Monument to the fallen in Gehrden

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The memorial on the north side of the Margaret Church in Gehrden

The war memorial is the memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First and Second World War in Gehrden in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony .

The listed building is on Kirchstrasse at the Margarethenkirche in Gehrden.

description

A total of 227 Gehrden soldiers were killed in the First and Second World Wars. Their names are recorded in a memorial book in the town hall . Consisting Wealden - sandstone built monument called the names and dates of the First World War fallen. The general inscription on a stone tablet made of Soest green sandstone a few steps below the monument is intended to commemorate the Gehrdeners who fell in World War II .

In 2014, the Heimatbund Lower Saxony sought to commemorate the names of those killed in World War II with a new memorial.

Further war memorials in Gehrden

The war memorial from 1871 next to the tower of the Margaret Church commemorates those who fell in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71.

A memorial on the Gehrdener Berg commemorates Carl Ludwig von Holle, who died in the battle of Waterloo . Since 1986 there has been a memorial for expellees on Lange Feldstrasse . In addition, two stumbling blocks have been laid in Gehrden so far .

The villages that were incorporated into Gehrden in 1971 usually have their own war memorials.

Web links

Commons : Gehrden Fallen Memorial  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. the map in: Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.), Henner Hannig (Ed.): District of Hanover. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony , Volume 13.1.) Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden, 1988, ISBN 3-528-06207-X , p. 107.
  2. ↑ a b c dw: Heimatbund wants to redesign the memorial stone at the church. Calenberger Zeitung, accessed on June 6, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b c Gehrden, church, Lyrabank, war memorials in: Naturhistorische Gesellschaft zu Hannover (ed.): The Deister. Nature. Human. Story . To Klampen, Springe 2017, ISBN 978-3-86674-545-2 , p.  361-363 .
  4. ^ Gehrden, Region Hannover, Lower Saxony. www.denkmalprojekt.org, accessed on September 28, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 18 '48 "  N , 9 ° 36' 4.8"  E