Helmet off to prayer (Lübeck)
The memorial helmet off for prayer at the memorial cemetery to Lübeck was on May 10, 1925 to commemorate the the World War II dead dedicated to the regiment.
prehistory
The garrison town had created a cemetery of honor for its fallen sons by the horticultural director Maasz , which was recognized as one of the most beautiful such creations of the empire.
On 29 July 1919, the Senate approved the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck to the settlement agent of Infantry Regiment Lübeck using the funds from the regiment's Loigny Foundation the establishment of the then developing the central memorial site of the cemetery memorial.
At the annual meeting of Officers' Association 162 in 1921 it was decided to erect a memorial worthy of the place . The Lübeck architect v. Ladiges had supported this project in an altruistic advisory capacity since the spring of 1922 .
A monument committee was chaired by General v. Heynitz and the honorary chairman of the mayor Neumann and the general of the infantry v. Formed tomorrow .
The committee was faced several times with the question of temporarily abandoning the construction plan in view of the dwindling funds.
The architects of Lübeck offered themselves at the suggestion of v. Ladiges to an invitation to tender for the monument at which v. Ladiges did not attend, which should be free for the committee. The decision then fell on the design "Morituri" (author Oberbaurat Virck , architect Max Meyer and the Hamburg sculptor Kuöhl ) with the stipulation that the kneeling figure of the warrior praying at the grave of his comrades in an upright, not only sadness , but also strength , despite and confidence in the future is to convert documenting warrior figure. This would correspond to the spirit of their 162s .
From the realization of this task, the committee members were satisfactory in the various stages of development by its personal visit in the workshop of the artist .
Installation site
The committee considered the pros and cons of the planned sites for the memorial. They were inspected and the impressions were also collected with the erection of pole frames. The originally intended installation in the “forecourt” of the honor grove was discarded in favor of the chosen one. The regimental memorial does not stand somewhere “on” the cemetery of honor, but rather forms its coronation as an integral part of the cemetery of honor. The Kücknitz pastor Kurt Ziesenitz gave the commemorative speech at the Whitsun celebrations in 1916.
The memorial retained this position after the victims of the Second World War were enlarged .
statue
Helmet off to prayer is an approximately four meter high statue made of shell limestone . It stands on a pedestal and depicts a soldier praying at the graves of his comrades. His angular-looking face is marked by the horrors of war.
On the base is the inscription :
- 1914-1918 / the fallen heroes / the Inf.Regts. Lübeck / 3. Hanseatic No. 162/85 officers / 1755 NCOs and men.
framed by the sentence taken from Ludwig Uhland's The Good Comrade :
- I had a comrade you won't find a better one
An expert a journal whose thereat sentence was printed in the hard number, stated in his article that the inscription let all the size and solemnity of the "helmet off for prayer" feel alive.
The substructure of the figure and the wall surrounding it in a semicircle with the annual plaques on which the locations are noted were produced according to a design by the senior building officer Friedrich Wilhelm Virck in collaboration with the architect Max Meyer. The horticultural facility was created by Harry Maasz.
The original plan to place the monument in the forecourt or at the gate entrance itself was abandoned and the issue of space was resolved thanks to a suggestion from Maasz. The intended inauguration of the memorial was scheduled for July 29, 1923. However, in consideration of the announced undertakings of the Communist Party , which had announced a demonstration Sunday for that day in Lübeck , it was omitted and, as it was said, postponed to better times. The monument was unveiled in silence .
inauguration
The intended inauguration of the memorial was scheduled for July 29, 1923. However, out of consideration for the announced activities of the Communist Party , which had announced a demonstration Sunday for that day , it was omitted and, it was said, postponed to better times.
The solemn unveiling of the monument, scheduled for July 27, 1924, had to be carried out in complete silence .
On the 2nd regiment day of the 162s, May 10, 1925, the consecration was carried out in a festive setting. After a consecration service in the overcrowded Marienkirche , people moved to the cemetery of honor, where the consecration was performed by Pastor Herrmann Balcke.
swell
- Festival number on the occasion of the consecration of our memorial at the Lübeck cemetery and the 2nd regiment day on 9/10. May 1925
- Memorial of the Lübeck Regiment (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162 In: Vaterstädtische Blätter ; Born in 1923, issue of July 29, 1923
- Memorial consecration of the 162er In: Vaterstädtische Blätter ; Born 1924/25, edition of May 24, 1925
Web links
Archives
Individual evidence
- ^ Otto Dziobek : History of the Lübeck Infantry Regiment (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162 ; Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1922 Oldenburg i. O., Officers' Association formerly 162
- ↑ to its members including Pastor Balcke, merchants Boie and Schmidt-Römhild , the senators Ewers and Vermehren as well as consul Fehling and Tesdorpf
- ↑ Both v. Heynitz and v. Tomorrow after her death they were buried in the Ehrenfriedhof.
- ↑ see on this German inflation 1914 to 1923
- ↑ so the official name of the monument
- ↑ The title of the journal was not mentioned and, until now, could not be found out.
- ↑ The of the Communist Party announced "demonstration Sunday" went because meetings were prohibited under the open sky and parades, quiet after a after a meeting in the central halls held crowd at City Hall was scattered.
- ↑ The memorial of the Lübeck regiment. , in: Von Lübeck's Towers , Volume 33, No. 16, Issue of August 11, 1923, p. 64.
- ↑ Category: Newsreel. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1922/23, No. 23, edition of August 12, 1923, p. 92.
- ↑ The memorial of the Lübeck regiment. In: Von Lübeck's Towers , 33rd year, No. 16, edition of August 11, 1923, p. 64.
- ↑ Category: Newsreel. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1922/23, No. 23, edition of August 12, 1923, p. 92.