Liegau-Augustusbad war memorial
The war memorial in the Liegau-Augustusbad district of Radeberg commemorates the victims of the First and Second World Wars . The facility is located on the main road below the local primary school and is a listed building.
execution
The memorial is made of Grünberger granite and shows in the middle the relief of a kneeling naked warrior who is leaning on his sword. To the left and right of the image there are 15 names of missing or fallen soldiers from the village from the First World War. The base of the monument bears the inscription:
In honor of those who fell in the World War 1914–18
The grateful Liegau community
The design comes from the Dresden architect Kolb, the production took place in Blasewitz .
A memorial plaque for the victims of the Second World War was placed underneath in 2005:
In memory of / in the Second World War / fallen and / missing persons
Behind the war memorial, a gabion wall serves as a retaining wall on the embankment. In front of the monument, a rectangular space is delimited with a small railing, a plant bed has been created in the middle, and two stone benches were built. A staircase leads from the main street to the memorial, which is flanked by a granite wall on which there are two stone spherical tops.
history
On June 24, 1923, the war memorial was unveiled in what was then the school garden and was given by the superintendent Dr. Heber consecrated to commemorate the soldiers from Liegau-Augustusbad who died in the First World War. In the course of the following decades the town center was structurally altered several times, which led to the fact that, among other things, the stairs to the memorial and the walls with the granite balls disappeared and ultimately only the memorial stone and the rectangular open space in front of it were left.
On the initiative of the Liegau-Augustusbad Heimatverein, a granite slab was attached to the memorial on April 30, 2005 in order to also commemorate the victims of the Second World War on the memorial. During the official inauguration of the plaque, the names of the Liegauer victims were read out.
In 2013 the entire monument complex was restored as part of the renovation of the town center. In addition to the repair of the memorial and the area in front of the memorial, the historic staircase to the memorial and the walls surrounding the complex including the spherical attachments were rebuilt. At the same time, the staircase to the school, which runs right next to the boundary wall of the monument, was rebuilt.
On November 17, 2013, the day of national mourning , the renovated monument was inaugurated as part of the official Radeberg memorial event. Gabor Kühnapfel, Mayor of Liegau-Augustusbad, Mayor of Radeberg Gerhard Lemm and Frank-Peter Wieth, chairman of the CDU city council, took part in the laying of the wreath.
Web links
- The war memorial on the site of the Liegau-Augustusbad Heimatverein (with pictures of the restoration and a historical photo).
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of cultural monuments of the city of Radeberg, Liegau-Augustusbad section - entered under Hauptstrasse. (PDF; 113 kB) Retrieved November 18, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c Look around town and country . In: Radeberger Zeitung, edition of June 23, 1923
- ↑ a b War memorial in Liegau-Augustusbad ceremoniously inaugurated. (No longer available online.) Schubert planning office, November 2013, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 18, 2014 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hans Reinecke: Memorial to those who fell in World War I in the Liegau community. Deutsche Fotothek, May 1996, accessed on November 18, 2014 .
- ↑ The plaque is attached to the war memorial. In: Sächsische Zeitung , edition of April 30, 2005.
- ↑ Memorial hour this time in Liegau. In: Sächsische Zeitung , edition of November 7, 2013.
- ↑ Bernd Goldammer: Pointing to the National Day of Mourning. In: Sächsische Zeitung , edition of November 18, 2013.
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 11.5 " N , 13 ° 53 ′ 59.3" E