List of monuments, fountains and sculptures in Aachen
In this list of the monuments, fountains, sculptures and sculptures of the city of Aachen are listed monuments and memorials, fountains, special sculptures and sculptures as well as special works of art that are in the publicly accessible space. However, the list does not contain any residential and commercial buildings or ground monuments that are classified as monuments in the list of architectural monuments in Aachen , but some of the objects listed here are also part of the list of monuments of the city of Aachen. The memories of deported and murdered citizens of Aachen in the Third Reich are summarized in the list of stumbling blocks in Aachen .
Monuments
Personal monuments
designation | place | Construction year | Artist | Characteristic | image |
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Alfred von Reumont monument | next to Ponttor (since 1952), Aachen | 1910 | Franz Linden | in memory of the honorary citizen of the city of Aachen, therein a relief depicting Romulus and Remus and the she-wolf feeding them; Monument protection | |
Bismarck Tower (Aachen) | Waldfriedhof Aachen | 1907 | Georg Frentzen | in memory of Otto von Bismarck , built in the form of a stylized "B"; decorated with busts of Otto von Bismarck, Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke and Albrecht von Roon ; Monument protection | |
David Hansemann Memorial | Hansemannplatz / Monheimsallee, Aachen | 1888 | Heinz Hoffmeister | in memory of Hansemann's work in Aachen; Bronze, monument protection | |
Franziska Schervier monument | Jakobstrasse, Aachen | 1976 | Hubert Loneke | Order founder Franziska Schervier as a nun with a beggar, engaged in the care of the cholera sufferers, bronze | |
Franz Oppenhoff monument - memorial against intolerance | Oppenhoff-Allee, Aachen | 1985 | Ernst Wille on behalf of the city of Aachen | dedicated to the mayor of Aachen, Franz Oppenhoff, who was murdered by a werewolf squad ; Stone steles with inscription | |
Gregor von Burtscheid statue | in front of St. Michael (Aachen-Burtscheid) | 1963 | Boniface Stirnberg | 1st Abbot of Burtscheid (around 935–999), founder of the Imperial Burtscheid Abbey , bronze statue | |
Heinrich II monument | at St. Adalbert Aachen with a view towards Adalbertstrasse | 1903 | Wilhelm Pohl | monumental seated figure for the founder of the church | |
Hermann Heusch bust | Hermann-Heusch-Platz, Aachen | in memory of the long-time Lord Mayor of Aachen | |||
John F. Kennedy bust | Kennedypark Aachen, near the pillars of the former Yellow Barracks | 1966 | Hubert Loneke | Name giver for a district park, bronze | |
Kaiser Friedrich Monument | Kaiserplatz, Aachen | 1911 | Hugo Lederer | dedicated to the German Emperor Friedrich III. ; one of the stone lions has been at the entrance to the Burtscheider Ferberpark since 1960 ; Bronze, monument protection | |
Lenné monument | Monheimsallee, Aachen | 1896 | Karl Krauss | dedicated to the landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenné , who also works in Aachen ; Monument protection | |
St. Stephen | Munsterplatz at the Hungarian Chapel of Aachen Cathedral | 1993 | Imre Varga | donated by Hungarian pilgrims at the Aachen Pilgrimage of 1993. bronze figure represents the Hungarian king and national saint Stephen I represent |
Warrior and event memorials
designation | place | Construction year | Artist | Characteristic | image |
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Memorial in the Marienturm | Ludwigsallee, Aachen | 1933/1955 | Matthias Corr (sarcophagus) | Tower of the outer city wall ; Memorial for the victims of both world wars; Monument protection | |
