War memorial on Bahnsdorfer Berg

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The war memorial on Bahnsdorfer Berg in 2007

The war memorial on Bahnsdorfer Berg is located on today's federal highway 101 a little north of the southern Brandenburg towns of Wiederau and Bahnsdorf .

On September 6, 1908, the massive memorial, designed with a cave-like interior and provided with inscriptions, was inaugurated with great sympathy by the rural population of the communities. The members of the war club Wiederau-Bahnsdorf-Neudeck , in which the participants of the unification wars of 1864, 1866 and 1870/71 from the three villages, collected the money needed to commemorate the fallen. Major Lettre, then lord of Neudeck, played a decisive role here. The inscription on the north side named the fallen from Wiederau and Bahnsdorf. The main difference between the memorial and the majority of memorials erected at the time is its unusual construction as a vantage point on today's federal highway 101. The 107 meter high Bahnsdorf mountain was only about one meter high overgrown at the time, so that from here you could see the Hartenfels Castle near Torgau , the Herzberg town church or the briquette factories in Domsdorf and Wildgrube .

In 1993 the old war memorial was placed under protection and is on the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg. In June 2001 the site of the monument was measured and the monument was given its own parcel. Shortly afterwards it was transferred to the Federal Property Office. Before that it was owned by the Brandenburg Road Construction Office in Cottbus . At the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007, the entire monument, which is now in great danger of collapsing, was measured and examined by a Cottbus architecture firm in order to create drawings for its restoration.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  2. ↑ Rescue for Bahnsdorf war memorial in sight? , Lausitzer Rundschau , regional edition Herzberg (Elster) , 4th January 2007
  3. ^ "Amt Falkenberg / Uebigau with its communities" . 1st edition. Stadtbuchverlag W + I GmbH and Co.KG Zeuthen, 1996, p. 12 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 49.9 "  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 49.2"  E