Monument to the fallen (St. Marien Plau)
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The memorial for the fallen in the parish church of St. Marien Plau am See commemorates those who died in Plau during the First World War.
history
The war memorial fills the northern wall of the tower room of the parish church of St. Marien (Plau am See) . Created it was from Plauer sculptor Wilhelm wall cutter , which is on the lower shoulder signed . It was on April 30, 1922 consecrated . It has no special name and is simply referred to as " Pietà - Lamentation of Christ " (in front of the indicated grave cave). The suggestion of the motif, which is not uncommon for memorials of the Weimar Republic , came from the pastor's wife Magda Wiegand-Dehn . The material is gypsum cement. The German inflation from 1914 to 1923 delayed the project several times. Expensive material could not be financed. Wandschneider only charged his hometown for the material costs. The upper part consists of seven panels with the names of the 147 fallen . The cornice bears the inscription :
The board is overwritten with a saying from the 1st letter of John ( 1st John 3:16 LUT ):
Also in the tower room, opposite the monument to the fallen, concealed and hardly noticed, memorial plaques commemorate those who fell in the Wars of Liberation and the Franco-German War . The peace movement in the GDR in 1980 meant that the boards were removed from the church. Pastor Carl-Christian Schmidt brought her back to the church from the stable floor of the former rectory (Kirchplatz 5) when he took office in 1999. In 1980, Wandschneider's monument was almost removed. Then, however, the tower room would have had to be further refurbished, so it was not done.
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- ↑ Volker Probst: Bilder vom Tode: a study on the German war memorial in the Weimar Republic using the example of the Pietà motif and its profane variants. Hamburg: Wayasbah 1986, plus dissertation Hamburg 1986 ISBN 978-3-925682-03-2