War memorial (Kötzschenbroda)

The war memorial at the east end of Angers Altkötzschenbroda is in the Kötzschenbroda district of the Saxon city of Radebeul . The memorial for those who died in the First World War stands in front of the entrance to the Friedenskirche . It is a cultural monument .

War memorial in Kötzschenbroda

description

The sandstone memorial, erected in 1925, was designed by the local sculptor Alfred Lehmann. A sarcophagus-like monument stands on a rectangular base plate and block steps above , on which there is a flat triangular gable above a cornice .

On the northern front there is a relief of a wreath of oak leaves around an iron cross . Above is the inscription

"FOR US - TRUE TO DEATH"

and on the side the years "1914" and "1918". On the back are the names of the fallen from Kötzschenbroda in front of the incorporations.

literature

• Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 .

Web links

Commons : War Memorial  - Collection of Images

• Name copy. In: Online project fallen memorials.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 2 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been part of the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 15.3 "  N , 13 ° 38 ′ 2.2"  E