Miltern War Memorial

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Miltern War Memorial

The Miltern war memorial is a listed war memorial in the village of Miltern in the city of Tangermünde in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located immediately west of Dorfstraße at the address Dorfstraße 48 in the churchyard of the Miltern village church .

Design and history

The war memorial was inaugurated on October 11, 1919, according to other information in 1920, and was erected in memory of the citizens of Miltern who died in the First World War . There was a large relief depicting Saint George facing the street . The relief, made of sandstone , showed George riding a horse and killing a dragon with a spear . At the end of the Second World War , Walter Berth and another resident from Miltern, Werner Behrendt from Bindfelde , were in the run-up to the arrival of US troopsand Otto Behrendt from Tangermünde destroyed the relief. Other data indicate the period after 1945 as the period of destruction. The figure of Saint George was chiseled out together with the sword and spear. Today only outlines and fragments can be seen. At the same time, the original inscription probably also disappeared. The head of St. George was hidden by Elfriede Behrendt in her house in the attic. After the political change in 1989 , she is said to have taken her head to West Germany. According to other sources, the head was found on a piece of land and taken away by the former West German owner.

At the top of the monument facing the street, an image of an iron cross can be seen. In the lower area there is a plaque with the inscription:

Fallen of World War 1

Ernst Brandt Richard Danker Fritz Henning
† October 4th, 1914 † September 6, 1915 † August 11, 1918
Richard Brandt Walter Goernemann Friedrich Bielang
† October 19th, 1914 † May 14, 1917 † August 11, 1918
Emil Herms Hermann Rulf Otto Dobbelin
† March 10, 1915 † May 15, 1917 † September 26th, 1918
Bruno Goernemann Fritz Eggert Otto practice
† June 29, 1915 † March 28, 1918 † October 5th, 1918
Wilhelm Spring
† April 11, 1918

In the church to the northwest of the memorial there are other memorial plaques commemorating those who participated in the war and those who died in different wars.

In local monument directory the war memorial is below the detection number 094 76715 as a small monument listed.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Heinz Broszei: Chronicle of the community Miltern: from 1200 to 2000.Block -Verlag, Kremkau 2002, ISBN 3-934988-22-9 , p. 49.
  2. ↑ a b c Miltern, City of Tangermünde, District of Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt. on www.denkmalprojekt.org
  3. ↑ Heinz Broszei names him in the chronicle of the community Miltern as the brother of Giesela Görnemann
  4. ↑ 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. P. 4264.

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '29.3 "  N , 11 ° 55' 57.7"  E