List of monuments and statues of the city of Braunschweig

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Scattered across the city of Braunschweig are numerous memorials and memorials , statues, reliefs , memorial stones and plaques that have been put up on various occasions over the centuries. However, some of these works are no longer available for various reasons (mostly due to wars).

Undoubtedly the most important works in terms of art history and urban history are also the oldest:

The list does not claim to be complete, but is continuously updated. A chronological breakdown according to the date of creation or listing is used for easier orientation:

12th Century

Imervard Cross

Imervard Cross

Brunswick lion

Brunswick lion

13th Century

Tomb of Henry the Lion and Mathilde

Tomb of Henry the Lion and Mathilde

14th Century

Stifter statue in the Brunswick Cathedral

Presumably founder statue of Heinrich in Braunschweig Cathedral; but possibly also the depiction of his son, the later Roman-German king and emperor Otto IV.

15th century

17 statues at the old town hall

The old town hall

17th century

Stechinelli

Stechinelli

18th century

Monument to Duke Leopold

Monument to Duke Leopold

19th century

Obelisk on the Lion Wall

The obelisk on the Lion Wall

Olfermann monument

Olfermann monument
  • Erected: October 18, 1832
  • Occasion: 10th anniversary of the death of Johann Elias Olfermann , Braunschweig officer in the wars of liberation and after the death of the “Black Duke” leader of the Braunschweig troops in the battle of Waterloo .
  • Design: unknown
  • Version: unknown
  • Material: sandstone
  • Installation site: on the Nussberg in Braunschweig
  • Particularities:
  • Status: in the same place

Schill monument

Schill monument

Obelisk in Ölper

Obelisk in Ölper
  • Erected: October 15, 1843
  • Occasion: Commemoration of the battle at Ölper on August 1, 1809
  • Draft:
  • Execution:
  • Material: iron
  • Installation site: Ölper
  • Special features: A relief with four lions runs around the base of the obelisk (possibly a quote from the obelisk from the lion wall).
  • Status: in the same place

Friedrich Wilhelm Oak

The Friedrich Wilhelm Oak

Lessing memorial

Lessing memorial

Brunswick Quadriga

Braunschweiger Quadriga (2009) on the central building of the Braunschweiger Castle
  • Erected: 1858–1863, 1865–1868, and 2008
  • Occasion: New construction or extension of the Braunschweig Castle
  • Design: Ernst Rietschel
  • Execution: Georg Ferdinand Howaldt ( driving work 1858–1863 and 1865–1868), Emil Kosicki foundry in Posen (2006–2008)
  • Material: copper 1858–1863 and 1865–1868, bronze 2006–2008
  • Installation location: on the central building of the Braunschweig castle facade ( 52 ° 15 ′ 48 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 38 ″  E )
  • Special features: The 3rd version of the Quadriga was made after the remains of the 2nd version had been completely scrapped as part of the demolition of the castle in 1960, based on a 1: 3 original model by Rietschel.
  • Status: Only the head remains of the original from 1863 and can be viewed in the municipal museum . Since the spring of 2007, the 3rd version of the Quadriga should be on the new building of the Braunschweig Palace. Static problems delayed the planned date until 2008, when the “largest quadriga in Europe” finally returned to the castle in October.

Bust of Wilhelm Erdmann Florian von Thielau

from Thielau

Heinrichsbrunnen

Heinrichsbrunnen

Equestrian statue of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm

The " Black Duke"

Equestrian statue of Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand

Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand

Gauss monument

CF Gauss

Honor column

  • Erected: around 1880
  • Occasion: Honoring Duke Wilhelm von Braunschweig on his 50th anniversary in government
  • Design: Constantin Uhde
  • Execution: Constantin Uhde
  • Material:
  • Installation site: Münzstraße at the level of the Domplatz
  • Particularities:
  • Status: Time of removal and whereabouts unknown

Victory Monument

Victory Monument on Victory Square .