Fallen memorial Aachen- Brand | Near Hochstraße, Aachen-Brand | Double monument for the fallen of the First ( conglomerate stones ) and Second World War ( basalt stone ) | |||
War memorial (Eilendorf) | Marienstrasse near St. Severin (Aachen-Eilendorf) | 1927 | Fritz Neumann (sculpture St. Sebastian ) | in memory of the fallen of the First World War | |
Fallen memorial Aachen- Haaren | Alt-Haarener Strasse, Aachen-Haaren | in memory of the fallen of the First World War | |||
Fallen memorial Kornelimünster | Dorffer Strasse, Aachen-Kornelimünster | in memory of the fallen in both world wars | |||
Monument to the fallen in Aachen- Laurensberg | to the side of the staircase to St. Laurentius , Aachen-Laurensberg | in memory of the victims of both world wars | |||
Fallen memorial Oberforstbach | Oberforstbaacher Strasse 290, Aachen-Oberforstbach | "Peace to people who are of good will. Our fallen and missing 1914–1918 + 1939–1945. In grateful memory, the citizens of Oberforstbach" | |||
Monument to the fallen of Rothe Erde | Barbarastraße, Aachen-Rothe-Erde | in memory of the victims of both world wars | |||
Verlautenheide monument to the fallen | Heider-Hof-Weg, Aachen-Verlautenheide | in memory of the victims of both world wars | |||
Monument to the fallen of Walheim | Albert-Einstein-Strasse, Aachen-Walheim | 1921 | to commemorate the dead of both world wars and the members of the fire brigade | ||
Congress monument | City Garden Aachen ; until 1914 Adalbertsteinweg | 1822 | Johann Peter Cremer | in memory of the Aachen Monarchs Congress in 1818 , subsequently revised by Cremers and Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1837 ; Monument protection | |
Kristallnachtdenkmal | Synagogenplatz, Aachen | 1984 | Heinz Tobolla | Kristallberg in the form of a Star of David , in memory of the November pogroms in 1938 | |
memorial | Schmithof, Aachen | 1972 | Rita Landvogt, Aachen | Granite stele with slabs of baked clay |
Fountain
designation | place | Construction year | Artist | Characteristic | image |
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Aesculapian Fountain | Entrance hall of the Elisabethhalle Aachen | around 1910 | Carl Burger | Inscription: The magic of Jungbrunnen is not a mere legend, the bathroom gives the bathroom a magical freshness every day | |
Augustinerplatz fountain | Augustinerplatz, Aachen | 1971 | Elmar Hillebrand and architecture students (stele); | The Third World theme is presented on the stele | |
Bathing women | Small swimming pool in the Elisabethhalle Aachen | around 1910 | Fritz Klimsch | Made in the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin | |
Eilendorf well system | Steinstrasse, Aachen-Eilendorf | 1988 | Wolfgang Binding (bronze sculpture cow boy with cow) | Donated by Volksbank Eilendorf on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Eilendorf | |
Elsassplatz fountain | Elsassplatz, Aachen | 1978 | Benno Werth | Fountain system with bronze stele | |
Monheimsallee fountain system | Monheimsallee in front of the Aachen casino | 1852/53 | Peter Joseph Lenné | Part of the Aachen spa gardens ; in the style of an English landscape garden | |
Fountain at St. Germanus | Germanusstrasse, Aachen-Haaren | 2000 | Berta Kals | Fountain made of green-colored gray cast iron with dragon heads and Flemish motifs | |
Couven wall fountain | Abbey place, Burtscheid | 1737 | Jacob Couven | originally garden fountain of the wasp house ; Monument protection | |
Bahkauv (brook calf) | Büchel, Aachen | 1967 | Kurt-Wolf von Borries | Aachen legend figure, new production, bronze; First made in 1904 by Karl Krauss | |
Elisenbrunnen | Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz, Aachen | 1822 (laying of the foundation stone); 1827 (inauguration) | Johann Peter Cremer and Karl Friedrich Schinkel | dedicated to Crown Princess Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria ; Drinking water wells; Monument protection | |
