War memorial (Altusried)
The war memorial in Altusried commemorates the 302 soldiers who died there in the First and Second World Wars . It's next to the church near the cemetery.
General
The war memorial in Altusried was erected in 1932 in memory of the 86 Altusried people who died or went missing in World War I. The sculptor Josef Mayer, born in Altusried, was responsible for the design and execution. He had already executed several monuments in the vicinity. The war memorial is made of Treuchtlinger marble , which was a very popular stone for monument construction at the time. It bears the inscription "I am the resurrection and the life" and shows a dying warrior looking up to the resurrected Christ . On the side there are 2 marble tablets with the names of 86 fallen and missing warriors. It was financed by the Andreas Hofer Festival, which was staged on the Altusried open-air stage in 1931, and was financially supported by the then Mayor Weizenegger.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Pictures of death. A study on the German war memorial in the Weimar Republic using the example of the Pieta motif, p. 159 online
- ↑ Altusried open-air theater: The fight for freedom as a tradition. ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2012 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. In: altusried.de (accessed on May 26, 2013)