Bust of Franz Abt (1891)

Franz Abt memorial from 1891

Relief portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm Reuter

FW Reuter

Relief portrait of Albert Gottlieb Methfessel

Meth fetter
  • Established: 1898
  • Occasion: Honoring Albert Gottlieb Methfessels
  • Design: Hermann Siedentop (* 1864; † 1943)
  • Execution: ?
  • Material: stucco
  • Installation site: Am Magnitor 7, Methfessels residential building
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

20th century

Bugenhagen Memorial (1902)

Bugenhagen memorial from 1902.

Herzog Wilhelm Monument

Herzog Wilhelm Monument on the day of its unveiling: May 7, 1904.

Till Eulenspiegel

Eulenspiegel
  • Established: 1905
  • Occasion: Tribute to Till Eulenspiegel
  • Design: Arnold Kramer
  • Execution:
  • Material: bronze
  • Place of installation: Bäckerklint
  • Special features: fountain figure, around three meerkats and two owls based on the story "How Eulenspiegel hired a bread baker as a baker's journeyman and how he baked owls and meerkats".
  • Status: in the same place

4 soldiers statues

  • Established: 1907
  • Occasion: -
  • Design: Hermann Siedentop (* 1864; † 1943)
  • Execution: Paul Rinckleben
  • Material: metal
  • Place of installation: Oker Bridge at Fallersleber Tor
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: Melted down during World War II .

Runestone

South side of the rune stone
  • Established: April 14, 1909
  • Occasion: Dedication to the runes .
  • Design: Paul Kahle (city geometer)
  • Execution: Paul Kahle (city geometer)
  • Material: Red granite - Findling
  • Installation site: On the south side of the Municipal Museum , east of the Gaußschule ( 52 ° 15 ′ 39 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 53 ″  E )
  • Special features: East side of the stone: Name of the executor and donor: P Kahle, West side: Abbreviated names of the donors of the stone, North side: various runes, South side: Dedication “The Runes”.
  • Status: in the same place

Flute player

Flute player
  • Established: 1910/11
  • Occasion:
  • Design: Arnold Kramer
  • Execution:
  • Material: bronze
  • Installation site: 1983 in the garden of the Gerloff villa ; then municipal building yard, since 2013 on a green area of ​​the Hohetorwall
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

Monument to Prince Albrecht

Monument to Prince Albrecht

"Henry the Lion in Iron"

Henry the Lion in Iron

Memorial stone for the fallen of the First and Second World War of the St. Martini Congregation

Memorial stone of the St. Martini Congregation
  • Established: after 1917
  • Occasion: In memory of those who died in the First World War (1914–1918) and in the Second World War (1939–1945) of the Martini community .
  • Design: unknown
  • Version: unknown
  • Material: stone
  • Installation site: southwest side of the Martini church .
  • Special features: Inscription: "(Illustration of an iron cross ) / 1914 - 1918 / Your fallen and missing sons / The St. Martini community / 1939 - 1945"
  • Status: in the same place

Colonial monument

Colonial monument
  • Established: June 14, 1925
  • Occasion: Commemoration of the German colonies lost in the First World War and the German soldiers who died there
  • Design: Herman Flesche
  • Execution: Jakob Hofmann
  • Material: stone
  • Installation site: Stadtpark ( 52 ° 16 ′ 11 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 48 ″  E )
  • Special features: Appeal for donations by the "Association of Former East Asians and Africans" .
  • Status: Original site at the end of Jasperallee ; with the road breakthrough through the city park in the 1930s, the monument was moved to its current location; so far in the same place

Memorial column for the Reserve Infantry Regiment 273

Res. Inf.-Rgt 273
  • Established: 1925
  • Occasion: Commemoration of the fallen of the First World War
  • Design: unknown
  • Version: unknown
  • Material: stone (column and base) and metal ( iron cross )
  • Place of installation: East side of the Gaußberg
  • Special features: The inscription "Den Helden des Reserve Infanterie-Regiment 273 - 1914-1918" is located under an oak leaf on the column . On the four sides of the base are (barely legible) the following places where the regiment was deployed: Bussiares , Bzowica ( Galicia ), Chemin des Dames , Gricourt , Jaroslawice (last equestrian battle in world history), Novon (? Illegible), Sereth ( Bukowina ), Verdun , Zbricz (? Illegible), Złota Góra (Poland)
  • Status: in the same place