Europaplatz | Europaplatz roundabout | 1957/58 | Planning and execution by Derichs & Konertz | illuminated at night | |
Fish poodle | Fish market, Aachen | 1911 (first casting); 1954 (Neuguss) | Hugo Lederer | "Fischjunge", created in 1954 by Heinrich Clemens Dick based on original templates, bronze | |
Fountain of peace | Königsberger Strasse, Aachen, in front of the Christ our Peace parish center | 1980 | Boniface Stirnberg | Bronze, spiral-shaped mussel shells. Lettering "Friede" in numerous languages | |
Fountain of peace | Theaterstrasse , Aachen | 1991 | Manfred Bredohl and artist of the World Blacksmiths Congress | stands for friendship that unites people and the will to live in harmony with nature; Structural steel | |
Large Deliusviertel fountain | Kuckhoffstrasse, Aachen | 1993 | Benno Werth | Well system with watercourse, past pagoda-like bronze buildings, water features, sluices and water wheels; Counterpart to the small fountain system 100 m away | |
Hotmanspiif | Junction Hotmannpiif, Aachen | 1825 (Obelisk); 1830 (figures) | Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel | Renovated in 2008; Obelisk from Blaustein , figures in gilded cast iron, drinking fountain, monument | |
Chicken thief | Chicken market, Aachen | 1913 (first casting); 1953 (Neuguss) | Hermann Joachim Pagels | A copy is in the park of Schloss Köpenick ; Chick wreath is still original from 1913, bronze, monument protection | |
Hubertus Fountain | Hubertusplatz, Aachen | 1992 | Benno Werth | hexagonal, three-tier basalt stone fountain | |
Karlsbrunnen | Market place Aachen | before 1334 | Johann Joseph Couven (bluestone basin, around 1735); Franz and Peter von Trier (bronze bowl, around 1620) | Figure of Charlemagne cast in Dinant around 1620 ; Monument protection | |
Karlshofbrunnen | Karlshof am Markt, Aachen | 1969 | Ottmar Hollmann | modeled on the octagon in Aachen Cathedral; Side relief: Seven Liberal Arts ; Bronze, marble and concrete | |
Kennedypark , fountain | Kennedypark, Aachen | 1966 | Pond with fountain | ||
Small fountain in Deliusviertel | Kuckhoffstrasse, Aachen | 1993 | Benno Werth | Well system with watercourse, past pagoda-like bronze buildings, water features, sluices and water wheels; Counterpart to the large fountain system 100 m away | |
Money cycle | Hartmann- / Ursulinerstraße, Aachen | 1976 | Karl-Henning Seemann | Donated by the Sparkasse Aachen , bronze | |
Kugelbrunnen (Aachen) | Adalbertstrasse, Aachen | 1977 | Albert Sous | Concrete pools with ceramic balls; Stainless steel column with an opening and closing ball as a modeled flower; to the side a drinking water fountain | |
Spa park fountain | Aachen spa gardens , Monheimsallee | 1852/53 | Peter Joseph Lenné | Part of the Aachen spa gardens in the style of an English landscape garden | |
Running children | St.-Josefs-Platz Aachen, in front of the swimming pool east | 1973 | Boniface Stirnberg | three children run into the cool water, bronze | |
Life ladder | Marienheim Aachen fire | 1995 | Peter Hodiamont | 8 meter high bronze mosaic | |
Möschebrunnen | Munsterplatz, Aachen | 1978 | Boniface Stirnberg | High German called Spatzenbrunnen ( Öcher Platt : Mösche equals Spatzen); Bronze, drinking water fountain | |
Fountain of Neptune | Large swimming pool in the Elisabethhalle Aachen | around 1910 | Carl Burger | ||
Fountain of Paradise | in the atrium, the cloister of Aachen Cathedral | 1897 | Georg Frentzen | originally intended as a decoration for the former cathedral cemetery located here; fed by the Pau , sandstone , monument protection | |
Doll fountain | Krämerstrasse, Aachen | 1975 | Boniface Stirnberg | Metal dolls with movable joints, dolls symbolize Aachen events, bronze | |
