War memorial (Windsbach)
The war memorial in Windsbach , a town in the Central Franconian district of Ansbach ( Bavaria ), commemorates those who died in the First World War . The war memorial north of the city is a protected architectural monument .
The war memorial on the hillside terraces was erected in 1922 based on a design by Walter Franke. The memorial with reliefs and risalits crowned by figures is provided with the following inscription: “To the heroes of the World War 1914/18 in gratitude / the bereaved for consolation / the present and future / gender for teaching and imitation / German loyalty / dedicated / by the city of Windsbach / the communities Elpersdorf Ismannsdorf / Neuses Retzdendorf and Sauernheim / God is our confidence! "
literature
- Katharina Weigand: Between war memorials and Heimatstil - monument setting and monument preservation in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich . In: Egon Johannes Greipl (Ed.): 100 Years of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. 1908-2008. 4 volumes. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2008, Volume 1: Balance, ISBN 978-3-7917-2119-4 , p. 179.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′ 2.1 ″ N , 10 ° 49 ′ 39 ″ E