Fighting deer

Fighting deer, Ebertallee Riddagshausen

Broomstick

Broomstick
  • Erected: June 28, 1939 or June 3, 1987
  • Occasion: Renovation of the Braunschweiger Neustadt 1933–39 (completion of the 1st [and only] section)
  • Design: Jakob Hofmann
  • Execution: Jakob Hofmann
  • Material: metal
  • Place of installation: originally on the children's playground Weberstrasse, corner of Langestrasse
  • Special features: The original broomstick was stored during the Second World War and placed on Hugo-Luther-Straße after the end of the war, where it was probably stolen by junk robbers in 1953 . In 1954, a stone copy was placed in front of the Braunschweiger Baugenossenschaft building on Mauernstrasse. After numerous damages, a bronze figure was cast again on June 3, 1987 on the occasion of the centenary of the building cooperative.
  • Status: the new broom man is back on Mauernstrasse

Fish man

Fish man
  • Erected: 1949 and 1978
  • Occasion: Completion of the new Schlosspassage (connection between Bohlweg and Münzstraße)
  • Design: Grete Krämer-Zschäbitz (1904 -) (fish man), Building Department of the City of Braunschweig (fountain with column and grid)
  • Execution:
  • Material: bronze
  • Installation site: square-like extension in the middle of the castle passage ( 52 ° 15 ′ 47 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 30 ″  E )
  • Special features: The original fish man was stolen by scrap thieves in 1965, later found in the Oker and put back in its original location. In 1976 it was stolen again and was nowhere to be found. In 1978 a newly cast figure was erected.
  • Status: in the same place

Bust of Heinrich Jasper

Jasper
  • Established: December 23, 1951
  • Occasion: Honoring Heinrich Jaspers
  • Design: Jakob Hofmann
  • Execution: Jakob Hofmann
  • Material: stone (Elmkalk)
  • Installation site: initially on the east side of the district government building (Bohlweg), since 1998 on the west side (Ruhfäutchenplatz).
  • Special features: implemented
  • Status: in the same place

Relief portrait of Ernst Böhme

Ernst Boehme

Collar bear

Collar bear

Fountain mermaid

Fountain mermaid

The mourner

The mourner

Lady Justice

Lady Justice
  • Established: 1956
  • Occasion: New building of the Braunschweig public prosecutor's office
  • Design: Bodo Kampmann (* 1913; † 1978)
  • Execution: Bodo Kampmann
  • Material: embossed copper
  • Installation site: Public Prosecutor's Office building
  • Special features: in 2013 the west and north facade of the public prosecutor's office was moved
  • Status: on the same building

Memorial for the victims of Rieseberg

Memorial to the victims of the Rieseberg murders
  • Established: July 4th, 1958
  • Occasion: Commemoration of the victims of the Rieseberg murders in 1933
  • Draft:
  • Execution:
  • Material:
  • Installation site: Braunschweig main cemetery
  • Particularities:
  • Status: in the same place

The caller

The caller

Phoenix from the ashes

Phoenix from the ashes

The human being involved in communication lines

The human being involved in communication lines
  • Established: December 20, 1960
  • Occasion:
  • Design: Karl Schubert
  • Execution: Karl Schubert
  • Material: bronze
  • Place of installation: Former Telecommunications Office Kattreppeln
  • Special features: The plastic represents the symbol of telecommunications
  • Status: Removed when the former telecommunications office was demolished in December 2010. Whereabouts unknown (probably municipal building yard).

