Horst Wessel Monument (Süntel)
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The Horst Wessel memorial on the Süntel (Lower Saxony) was a memorial for the SA storm leader Horst Wessel who was killed in 1930 . It was built between 1933 and 1938 on behalf of the city of Hameln according to plans by the garden designer Wolf. The construction created a visual link over almost 13 kilometers to the Bückeberg south of the city , on which the Reichserntedankfeste took place from 1933 to 1937 .
The master mason Röbbecke from Pötzen was commissioned with the execution of the monument . The stone column measured 1.60 x 1.60 x 12 meters and was built from natural stones from the quarry 600 m to the southwest. Concrete and steel reinforcement installed inside was used for strength . A five-meter-tall iron swastika was attached to the top . The square in front of the monument, which offered space for over a thousand people, has now been destroyed and can no longer be recognized as such. The inauguration took place on February 26, 1939; on April 20, 1945 it was blown up by US troops.
literature
- Tobias Dobratz, Flavio Venturelli: Horst Wessel monuments in Lower Saxony. Cult of favors and propaganda in the Nazi open space design in: Unter der GrasSarbe. Design of open spaces in Lower Saxony during the Nazi dictatorship as a monument preservation theme , Hanover conference, 26. – 29. March 2014, pp. 20-25 ( Online , pdf)
Web links
- Detailed description
- History in detail, plan drawings, photos, 3D model of the monument
- Bernhard Gelderblom : The "Memorial" for Horst Wessel on the Süntel. “Real son of the Lower Saxony soil” in Dewezet on February 29, 2016
- Dorothee Balzereit: Hidden in the forest - also to protect against yesterday in Dewezet on April 20, 2017
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 45.4 ″ N , 9 ° 23 ′ 37 ″ E