List of monuments in Koblenz

This list of monuments in Koblenz is intended to provide an overview of the monuments and memorial plaques in the city of Koblenz . This list does not claim to be complete, but will be updated continuously. The monuments are arranged chronologically according to their date of installation, as far as this is known.

Monuments

designation	Location	occasion	Built/ Inaugurated	Draft/ Artist	image
Peter Altmeier Monument	On the banks of the Moselle, towards Deutsches Eck	In memory of Peter Altmeier , the former Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate	October 7, 1981, supplemented by a plaque on August 28, 1982	Horst Schwab , Kusel
Baldwin monument	On the Baldwin Bridge	In memory of the Elector Baldwin of Luxembourg	August 13, 1975	Rudi Scheuermann , Koblenz
Bridge monument	In the Rhine facilities , at the level of the wine village	In memory of the construction of the Pfaffendorfer Bridge	September 29, 1864, after being destroyed for the second time on May 24, 1876	unknown
Fountain monument	Upper castle courtyard, Ehrenbreitstein Fortress	To rebuild the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress	1844	unknown
Memorial of the German Army	Ravelin, Ehrenbreitstein Fortress	In memory of the fallen of the First and Second World Wars	October 29, 1972	Hans Wimmer
Marceau monument	French cemetery in Koblenz-Lützel	Tomb of the French revolutionary general François Séverin Marceau	October 22, 1797, demolished in May 1817, reconstruction at the current location at the end of 1818	Peter Joseph Krahe , lion relief by Ph. Bohl
Pastor Kraus monument	In front of the rectory of St. Nikolaus in Koblenz-Arenberg	In memory of Pastor Johann Baptist Kraus , the founder of the Pfarrer-Kraus-Anlagen	1930
Memorial to the Jews from Koblenz who were murdered during the Nazi era	Jewish cemetery in Koblenz-Rauental	In memory of the Jewish people in Koblenz who perished in the Holocaust	1947
Memorial to the war dead in the city of Koblenz	Main cemetery of the city of Koblenz , former Hübeling battery	In memory of the dead in World War II	1828–30, conversion to a memorial from 1956	Hans Wilhelm Mutzbauer (planning)
Memorial to those who fell in the 1866 campaign	Koblenz-Asterstein	In memory of those who fell in the German War of 1866	4th July 1869	Christian Mohr
Memorial to the German veterans of Napoleon's army	Main cemetery of the city of Koblenz	In memory of the dead in the Napoleonic Wars	May 5, 1843
Nikolaus-von-Kues monument	Florins Market	In memory of Nikolaus von Kues and his time in Koblenz as dean of the St. Florin Monastery	February 23, 2007	Waldemar Kaspers sculpture workshop from Schuld (Ahr)
Monument to Max von Schenkendorf	In the Rhine facilities , at the level of the wine village	In memory of the patriotic poet Max von Schenkendorf	December 11, 1861. Damaged by vandalism in spring 2012, the head stolen, restored in 2013	Johann Hartung
Empress Augusta Monument	In the Rhine facilities , at the level of the swan pond	In memory of Empress Augusta , the wife of Wilhelm I.	October 18, 1896	Bruno Schmitz (monument), Karl Friedrich Moest (sculpture)
Kaiser Wilhelm I monument	At the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle , Deutsches Eck	Thanks to Wilhelm I for the unification of Germany	August 31, 1897 March 16, 1945 destroyed by an American artillery shell September 25, 1993 Inauguration of the reconstruction after years of extremely intensive disputes (1987 to 1993)	Bruno Schmitz (base), Emil Hundrieser (statue) Raimund Kittl (Reconstruction from 1993)
Monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I and Empress Augusta	Northern end of the former Rhine island Oberwerth	Golden wedding	June 11, 1879	unknown
Barbara monument	Friedrich-Ebert-Ring, at the height of the Christ Church	In memory of the dead of the Rhenish Field Artillery Regiment No. 8	October 6, 1907; Demolished in 1956, rediscovered in 1982 and stored in the municipal building yard - re-erected at the end of 2014 on Friedrich-Ebert-Ring, about 350 m from the original location	Georg Schreyögg , Munich
Monument for the Infantry Regiment “von Goeben” No. 28	Helfenstein, Ehrenbreitstein Fortress	In memory of the fallen soldiers of the infantry regiment "von Goeben" (2nd Rheinisches) No. 28	Unveiled on June 15, 1935. In the course of a “monument clean-up”, the infantryman was dismantled and scrapped in the summer of 1945, with the base partially destroyed. In 1960 soldiers of the Panzer Grenadier Battalion 142 stationed in Koblenz shaped the remains of the smashed memorial into a new memorial stone in a dignified, simple form.	Sculptor Emil Hollweg
Monument to Fritz Michel	Johannes-Müller-Str., Near the entrance to the Evangelisches Stift	In memory of Fritz Michel , doctor, local researcher, historian and art historian	December 1989	Eberhard Linke
Johannes Müller Memorial	Jesuit Square	In memory of Johannes Peter Müller , doctor and physiologist	October 7, 1899	Joseph Uphues , Berlin
Friedrich Mohr monument	Casinostraße, at the level of the Eichendorff-Gymnasium	In memory of the natural scientist Karl Friedrich Mohr	Erected on June 21, 1914 on the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring (Friedrich-Ebert-Ring), after the war it was rebuilt as a bust at the current location in Casinostraße, remains are stored in the Middle Rhine Museum	Hugo Cauer
Joseph Görres Monument	In the Rhine area , at the level of the castle	150th birthday of Joseph Görres	June 24, 1928	Richard Langer
Memorial for the victims of National Socialism in Koblenz	Reichensperger Platz	In memory of the victims of National Socialism	August 23, 2001	Jürgen Waxweiler
Metternich owl	On the Kimmelberg in Koblenz-Metternich	Prussian war memorial	1913	Wilhelm Muller
War memorial	Aachener Strasse, corner of Alte Strasse in Koblenz-Rübenach	Prussian war memorial	1913
Fall of the Knight Memorial	Knight fall	In memory of the Rittersturz conference of 1948	July 8, 1978	Rudi Scheuermann
Father Rhine and mother Mosel	Garden of the electoral palace		1854	Johann Hartung