Relief portrait of Franz Abt (1960)

Franz Abbot

Memorial "To the dead of war, tyranny, and displacement"

"The dead of war, tyranny, displacement"
  • Established: November 18, 1962
  • Occasion: Commemoration of the victims of the Second World War
  • Design: Kurt Edzard
  • Execution:
  • Material: stone
  • Place of installation: Municipal urn cemetery
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

Large pillar caryatid Braunschweig

Pillar in the Viewegs garden

The crouching one

The "crouching"
  • Established: December 20, 1967
  • Occasion:?
  • Design: Karl Paul Egon Schiffers
  • Execution: Karl Paul Egon Schiffers  ?
  • Material: bronze
  • Place of installation: Bartholomäustwete
  • Special features: At the end of October 2009, the sculpture was moved from its original location in the small park on the west side of the former public library to the new location in the Bartholomäustwete, in the immediate vicinity of the Bartholomäus chapel.
  • Status: in the same place

deer

"Deer" by Anatol Buchholtz
  • Erected: June 5, 1968
  • Occasion: unknown
  • Design: Anatol Buchholtz (born February 1, 1927 in Sensburg)
  • Execution: Anatol Buchholtz  ?
  • Material: stone
  • Installation location: Rimpaus garden
  • Particularities:
  • Status: in the same place

Relief portrait of Wilhelm Bracke

Wilhelm Bracke
  • Established: 1969
  • Occasion: Honoring Wilhelm Bracke
  • Design: Bruno Skibbe (born June 8, 1906 in Berlin; † May 21, 1975 in Braunschweig)
  • Execution: ?
  • Material: cast iron
  • Place of installation: The memorial was originally located at Schützenstrasse 17 and was moved to its current location in 1973, on the west side of the Brothers Church, where it is still located today. The new location is across from Bracke's birthplace, the Hintern Brothers 9 , which was destroyed in the Second World War.
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: still at the new location

Bugenhagen Memorial (1970)

Bugenhagen

Great flora

Great flora
  • Established: July 1970
  • Occasion:
  • Design: Emil Cimiotti
  • Execution:
  • Material:
  • Installation location: Erfurtplatz in Braunschweig- Heidberg
  • Special features: A plaque on the base bears the following inscription: "GROSSE FLORA - Emil Cimiotti - July 1970" [sic]
  • Status: in the same place

The rooster on the Petri Church

Petri Church
  • Erected: 8. – 9. October 1970
  • Occasion: Reconstruction of the church and completion of the steeple
  • Design: Bodo Kampmann (* 1913; † 1978)
  • Execution: Bodo Kampmann
  • Material: copper
  • Installation site: Spire of the Petri Church
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

Octahedral cube

Braunschweig, Kiryat Tivon Park (2) .jpg

Relief portrait of Wilhelm Raabe

Wilhelm Raabe

Plaque at the former location of the New Synagogue from 1875

Plaque
  • Erected: September 23, 1976
  • Occasion: 100th anniversary of the synagogue consecration
  • Draft: ?
  • Execution: ?
  • Material: stone
  • Place of installation: At the bunker in the "Alte Kniehauerstraße", which is on the site of the New Synagogue , which was demolished by the Nazis in 1940 .
  • Special features: "donated by the citizens of Braunschweig"
  • Status: in the same place

Class 01.10 steam locomotive

Steam locomotive 01 1063

Love for the full moon

Love for the full moon

Heinrich Kielhorn relief

Heinrich Kielhorn
  • Established: June 10, 1981
  • Occasion: Honoring Heinrich Kielhorn
  • Design: Ulrich Kasper Herzog
  • Version: unknown
  • Material: bronze
  • Installation location: at the Kielhorn School, Reichsstraße 22
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

Thuringian Venus

Thuringian Venus
  • Established: October 7, 1981
  • Occasion: -
  • Design: Gerhard Marcks
  • Version: unknown
  • Material: bronze
  • Installation location: Until 2005 in the castle park, since June 2007 in the museum park
  • Special features: created in 1930
  • Status: Removed during the leveling of the castle park in 2005 and stored in the municipal depot from 2005 to 2007; Implementation took place in the museum park

Cat bellows

Cat stele

Liberation of the human being from rigid ties and norms

Liberation of the human being from rigid ties and norms
  • Established: October 1981
  • Occasion:
  • Design: Bernd Altenstein (* 1943 in Schlossberg / East Prussia)
  • Execution: ?
  • Material: bronze
  • Installation location: originally on Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz, but now on Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße in front of the building of the former Oberpostdirektion ( 52 ° 15 ′ 41 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 14 ″  E )
  • Special features: implemented
  • Status:

Otter

Otter sculpture
  • Established: February 7, 1982
  • Occasion: unknown
  • Design: Hans-Joachim Ihle (1919–1997)
  • Execution:
  • Material: bronze
  • Installation location: In front of the entrance to the Natural History Museum
  • Particularities:
  • Status: in the same place

Guardian group

Guardian group

Descent from the Cross

Descent from the Cross
  • Established: November 10, 1983
  • Occasion: unknown
  • Design: Helmut Moos
  • Execution: -
  • Material: -
  • Place of installation: Market square in front of the Emmaus Church in Braunschweig-Weststadt
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

Untitled

Untitled

Siegfried (1988)

Siegfried

Lion heads on the Burgplatz

Lion heads
  • Erected: in the 1980s
  • Occasion: unknown
  • Design: apprentice stone sculptors
  • Execution: as draft
  • Material: limestone
  • Installation site: Burgplatz, on the north side of the Braunschweig Cathedral ( 52 ° 15 ′ 52 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 26 ″  E )
  • Special features: journeyman's pieces from the Königslutter stonemasonry school. 14 different motifs, substructure for benches.
  • Status: in the same place

The chair

The chair
  • Established: 1990
  • Occasion: 2nd Braunschweig Sculpture Symposium
  • Design: Martina Benz
  • Execution: Braunschweig University of Fine Arts
  • Material: natural stone, roughly hewn
  • Installation site: In Westpark , near the district sports facility.
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

The great refusal

The great refusal

Deserters Monument

Memorial plaque for the stolen deserters memorial
  • Established: September 1, 1994
  • Occasion: Honoring German deserters in World War II
  • Design: unknown
  • Version: unknown
  • Material: stone
  • Installation site: West side of the Magni Church ( 52 ° 15 ′ 45 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 47 ″  E )
  • Special features: The actual deserter monument was initially damaged several times and then stolen. In its place there is therefore a stone slab with the following inscription: “From September 1st, 1994 to January 1st, 1995, there was a deserter monument. After two attempts to destroy it, it was stolen on New Year's morning. / So you have disappeared, / but not forgotten, / clubbed down, / but not refuted - / together with everyone / unteachable / on the truth / persistent / us reminder / and example. / after Bertolt Brecht "
  • Status: stolen

Epitaph I.

Epitaph I.
  • Established: 1995
  • Occasion: In memory of people who died of AIDS .
  • Design: Tom Fecht
  • Execution: Tom Fecht
  • Material: stone
  • Place of installation: south side of the Martinikirche .
  • Special features: The installation is part of Fecht's project “Mémoire nomade” (“nomadic memory”), which in turn is part of the project “Thinking Space: NAMES and STONES” of the German AIDS Foundation Bonn .
  • Status: in the same place

Pair of figures

Pair of figures
  • Established: 1995
  • Occasion: -
  • Design: Andreas Krämmer
  • Execution: -
  • Material: -
  • Installation location: Peenestrasse in Braunschweig-Weststadt
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

Dionysus

Dionysus statue

Brunswick Venus

Brunswick Venus
  • Established: 1998
  • Occasion:
  • Design: Prof. Jürgen Weber
  • Execution: Prof. Jürgen Weber
  • Material: bronze
  • Installation site: Am Wendentor, next to Torhaus Wendentor ( 52 ° 16 ′ 20 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 29 ″  E )
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

21st century

Arch of Remembrance (Plessi Arch)

Plessibogen in the evening
  • Established: 2000
  • Occasion: Lichtparcours 2000
  • Design: Fabrizio Plessi
  • Execution: Gerhard Auer (implementation planning)
  • Material: weatherproof structural steel
  • Installation site: Europaplatz, Kalenwall ( 52 ° 15 ′ 33 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 2 ″  E )
  • Special features: The inaccessible bridge is supposed to awaken memories of the station bridge that once stood here. A video installation with 17 TV monitors was installed on the underside, which could only be seen from the Oker . In 2008 this installation was replaced by blue LED lighting.
  • Status: in the same place.