Raven Well | Alt-Linzenshäuschen | 1956 | Matthias Corr | Restoration of the former historical horse trough and new creation of a raven sculpture | |
Tube fountain | Komphausbadstrasse, Aachen | 1971 | Heinz Tobolla | forty stainless steel tubes, illuminated from the inside in the evening | |
Rose spring fountain | Kurpark Burtscheid , Dammstrasse | ||||
Seahorse fountain | Burtscheid | 1953 | Gerhard Thomalla | Original location until the 1970s in the Rotunda Elisenbrunnen, bronze on dark Belgian marble | |
St. Nepomuk fountain | Haaren, Alt-Haarener-Strasse | 1997 | Mario Muller | St. Nepomuk as the patron saint of bridges and against water hazards is supposed to offer protection from the flood of the Haarbach, which runs underground here . | |
Thermal fountain Burtscheid - market fountain | Burtscheider Market | 1953 | Hanns Compernaß (draft); Rita Landvogt (reliefs) | Thermal water drinking fountain (63 ° C); Ceramics , reliefs refer to the history of Burtscheid; Monument protection | |
Triton fountain | Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee, Aachen | around 1905 | Carl Burger | original location until 1923 in front of Aachen main station ; Beginning of the open pau , monument protection | |
Türelüre-Lißje | Klappergasse , Aachen | 1967 | Hubert Loneke | Scene from an old Aachen legend, bronze and granite | |
Vincent Fountain | Munsterplatz, Aachen | 1847 | Wilhelm Josef Wings and Gottfried Götting , Architecture Friedrich Joseph Ark | formerly also called Mariensäule; consecrated to St. Vincent de Paul , neo-Gothic style, sandstone, monument protection | |
Water cascades | Burtscheider Market | 1976 | The fountain is reminiscent of the Wurmbach , which previously flowed through the village and was then laid underground in 1882 | ||
Water feature | Scheibenstrasse, Aachen | Benno Werth | Bronze, cast using the kieselguhr process | ||
Water games (Burtscheid) | Malmedyer Strasse, Aachen-Burtscheid | 1969 | Philipp Anton | Stainless steel fountain; falling water makes the bowl ring | |
Water stairs | Hermann-Heusch-Platz, Aachen | 1992/93 | Benno Werth | Basalt lava and bronze; fed by the water of the Pau | |
Water and life | Benediktinerstraße, in front of the Schwertbad entrance, Aachen-Burtscheid | 1989 | Heinz Tobolla | Glass and water column, originally intended for Aachen's Lindenplatz | |
Water curtain | Elisengalerie, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz, Aachen | 1998 | Joachim Black | Water curtain on thin stainless steel chains, modeled on the hanging gardens of the Semiramis | |
Strong blacksmith | Jakobstrasse, Aachen | 1909 | Carl Burger | Legendary figure of Gertrudis Night ; Bronze, monument protection |
Sculptures
designation | place | Construction year | Artist | Characteristic | image |
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Bear of Berlin | Motorway exit Madrider Ring to A544 direction Cologne | 1998 | Lutz Brockhaus | New creation, the previous sculpture by Karl Bobek from 1964 was weathered; 180 cm high, thus 50 cm higher than the first figure | |
Blue square and red point | Steinbachstrasse, at the Institute for Automotive Engineering, Aachen | 1999 | Dieter Wolf and students at the School of Design | Sculpture for the accompanying exhibition to EXPO 2000 , the blue square is supposed to symbolize everything living, the red dot everything man-made | |
Fire bull | Market place Aachen-Brand | 1976 | Karl-Henning Seemann | Symbol of the Brand district | |
Bronze statues | Intzestraße Aachen, in front of the Institute for Metallurgy | 1916 | Mathias Streicher | Representation of the ironworkers, monument protection | |
