List of monuments in Krefeld
Monuments in the city center
Count Hermann von Neuenahr-Moer's statue
Count Hermann von Neuenahr-Moer's statue | ||
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Monument type: | freeze frame |
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Dedication: | Count Hermann von Neuenahr and Moers | |
Origin location: | Next to the main portal of the old church in Krefeld | |
Current location: | received at the site | |
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Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): | Curt Beckmann | |
Used material: | basalt | |
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Otto von Bismarck statue
Otto von Bismarck statue | ||
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Monument type: | freeze frame |
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Dedication: | Chancellor Otto von Bismarck | |
Origin location: | Bismarckstrasse | |
Current location: | Bismarckplatz | |
Fate or fate / current state: | The statue was melted down in 1940 to extract material. During the clean-up work after the Second World War, the trench in the middle of Bismarckstrasse was filled with rubble and debris. The empty plinth was also buried. Rediscovered during earthworks by the Deutsche Bundespost, it was then dug up again and erected again in 1987 on Bismarckplatz without a substructure. | |
Draft: | Sculptor Gustav Eberlein | |
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Initiator, founder or client: | Citizenship of the city of Krefeld | |
Financing: | Collections of voluntary donations | |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | Sunday, March 31, 1895, the day before Bismarck's birthday, in the presence of 28 warrior associations, 28 civil associations, 20 choirs and 21 music bands, first and foremost the musicians from the 16th Infantry Regiment | |
Dedication inscriptions: | ? | |
Other remarks: | A metal plate with the inscription is embedded in the pavement in front of the base:
Erected by the city of Krefeld in 1895. The bronze figure for the extraction of war material cleared by the National Socialists in 1940. The remains of the memorial buried after 1963. Base found again and erected in 1987. Listed as a historical monument in 1996 - as a painful memory of ours History. Krefeld Monument Foundation. Trustee German Foundation for Monument Protection. |
War memorial 1870/71
War memorial 1870/71 | ||
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Monument type: | War memorial with a Germania statue on the base | |
Dedication: | unknown | |
Origin location: | Friedrichsplatz | |
Fate or fate / current state: | Dismantled for metal donation during the Second World War, Germania was only melted down after the end of the war. | |
Draft: | Sculptor Heinrich Walger , Berlin | |
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Initiator, founder or client: | Citizenship of the city of Krefeld | |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | June 19, 1875 | |
Dedication inscriptions: |
Their sons who died in 1870/71 the city of Crefeld and the |
De Greiff column
De Greiff column | ||
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Dedication: | Cornelius de Greiff , one of the greatest patrons and benefactors of the city of Krefeld. | |
Origin location: | Ostwall at the level of the Dampfmühlenweg | |
Current location: | Construction yard of the city of Krefeld | |
Fate or fate / current state: | The column was badly damaged in an Allied air raid on Krefeld during World War II and overturned. It was removed by the city administration and deposited in the municipal building yard. It is still there today; its restoration is still pending. | |
Draft: | Julius Moser |
Ludwig Friedrich Seyffardt Monument
Ludwig Friedrich Seyffardt Monument | |
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Dedication: | Ludwig Friedrich Seyffardt |
Origin location: | East wall |
Current location: | Leyentalstrasse |
Fate or fate / current state: | The bronze figurative representations on the base were dismantled for metal extraction during World War II. The remains of the monument were "hidden" in a little-noticed corner of Krefeld. |
Draft: | Sculptor Gustav Rutz , Düsseldorf |
Used material: | Relief, allegorical figures: cast bronze |
Initiator, founder or client: | Citizenship of the city of Krefeld |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | 1905 |
Dedication inscriptions: |
The energetic sponsor of charity and popular education to |
King-Friedrich-II-the-Great-statue
King-Friedrich-II-the-Great-statue | |
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Monument type: | freeze frame |
Dedication: | King Friedrich II of Prussia |
Origin location: | Nauenweg, in the beer garden of the restaurant "Alter Fritz", owner: Fritz von Kempen |
Fate or fate / current state: | lost |
Draft: | unknown |
Initiator, founder or client: | Fritz von Kempen (?) |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | unknown |
Dedication inscriptions: | unknown |
Kaiser Wilhelm I statues
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Monument type: | freeze frame |
Dedication: | Kaiser Wilhelm I. |
Origin location: | in the stairwell of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum |
Current location: | Karlplatz, next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum (north side) |
Fate or fate / current state: | permanently exposed to the weather; often smeared |
Draft: | Sculptor Gustav Eberlein, Berlin |
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Initiator, founder or client: | Committee for the erection of a Kaiser Wilhelm monument |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | Inauguration of the museum: September 5, 1899 (no separate unveiling of the monument) |
Dedication inscriptions: | ? |
Kaiser Wilhelm I statue | |
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Monument type: | freeze frame |
Dedication: | Kaiser Wilhelm I. |
Origin location: | City garden on St.-Anton-Straße |
Fate or fate / current state: | During the Second World War, the memorial was partially destroyed by bombs, and in 1950 the remains were removed. |
Draft: | Joseph Ossendorf |
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Initiator, founder or client: | Warrior Association of the City and District of Crefeld |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | June 27, 1880 (while the emperor was still alive) |
Dedication inscriptions: | Sr. Majesty to the most gracious Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, Wilhelm, the glorious leader in the years 1848 and 1849, dedicated by the warriors' association of the city and district of Crefeld |
Other remarks: | In 1863 there was a scandal when King Wilhelm I visited Krefeld. Except for the members of the Prussian Association, most of the Krefelders refused to give the king the usual honors and simply stayed at home. When this monument was to be erected for him in 1870 (?), Wilhelm, who had not forgotten the insult, demanded that he turn his back on the city. |
Veterans Memorial
Veterans Memorial | ||
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Monument type: | ? |
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Dedication: | In memory of Napoleon's soldiers who returned from Krefeld | |
Origin location: | Stadtgarten (cemetery grounds until 1879) on St.-Anton-Straße | |
Current location: | received at the site | |
Fate or fate / current state: | ? | |
Draft: | Friedrich von Schmidt (master builder Cologne) | |
Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): | ?