Memorial Cemetery Hochstrasse

Hochstrasse Memorial
  • Erected: May 2001
  • Occasion: Commemoration of the killed prisoners of war, forced laborers and babies from Poland.
  • Design: Reinhard Coppenrath (D), Andrzej Solyga (PL), Marcin Roszczyk (PL).
  • Version: unknown
  • Material: bronze
  • Place of installation: Memorial Cemetery Hochstrasse
  • Special features: joint work by Polish and German artists
  • Status: in the same place

Relief portrait of Samuel Hahnemann

Samuel Hahnemann
  • Established: 2003
  • Occasion: In memory of Samuel Hahnemann's time in Braunschweig 1795–1796
  • Design: Magnus Kleine-Tebbe
  • Version: unknown
  • Material:?
  • Installation site: Stecherstraße, at the location of the former Homeopathic Central Pharmacy
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

Laodicea

Laodicea
  • Established: 2000?
  • Occasion: -
  • Design: Magnus Kleine-Tebbe
  • Execution: Magnus Kleine-Tebbe
  • Material: marble
  • Installation site: Technical University of Braunschweig, Pockelsstraße 11
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

The Elster flea market

Elster flea market

ZIKZAK

ZIKZAK
  • Established: 2004
  • Occasion: Braunschweig Parcours 2004
  • Design: Pedro Reyes
  • Execution: Pedro Reyes
  • Material: wood
  • Installation site: On the bank of the Oker at the Am Wendentor bridge in an easterly direction out of town.
  • Special features: half-timbered construction that served as a boat dock on the Oker and was also a viewing platform. According to the contract, the tower was supposed to remain in place until 2008, but was not dismantled until the beginning of 2011.
  • Status: dismantled in early 2011

Khachkar

Khachkar
  • Established: April 24, 2005
  • Occasion: Commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire .
  • Design: unknown
  • Version: unknown
  • Material: stone
  • Place of installation: East side of the Brothers Church
  • Special features: Next to the stone, on the right and left, there are two smaller columns with explanatory texts about the Khachkar and the occasion of the installation.
  • Status: in the same place

Stumbling blocks

Stumbling blocks

Asparagus

Asparagus
  • Established: 2005
  • Occasion: unknown
  • Design: Ina Otto
  • Execution: Ina Otto
  • Material: ceramic, filled with concrete
  • Installation location: in front of the Torhaus Humboldtstraße 34, gallery building of the BBK ( 52 ° 16 ′ 12 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 0 ″  E )
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

Lion heads on the cathedral square

Lion on the cathedral square
  • Established: 2006/2007
  • Occasion: unknown
  • Design: Matthias Scheibner
  • Execution: Matthias Scheibner (owner of Naturstein Zerries)
  • Material: Thuringian travertine
  • Installation site: Domplatz, on the south side of the Brunswick Cathedral ( 52 ° 15 ′ 51 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 26 ″  E )
  • Special features: eleven different motifs, substructure for 5 benches
  • Status: in the same place

2000 years of Christianity

2000 years of Christianity

Anniversary stele Melverode

Anniversary stele
  • Established: July 14, 2007
  • Occasion: 1000th anniversary of the Melverode community
  • Design: Magnus Kleine-Tebbe
  • Execution: Magnus Kleine-Tebbe
  • Material: sandstone
  • Place of installation: Church square of the Nicolaikirche in Melverode
  • Particularities:
  • Status: in the same place

Jakob AT

Jakob AT
  • Erected: August 2009
  • Occasion: The artist's work show in the Jakob-Kemenate, St. Martini Church and in the district court
  • Design: Magnus Kleine-Tebbe
  • Execution: Magnus Kleine-Tebbe
  • Material: stone
  • Installation site: southwest side of the Martini church .
  • Particularities:
  • Status: in the same place

Samson skyward

Samson skyward
  • Erected: August 2009
  • Occasion: The artist's work show in the Jakob-Kemenate, St. Martini Church and in the district court
  • Design: Magnus Kleine-Tebbe
  • Execution: Magnus Kleine-Tebbe
  • Material: stone
  • Place of installation: south side of the Martinikirche .
  • Particularities:
  • Status: in the same place

