Grünewalde war memorial
The Grünewalde war memorial is a listed war memorial in the Grünewalde district of the town of Schönebeck (Elbe) in Saxony-Anhalt .
It is located in the northern part of the Grünewalde cemetery.
Design and history
The memorial was erected for ten named victims of the First World War .
It consists of a cuboid resting on a small base. There are inscriptions on the four sides of the cuboid commemorating the fallen and naming them.
In the local register of monuments , the war memorial is listed as a small memorial under registration number 094 98307 .
Inscriptions
On the south side, below the depiction of an iron cross framed by oak leaves, there is the inscription:
In memory of those
who died for us
On the east side, the names and dates of death of the fallen are given:
Luis Schramme October 4th, 2014
Willy Mänecke May 21st, 2015
Gustav Stiehle June 13th, 2015
Ernst Heidecke October 10th, 2015
Hermann Meyer verm
The north side bears the year numbers as an inscription:
1914 1918
between which there is an image of an iron cross.
The west side shows the names and dates of five other fallen:
Richard Fricke 18.8.16
Richard Becker 20.10.16
Fritz Schmielau 16.4.18
Franz Meyer 8.8.18
Rudolf Wade 7.10.16
A little further to the south-west is a memorial stele in the cemetery, which also commemorates the fallen of the Second World War by name.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , page 3780
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 48.5 ″ N , 11 ° 44 ′ 48.3 ″ E