Friendship Bridge | Tempelhofer Strasse, Aachen | 1986 | Manfred Bredohl and artist of the World Blacksmiths Congress | stands for the international cohesion of the blacksmiths | |
The flute player | Corner of Steinstrasse / Hansmannstrasse, Aachen-Eilendorf | around 1920 | Matthias Corr | Placed as a fountain ornament in the Elisengarten Aachen until 2008 | |
The happy stallion | Place in front of the Aachen theater | 1963 | Gerhard Marcks | Symbol for the equestrian city of Aachen, bronze | |
The caller | Place in front of the Bundesbank branch , Römerstrasse Aachen | 1986 | Gerhard Marcks | Copy of the original from Bremen from 1966, depiction of a message transmitter, bronze | |
The devil and the market woman | Kupferstrasse, at the foot of the Lousberg , Aachen | 1985; Inauguration Thursday, May 30, 1985. | Krista Löneke-Kemmerling | Aachen legend figures, bronze | |
The reader | Book space in the literature garden of Mayersche Buchhandlung , Buchkremerstraße, Aachen | 1985 | Wolf Ritz | Donated by Mayersche Buchhandlung, bronze | |
The seated one | Burtscheid spa gardens | 1962 | Heath Dobberkau | Donated by the Aachener Bank , bronze | |
Doemjrof | Hermann-Heusch-Platz, Aachen | 1983 | Hubert Loneke | As Doemjrof (= Domgraf) the Aacheners refer to the rascals / girls who lived near the cathedral; bronze | |
Three figures | Suermondtplatz Aachen | 1987 | Klaus Schmetz | Three people look past each other - a symbol of an everyday situation | |
Angel at the Roskapellchen | Rosstrasse, Aachen | 1988 | Gerhard Hensen (Atelier Bonifatius Stirnberg) | donated for the 150th anniversary of the “Roskirmes”, bronze | |
Duck catcher | Aachen zoo | 1986 | Wolfgang Binding | ||
Donkey rider | Aachen zoo | 1986 | Wolfgang Binding | ||
Owl tree | Aachen zoo | Willi Tannheimer | |||
Eva and Borchard | Turpinstrasse, Aachen | 1978 | Karl Bobek | Part of a group of 48 sculptures on the subject of iron landscape and street distributed nationwide | |
Francis of Assisi | Aachen zoo | 1996 | Willi Tannheimer | ||
Frying tongs | Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz, Aachen | 1998 | Peter Eisenman | Made entirely of stainless steel, used as a waiting shelter | |
Five horses | Forecourt at Aachen Central Station | 1975 | Boniface Stirnberg | Symbol for the equestrian city of Aachen, bronze | |
Great Aachener | Roermonder Strasse, in front of the Aachen employment office | 1989 | Franz Bernhard | ||
Haarener Cross | on the Haarberg in Aachen-Haaren | 1971 | Paul Stollmann | 15 m high steel cross on a concrete base. Replacement for a stone summit cross from 1891 that was destroyed in 1944. | |
Saint George | Trierer Strasse 501, in front of the Aachen Police Headquarters (until the beginning of 2019 Hubert-Wienen-Strasse) | 1980 | Wolfgang Binding | Made on the occasion of the inauguration of the new police headquarters building in the Soers as a symbolic patron saint of the police, bronze | |
In dialogue | Forecourt Missio building, Dr. Anton-Kurz-Allee, Aachen | 2011 | Wilhelm Senoner | Three life-size, red lacquered figures standing on square plinths; a fourth free base with the inscription: "missio / haben.leben.iegen" symbolically invites you to talk | |
Sweeper | Annuntiatenbach, Aachen | 1973 | Heinz Tobolla | Aachen original, bronze, installed in 1975 | |
Klenkes | Holzgraben, Aachen | 1970 | Hubert Loneke | Reminder of the manual sorting technology used by the employees of the Aachen needle industry; today symbol for the Aachen greeting, bronze | |
Crucifixion group Henger Herrjotts Fott | Wirichsbongardstrasse, Aachen | 1989 | Boniface Stirnberg | Bronze replica of a stone crucifixion group from 1897 that was destroyed in the war | |
locomotive | Republic Square in front of Aachen Westbahnhof | 1983 | Albert Sous | made from stainless steel scrap | |