Wall memorial

Wall memorial
  • Erected: November 9, 2009
  • Occasion: 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
  • Draft:
  • Execution:
  • Material: concrete
  • Installation site: "Platz der Deutschen Einheit" (south side)
  • Special features: The original piece of the Berlin Wall is a gift from Axel Springer Verlag to the city of Braunschweig on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall (plaque on the back of the monument). On October 1, 2010, on the 20th anniversary of German reunification on October 3, 2010, the day of German unity , the Wall Memorial was supplemented by a stone commemorative plaque. It contains a quote from the address given by the then German President Richard von Weizsäcker on the occasion of the state ceremony on the occasion of the Day of German Unity on October 3, 1990.
  • Status: in the same place

Memorial plaque for the book burning on May 10, 1933

Memorial plaque for the book burning on May 10, 1933
  • Erected: June 23, 2010
  • Occasion: Commemoration of the book burnings on May 10, 1933 in Braunschweig
  • Design: Schroers advertising agency, Braunschweig
  • Execution: sign point, Braunschweig
  • Material: cast bronze
  • Installation site: On the Schlossplatz , between the equestrian statues. Roughly at the point where the book burning took place in 1933.
  • Special features: On the board there is the quote from Heinrich Heine's tragedy Almansor : "That was just a prelude, where you burn books, you burn people in the end."
  • Status: in the same place

Wayside shrine Christophorus

Wayside shrine "Christophorus"
  • Erected: April 9, 2012
  • Occasion:
  • Draft:
  • Execution: Günther Dittmann
  • Material: Deister limestone
  • Installation location: Pepperstieg / Karl-Hintze-Weg
  • Special features: based on a woodcut from 1948 by Prof. Joachim Dunkel
  • Status: in the same place

The tower keeper

The tower keeper
  • Erected: July 26, 2014
  • Occasion:
  • Design: Klaus Stümpel (1941–2015)
  • Execution:
  • Material: bronze
  • Installation site: on the pressure tower of the former river waterworks in the Bürgerpark
  • Particularities:
  • Status: in the same place

Solus Christ

Solus Christ
  • Erected: October 2014
  • Occasion: 500 years of the Reformation
  • Design: Magnus Kleine-Tebbe
  • Execution: Magnus Kleine-Tebbe
  • Material: stone
  • Installation site: north side of the Bienroder lake .
  • Particularities:
  • Status: in the same place

The gray bus

The gray bus in front of the castle
  • Erected: May 21, 2015
  • Occasion: 75th anniversary of the start of “ Aktion T4 ”, the systematic “ destruction of life unworthy of life ” by the National Socialists, what they called “ euthanasia ”.
  • Design: Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz
  • Execution:
  • Material: concrete
  • Installation site: Schlossplatz in front of the Braunschweig Castle on Bohlweg
  • Special features: It is a “temporary monument” that can be dismantled, walked on and seen until September 23, 2015 in Braunschweig. An accompanying exhibition was held in the “Schlosscarree”. The memorial was then transported to Winnenden , the next installation site.
  • Status: dismantled

So far without a chronological classification

Memorial plaque for Henning Brabandt

Memorial plaque for Henning Brabandt
  • Established: unknown
  • Occasion: Remembrance of the execution of Henning Brabandt on the Hagenmarkt on September 17, 1604
  • Design: unknown
  • Version: unknown
  • Material: metal
  • Installation site: northwest side of the Hagenmarkt.
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

Memorial stone for those who died in the war of 1870/71

  • Built:
  • Occasion: honoring the fallen
  • Design: unknown
  • Version: unknown
  • Material: stone
  • Installation site: in front of the "Heinrich der Löwe" infantry barracks on Hagenmarkt
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: whereabouts unknown

Memorial stone for the opera house on Hagenmarkt

Memorial stone for the opera house on Hagenmarkt
  • Established: unknown
  • Occasion: Memory of the opera house on Hagenmarkt
  • Design: unknown
  • Version: unknown
  • Material: stone
  • Place of installation: southeast side of the Hagenmarkt.
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