Memorial plaques

designation	Location	occasion	Built/ Inaugurated	Draft/ Artist	image
Memorial plaque for Friedrich Halter	Lützeler Friedhof, on the former Eskarpe of the Bubenheimer Flesche	In memory of the founder of the Koblenz Animal Welfare Association	unknown	unknown
Memorial plaque for Hans Wilhelm Mutzbauer	In the Rhine facilities , on the former Prussian city wall	In memory of the city gardening director 1950–1968	unknown	unknown
Memorial plaque for the Elector of Trier Lieutenant Baron Arnold von Solemacher	Klausenberg Chapel	In memory of Lieutenant Baron Arnold von Solemacher, who fell in a failure in 1795, and 15 electorate hunters	1901	unknown
Memorial plaque for the victims of the air raids on Koblenz	On the plan , embedded in the pavement near the four towers	40th anniversary of the destruction of the city in World War II	1984	Heinz Kassy
Ship bridge	In the Rhine facilities , near the government building	In memory of the Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein ship bridge 1819–1945	1985	Heinz Kassy
Relief in memory of the destroyed Carmelite Church	BWB, corner of Rheinstrasse / Karmeliterstrasse	In memory of the destroyed Carmelite Church		Hermann Tomada
Memorial plaque for Father Josef Kentenich	BWB, corner of Rheinstrasse / Karmeliterstrasse	In memory of the founder of the Schoenstatt Movement, Josef Kentenich, who was held here by the Gestapo	1985	Workshops of the Schoenstatt Movement
Memorial plaque for Detlef Becker	“Haus am Wöllershof”, 12th floor, Sparkasse Koblenz	In memory of Detlef Becker who was killed in a bank robbery	October 6, 1986	unknown
Memorial plaque for bridge-building victims	South bridge	In memory of the workers who died while building the bridge	1975	unknown
Plaque commemorating the birthplace of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing	Rhine plants near the wine village		September 2010	unknown
Stumbling blocks	Set in various streets, see the list of stumbling blocks in Koblenz	Remembering victims of National Socialism	First installation on January 27, 2007	Gunter Demnig
Memorial plaque at the Bürresheimer Hof	Bürresheimer Hof, Florinsmarkt	In memory of the synagogue located there and destroyed during the "Reichspogromnacht 1938"	2009	Friendship Circle Koblenz-Petah Tikva
Memorial stone for Sinti and Roma	Peter-Altmeier-Ufer	In memory of the Sinti and Roma who were deported from Koblenz to concentration camps and murdered there.	1997	unknown

