War memorial Calvörde
The listed war memorial in Calvörde is located on the Calvörde cemetery and is on Velsdorfer Straße.
description
The planning and design of the war memorial was based on ancient architecture. The memorial has a monumental sarcophagus in the shape of a temple and has three half-columns on each side . The monument is made entirely of sandstone and has a base and a gable with a relief. The inscription on the portal side reads:
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history
The memorial in the cemetery was erected for those who fell in the First World War in 1922, the design comes from Professor Lüpke from Braunschweig . The land on which it was built belonged to the political community and was given to the church . The war memorial was handed over to the church by the mayor of the church when it was inaugurated. During restoration work in the 2000s, the names of the fallen were clearly written in gold.
literature
- Mathias Köhler: Ohrekreis (I) (= List of Monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 10.1). Imhof, Petersberg 2005, page 67
- Rudi Fischer - 800 years of Calvörde, a chronicle until 1991, history of the church buildings in the Protestant Lutheran church play Calvörde (Hille, Knauf - 1936/1988/1955) - 3. The cemetery chapel in Calvörde, page 85
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 46.2 " N , 11 ° 17 ′ 20.9" E