Memorial plaque for victims of the SA in the AOK building in 1933

Memorial plaque for victims of the SA in the AOK building in 1933
  • Established: unknown
  • Occasion: Commemoration of the victims of National Socialist persecution (here by the SA ), especially in 1933.
  • Design: unknown
  • Version: unknown
  • Material: stone
  • Installation location: On the footpath in front of the AOK building, Am Fallersleber Tor 3–4
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

stele

unknown work of art (?)
  • Established: 1980s
  • Occasion: Art in Architecture (formerly the State Central Bank)
  • Design: Gottfried Honegger (1917–2016), Zurich-CH
  • Execution: ?
  • Material: stainless steel
  • Installation site: Lindentwete, corner of Schützenstraße ( 52 ° 15 ′ 53.8 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 6.4 ″  E )
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: in the same place

Dancing children

Dancing children

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Ulrich Hucker suspects that it could be a depiction of Otto from an unfinished tomb for him. See: Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum - Lower Saxony State Museums Braunschweig (ed.): Otto IV. Dream of the Guelph Empire . Petersberg 2009, p. 289ff.
  2. ^ Project Gutenberg-DE: How Eulenspiegel hired a bread baker in Braunschweig as a journeyman baker and how he baked owls and monkeys.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 1.1 .: City of Braunschweig , part 1, p. 202.
  4. ↑ Ralf Busch (Red.): To commemorate the former Jewish community of Braunschweig , In: Publications of the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum , issue 11, Braunschweig 1977, p. 3
  5. ↑ Braunschweiger Dampflokdenkmal ( Memento of the original from November 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eisenbahngeschichte-bs.de
  6. ^ Braunschweiger Eisenbahngeschichte ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eisenbahngeschichte-bs.de
  7. ↑ BMVBS-Online-Publication , No. 25/2012: Short documentation of 200 art-in-building works on behalf of the federal government since 1950 , p. 369f.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bbsr.bund.de  
  8. ↑ Monuments as an ornament of the city , In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of October 8, 2003
  9. ↑ Dietmar Zimmerling, Lutz Pape: Braunschweig - views, insights, prospects. P. 21.
  10. ^ Braunschweig Parcours 2004 with 12 projects by international artists. ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release of the city of Braunschweig from June 24, 2004. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / braunschweig2010.com
  11. ↑ Half-timbered work of art "Zikzak" is being dismantled. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung. January 14, 2011.
  12. ^ Works in public space on the artist's website
  13. ^ Works in public space on the artist's website
  14. ↑ Unveiled memorial plaque for the book burning. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung. June 23, 2010.
  15. ↑ Almansor (1823), verse 243, cited above. according to: DHA, Vol. 5, p. 16.
  16. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landeskirche-braunschweig.de
  17. ^ Official website Grauer Bus Braunschweig
  18. ↑ Download the panels from the Braunschweig exhibition.

literature

  • Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 .
  • Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon - supplementary volume. Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 .
  • Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories. Volume 1: Inner City. Cremlingen 1995.
  • Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories. Volume 2: Okergraben and city ring. Cremlingen 1996.
  • Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories. Volume 3: Outside the city ring. Braunschweig 2001.
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 8th to 18th centuries. Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 .
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 .
  • Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 1.1 .: City of Braunschweig. Part 1, Hameln 1993, ISBN 3-87585-252-4 .
  • Hermann Kindt: Georg Howaldt and his workshop. In: Braunschweiger Calendar 1957. Braunschweig 1956, pp. 35–40.
  • Peter Lufft : Braunschweig's sculptures in the cityscape since 1945. Culture reports No. 6, Culture Office of the City of Braunschweig, Braunschweig 1989.
  • Götz Mavius: Monuments in the city of Braunschweig in the 19th century. In: Braunschweig City Archives and City Library. Small fonts. No. 7, Braunschweig 1981.
  • Ernst-August Roloff : remembering - mourning - suppressing? In: City Archives and Public Library Braunschweig. Small fonts. No. 33, Braunschweig 1998.

Web links

Commons : Monuments and still pictures in Braunschweig  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
This version was included in the selection of informative lists and portals on June 3, 2006 .