War memorial Frankfurt Rohmerplatz
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The war memorial Frankfurt Rohmerplatz is a memorial ( war memorial ) in Frankfurt am Main . It commemorates the 1,200 soldiers who died in the First World War from its western district of Bockenheim . The memorial was erected in 1925 on Rohmerplatz in the middle of a green area south of Leipziger Strasse .
Inscriptions
- at the front of the base
- "In memory of the 1,200 brave Bockenheimer heroes who died in the field of honor for the fatherland 1914–1918."
- at the back of the base
- "Erected by the Bockenheim Warrior Association on the occasion of its fifty-year foundation festival, donated by the grateful residents of Bockenheim."
Representation and Creator
The sculpture depicts a kneeling warrior who is supporting the shield on the ground with his left hand. The Frankfurt sculptor Oskar Ufert (1876–1952), member of the Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft , created this monument on behalf of the Bockenheim Warrior Association .
Client
As everywhere in the new German Empire , a war club was founded in the city of Bockenheim in 1875. In the year it was founded, the association erected a war memorial for three Bockenheim citizens who died in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 on what was then the cemetery on Rödelheimer Sandweg (today the Old Bockenheim Cemetery on Solmsstraße, which was renamed ) .
Soon the Bockenheim Warrior Association became part of the Kyffhäuserbund , which developed into one of the largest number of members in the German Empire (1913: 2.8 million members). The city of Frankfurt am Main has a wreath laid here on the day of national mourning.
literature
- Municipal files of the city of Frankfurt am Main, 1913–1928. Az.1008 / 4, ISG Institute for Urban History
Individual evidence
- ^ Bockenheimer Strasse telling, Association for Local History, pro literatur Verlag Mammendorf 2006, ISBN 3866111525 , page 169
- ↑ https://www.fr.de/rhein-main/die-linke-org26318/linke-kriegsgraeberfuersorge-11593335.html
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 17 " N , 8 ° 38 ′ 43" E