Women's places in Saxony
With the Frauenorte sachsen project , the Landesfrauenrat Sachsen eV wants to make the diverse women's history of Saxony visible and to make role models known and thus to honor the women who have achieved special achievements in the political, social, economic, scientific, cultural and / or sporting fields. The project, launched in 2016, looks at the city and regional history of Saxony from the perspective of historical women. Young people in particular should be reached in order to make them aware of the history of women in the Free State of Saxony.
Information steles are set up at the places where the women work or where they live, or boards are attached to houses that provide information about the life and work of women. These places are public and therefore accessible at all times. Information on this can be found on the website www.frauenorte-sachsen.de.
The original idea for this honoring of women comes from Saxony-Anhalt and was developed and implemented for the world exhibition Expo2000. The “Frauenorte sachsen” project is supported by the Landesfrauenrat Sachsen eV It is funded by the Saxon State Ministry of Justice and for Democracy, Europe and Equality.
Advisory Board
The project advisory board is responsible for selecting the women’s places. This was convened at the beginning of the project in February 2016 by the Landesfrauerat Sachsen eV. The members and the chair, consisting of historians and representatives from various institutions, are re-elected every year. In addition to selecting female personalities, the advisory board also proofreads the texts on the table.
Women's places in Saxony
- Annaberg-Buchholz: Barbara Uthmann , coal and steel entrepreneur and braid dealer
- Bad Düben: Louise Hauffe , concert pianist
- Bautzen: Christel Ulbrich , dance therapist and dance and music teacher
- Chemnitz: Ernestine Minna Simon , textile worker and strike leader
- Chemnitz: Marie Luise Pleißner , women's rights activist, peace activist and teacher
- Chemnitz: Marianne Brandt , designer and photographer
- Dresden: Melitta Bentz , inventor and entrepreneur
- Dresden: Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler , avant-garde painter
- Dresden: Marie Stritt , theater actress, women's rights activist and politician
- Dresden: Charlotte Meentzen and Gertrude Seltmann-Meentzen , beauticians and entrepreneurs
- Görlitz: Mira Lobe , Jewish author for children and young people
- Königshain-Wiederau: Clara Zetkin , politician, peace activist and women's rights activist
- Leipzig: Käthe Windscheid , first German PhD in philology and pioneer for women's studies in Germany
- Leipzig: Angelika Hartmann , Froebel educator and founder of the Leipziger Froebel Association
- Leipzig: Henriette Goldschmidt , social worker and co-founder of the German women's movement
- Meißen: Louise Otto-Peters , co-founder of the bourgeois German women's movement and writer
- Radebeul: Christa Mannfeld-Hartung , committed pediatrician in Radebeul
- Schneeberg: Rosina Schnorr , mining entrepreneur in the Ore Mountains
- Zwickau: Bertha von Groitzsch , monastery donor and founder of the first parish church in Zwickau
- Zwickau: Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher , lawyer and legal historian
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Landesfrauenrat Sachsen eV: Frauenorte sachsen
- ↑ cf. Landesfrauenrat Sachsen eV: Advisory board