European monument

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There are European monuments in several places within Europe .

European monument at the border triangle Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg

European monument between Ouren ( B ), Sevenig ( D ) and Lieler ( L )
Memorial stone (B / D / L)

This European monument ( ⊙ ; French name: Monument des trois Frontières ) is located near the border triangle Belgium - Germany - Luxembourg (B / D / L) on the territory of Belgium and Luxembourg.

The monument is located on the northern border of the German-Luxembourgish Nature Park in the northwesternmost corner of the Southern Eifel nature reserve between Ouren (B; north), Sevenig (D; east) and Lieler (L; west). It is located just 2 km west of the Rhineland-Palatinate state road  1, about 1 km south-southeast of the Belgian town of Ouren, to whose municipality it belongs, and 150 m west of the border river Our at an altitude of about 320  m . The Belgian-Luxembourg border runs directly through the monument in a west-east direction. The European monument, inaugurated on October 22, 1977, was erected by the European Association for the Eifel and Ardennes . It goes back to the then president of this association, Georges Wagner from Luxembourg, after whom a bridge over the Our was named.

The European monument is surrounded by a green area with five large stone blocks, information boards and flagpoles. The names of the “champions for a united Europe” ( Konrad Adenauer , Joseph Bech , Paul-Henri Spaak and Robert Schuman ) are attached to four stones . The fifth stone commemorates the Treaty of Rome and the signatories from the six participating states.

European monument in Luxembourg

European monument and segment of the Berlin Wall on the banks of the Moselle in Schengen ( L )

This European monument ( ⊙ ) is located in the municipality of Schengen , which is located in the southern part of the Luxembourgish district of Grevenmacher, immediately west of the German municipality of Perl, a few meters from the border triangle Luxembourg-Germany-France. It stands near the western bank of the Moselle and was set up a little northeast of the Center European Schengen .

In the Schengen Agreement of 1985 , the five European states Belgium , Germany , France , Luxembourg and the Netherlands agreed to dispense with controls on passenger traffic at their common borders. The agreement is named after the Luxembourg Moselle town of Schengen, where it was signed on June 14, 1985.

European monument in Bavaria

This Europe Monument ( ⊙ ) is in the northeast part of Bavaria (BY, Germany ) in Wunsiedel , of the Fichtelgebirge located county seat of Upper Franconian district of Wunsiedel . It stands east of the city center near the northwest corner of Jean-Paul-Strasse and Ludwigstrasse and was made of Wunsiedler marble .

European monument in Rhineland-Palatinate

This monument ( ⊙ ) is located in the southern part of Rhineland-Palatinate (RP; Germany ) on the south-eastern edge of Sankt Germanshof , a district of the Bobenthal community in the Palatinate Forest near the French border ( district of Südwestpfalz ). State road  478, which is followed by Department road  334 in France , leads directly north-east past the monument standing at about 170  m ; The Wieslauter flows past a little to the southwest . On the other side or south-east of the border is Wissembourg -Weiler.

The monument was inaugurated on September 9, 2007. On August 6, 1950, hundreds of students from nine different countries gathered at the location where it is today to stand up for a united Europe in peace and freedom with a European Parliament. The memorial is intended to recall and honor what happened at that time.

European monument in Saarland

European monument, Berus ( SL )
Information on the European monument in Berus

This European monument ( ⊙ ) is in the southwest of Saarland (SL; Germany ) in the Saarlouis district in Berus , a district of the municipality of Überherrn . It is located on Orannastraße and is about 1500 m from the French border.

The monument in Berus was erected from 1966 to 1970 at the suggestion of the Saarland politician Helmut Bulle, who thinks European , and was unveiled on May 24, 1970. It is a construction of two 16 m high concrete slabs arranged vertically and parallel next to each other, which are connected in the upper part by a bundle of steel bars with a cross-shaped profile, which should indicate the common past of the Saarland / Lorraine region as a mining site . In the lower part there is a viewing platform from which the view extends both into the Saar valley and into France .

It is dedicated to three well-known Europeans ( Robert Schuman , Konrad Adenauer and Alcide de Gasperi ); the monument also honors two other co-founders of the European Community ( Joseph Bech and Paul-Henri Spaak ).

See also

literature

  • Martin Niedermeyer / Peter Moll: SaarLorLux - from the mining triangle to the “Greater Region”. Chances and possibilities of a cross-border regional policy in Europe. In: H. Peter Dörrenbächer / Olaf Kühne / Juan Manuel Wagner (eds.): 50 Years of Saarland in Transition (= publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland 44). Saarbrücken 2007, pp. 297–321.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The European monument at the border triangle Belgium-Germany-Luxembourg (B / D / L; Ouren), on eastbelgium.com, accessed on September 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ This is where Europe meets ( memento from September 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (Europadenkmal B / D / L; Ouren), on ourtal.com, accessed on September 26, 2016.
  3. ↑ Center European Schengen (Information Center Europe Direct Schengen European Museum) , onschengen-tourist.lu, accessed on September 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
  5. ↑ Berus European Monument, on uni-saarland.de, accessed on September 26, 2016.
  6. ↑ The European Monument in Berus (Saarland; SL), article by Kurt Schoenen , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, accessed on September 26, 2016.

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