Lost, destroyed or dismantled monuments

designation	Location	occasion	Built/ Inaugurated	Draft/ Artist	Whereabouts	image
Memorial plaque for Heinrich Lommatzsch	Feste Franz until 1921, later in the Lützeler Volkspark , at the Reduit of the Bubenheimer Flesche	In memory of the lieutenant who fell on April 18, 1864 at the Düppeler Schanzen	unknown	unknown	lost after 1969
"The watch on the Rhine"	Rheinanlagen , near the Pfaffendorfer Bridge	In memory of the war of 1870/71	1881	unknown	Canceled November 1919
Memorial plaque for Karl Baedeker	Rheinstrasse 25	50th anniversary of Karl Baedeker's death	4th October 1909	unknown	The house on Rheinstrasse was destroyed in an air raid in 1944
Goeben monument	Goebenplatz (today Joseph-Görres-Platz)	In memory of the winner of the Battle of Saint-Quentin in the Franco-German War, the Prussian General August Karl von Goeben	September 26, 1884	Fritz Schaper	Dismantled after the Second World War, the statue has been in the Gneisenau barracks since December 1960 and in the Falckenstein barracks since 2006 .
Memorial plaque for Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner	In the courtyard of the house at Kastorpfaffengasse No. 4	In memory of the composer and conductor	unknown	unknown	lost after 1945
Memorial of the German Wine	Rheinanlagen , near the wine village	Reich Exhibition of German Wine from August 8 to September 13, 1925	unknown	Josef Henselmann	destroyed in war
Memorial plaque for Hermann Stegemann	Friedrichstrasse 42	In memory of the historian Hermann Stegemann who was born in Koblenz	May 30, 1930	unknown	destroyed in war
Pioneer memorial stone	In the (old) Falckenstein barracks, from 1939 in the Rheinanlagen	In memory of the 1st Rhenish Pioneer Battalion No. 8	May 18, 1935	Carl Burger , Mayen	lost after 1945
Commemorative plaque of the voluntary labor service	Lützeler Volkspark , at the reduit of the Bubenheimer Flesche	As a reminder of the work done by the labor service to build the people's park	June 13, 1936	unknown	lost after 1969
Heroes memorial of the Lützel gymnastics club	Lützeler Volkspark , probably in the former moat	In memory of the dead of the First World War of the Lützel gymnastics club	11/18/1936	Wilhelm Tophinke (sculpture of the dead warrior )	unknown. Destroyed in the war or dismantled afterwards
Memorial stone with hero's portrait	Former Bienhornschanze , today in the Asterstein district	In memory of the dead Pfaffendorfer soldiers of the First World War	11/29/1937	Sculptor Pabst, Cologne	eliminated after 1946
Monument to the fallen 1914/18	exact location unknown		1919	Wilhelm Wandschneider	Proof in the directory of the Lauchhammer art foundry and in the artist's catalog raisonné

literature

• Helmut Kampmann: When stones speak. Memorial plaques and memorial plaques in Koblenz. Fuck-Verlag, Koblenz 1992, ISBN 3-9803142-0-0
• Peter Kleber / Matthias Kellermann: Tombs and monuments on the Petersberg in Koblenz-Lützel , in: Feste Kaiser Franz. On the history of the fortress and the Feste Franz system in Koblenz-Lützel. Festschrift for the 10th anniversary Feste Kaiser Franz eV, ed. von Feste Kaiser Franz eV, Koblenz 2008, pp. 99-106, ISBN 978-3-934795-55-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see www.vff-barbara.de/