Hamburg / Lübeck 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0571-8 , p. 56
- ^ Bernhard, p. 14 f.
- ↑ Bernhard, p. 16 f.
- ↑ Bernhard, p. 19 f.
- ↑ Ortwin Pelc: A memorial from the Nazi era at the Lübeck Castle Gate. In: Der Wagen 2002, pp. 132-138
- ↑ Buxtehude-Gedächtnis-Plastik , Art in Public Space Lübeck, accessed on January 15, 2018