Girl on the wall | Theaterstrasse , Aachen | 1979 | Clemens Pasch | Bronze figure on natural stone | |
Girl plastic | Burtscheider Market | 1930 | Helmuth Schepp | First casting in the Suermondt Ludwig Museum , bronze | |
People in conversation | in front of the Templergraben university library, Aachen | 1967 | Heinz Tobolla | 3.50 meter high replica of a 55 cm bronze sculpture by Tobolla, which was awarded two prizes at the Unesco exhibition in Monte Carlo in 1962 | |
People and economy | in front of the Volksbank in Aachen-Verlautenheide | 1979 | Heinz Tobolla | Bronze sculpture | |
With child and cone | Trierer Strasse, Aachen-Brand | Boniface Stirnberg | Subtitle: Vür drive met de Modder noh dr Brand ; Symbol for the outing of the townspeople to riding and aviation events in the Brander Heide , bronze | ||
clef | Roundabout Ringstrasse / Kleinheidstrasse in Aachen-Brand | ||||
Oecher Prent | Corner of Büchel-Körbergässchen, Aachen | 1985 | Hubert Loneke | Symbol for the Aachen Printen as a traditional pastry, donated by Leo van den Daele, bronze | |
Oecher tram | Oberplatz, Aachen | Boniface Stirnberg | bronze | ||
Nameless | Back of St. Gregorius in Aachen-Steinebrück | Boniface Stirnberg | bronze | ||
Penn soldier | Marching gate , Aachen | 2007 | Klaus seemed | Symbol of the former Aachen City Guard, made in Monschau , bronze | |
plastic | Market, Aachen-Haaren | 1992 | Joachim Bandau | popularly known as "God's pointing finger" | |
Phoenix | Schinkelstrasse in front of the Reiff Museum | 1962/63 | Helmuth Schepp | black polished bronze sculpture as a symbol for the rise from the ashes | |
Pony handler | Aachen zoo | 1983 | Wolfgang Binding | ||
Umbrella ladies | Großkölnstrasse, Aachen | 1974 | Heinz Tobolla | Also Aachen Weather named after the actual or perceived high number of rainy days, Bronze | |
heron | Brückstrasse / Severinstrasse, Aachen-Eilendorf | 1972 | Hubert Loneke | Bronze sculpture | |
Equestrian wrestling | Kockerellstrasse, Aachen | 1975 | Karl-Henning Seemann | Icon for popular children's game, bronze | |
Playing horses | Entrance to the show grounds Aachen-Laurensberger Rennverein Krefelder Strasse, Aachen | 2006 | Wolfgang Binding | Symbol for the equestrian city of Aachen, also as a small sculpture in trade, bronze | |
Game ship | Place in front of Mayersche Buchhandlung , Buchkremerstraße, Aachen | 1979 | Boniface Stirnberg | built from rot-proof stainless steel and bronze; | |
Stilt | Hermann-Heusch-Platz, Aachen | 1983 | Krista Löneke-Kemmerling | also named stilt children; bronze | |
Four Seasons | Hüttenstrasse, Aachen-Eilendorf, in front of the parish church of St. Barbara | 1976 | Peter Hodiamont | Bronze tree depicting the 4 seasons, 3 meters high | |
Water-scooping boy | Freihof of the day care center Kalverbenden Aachen-Burtscheid | around 1938 | Alfred Pieper |
Sculptures
designation | place | Construction year | Artist | Characteristic | image |
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The breakthrough | Hermann-Heusch-Platz, Aachen | 1984/85 | Heinz Tobolla | made from Belgian granite; The monolith is reminiscent of the division of Germany | |
Crucifixion group | Jakobsplatz Aachen | 1893 | Wilhelm Pohl and Carl Esser | created as a reminder of the old Jakobskirche Aachen | |
Cross sculpture | Pass road in front of Friedenskirche, Aachen | 1986 | Heinz Tobolla | ||
Marian column | Rehmplatz, Aachen | 1887 | Wilhelm Pohl | Aachen's first religious monument, client was the entrepreneur Gerhard Rehm , design by city architect Joseph Laurent; Sandstone, monument protection |
literature
- Anke Schütt: Where water flows and bronze shimmers . Einhard-Verlag, Aachen 2002, ISBN 3-936342-14-8 .
Web links
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