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Initiator, founder or client: | Veterans club | |
Financing: | ? | |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | August 18, 1852 | |
Dedication inscriptions: |
“In memory of the warriors of the city and the district of Crefeld who returned from Napoleon's armies. Erected on August 18, 1852. "
The names of the 123 warriors who returned from Napoleon's armies are also engraved with the year of their death. |
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Other remarks: | Inscriptions are e.g. Partly illegible, fence and monument in poor condition. |
Carl Wilhelm Monument
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Dedication: | Carl Wilhelm | |
Origin location: | East wall | |
Another location: | Corner of Jungfernweg / Dampfmühlenweg | |
Current location: | City garden on St.-Anton-Straße | |
Draft: | Bronze bust, 1877: Heinrich Walger Copy of the bust in ceramic, 1953: Peter Bertlings |
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Used material: | Sandstone plinth, polished marble pillar | |
Initiator, founder or client: | City of Krefeld and friends | |
Unveiling / inauguration date: | September 2, 1877 | |
Dedication inscriptions: |
CARL WILHELM TO THE ENJOYED SOUND POET PATERNAL SONGS THE SAENGER DER WACHT AM RHEIN HIS FRIENDS |
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Other remarks: | The original bronze bust is in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum |
Hussar memorial
Hussar memorial | ||
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Dedication: | Regimental monument 1914–1918 of the 2nd Westphalian Hussar Regiment No. 11 (popularly called " Krefeld Tanzhusaren ") | |
Origin location: | Grafschaftsplatz on Hohenzollernallee | |
Current location: | received at the site | |
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Initiator, founder or client: | Officers' association of the former hussar regiment | |
Unveiling / inauguration date: | June 2, 1929 | |
Dedication inscriptions: | "OURS / FALLEN / 1914-18-29" |
Kaiser Friedrich Monument
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Dedication: | Emperor Friedrich III. |
Origin location: | "Kaiser-Friedrich-Hain" on Steckendorfer Strasse |
Fate or fate / current state: | During the Second World War, the park was badly damaged by several heavy bombs. A large explosive bomb left a huge funnel in the middle of the rather small, but densely planted park area. This area is still only covered with a meadow. The whereabouts of the bronze bust is unclear, it is considered lost. Since it was not officially handed in for melting down, it is believed that it was stolen in the post-war chaos. |
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Unveiling / inauguration date: | April 3, 1915 |
Other remarks: | The pictures show the temple as well as the empty base inside, on which the bronze bust stood until 1945. The building is in dire need of renovation. |
Nymph in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Hain
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Monument type: | freeze frame |
Dedication: | ? |
Origin location: | Kaiser-Friedrich-Hain |
Fate or fate / current state: | During the Second World War, the park was badly damaged by several heavy bombs, and the statue of the nymph probably too. |
Draft: | ? |
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Initiator, founder or client: | ? |
Financing: | ? |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | ? |
Dedication inscriptions: | ? |
Other remarks: | Picture from around 1910 |
Weaver monument
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Dedication: | The Krefeld silk weavers |
Origin location: | Südwall near Hochstraße |
Current location: | Ostwall and Südwall |
Draft: | Johannes Stiegemann |
Initiator, founder or client: | Donated by the Beautification Association in 1910 |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | 1911 |
Other remarks: | The pictures show the monument around 1920 and 2007. A typical weaver's room is shown as a relief on the plate in the base. In the Krefeld vernacular this monument is also called "Master Ponzelaer" . |
Helmut von Moltke monument
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Monument type: | freeze frame | |
Dedication: | Field Marshal General Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke | |
Origin location: | East wall | |
Fate or fate / current state: | In 1940 the metal parts were dismantled and handed over to be melted down. The base was removed after 1945 for traffic reasons. | |
Draft: | Sculptor Wilhelm Albermann , Cologne | |
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Unveiling / inauguration date: | April 24, 1897 | |
Dedication inscriptions: | ? |
Marian column, Marienbrunnen Dionysiusplatz
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Monument type: | pillar |
Dedication: | Holy Maria |
Origin location: | Dionysiusplatz |
Current location: | received at the site |
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Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): | Still image: Brandstetter foundry , Munich |
Used material: | Bronze casting |
Initiator, founder or client: | Monument committee chaired by dean Monsignore Flecken collected donations from the citizenry. |
Unveiling / inauguration date: | July 23, 1922 |
Dedication: | Two octagonal well basins rise on a base, the larger one bears the following inscription:
ERECTED AFTER THE
WORLD WAR 1914/1918 IN 1922 BY THE CATHOLICS CREFELDS PEACE QUEEN BITT 'FOR US THE MANY WATERS OF THE TRUEBSAL COULD NOT ELIMINATE THE LOVE FOR YOU O MARIA |
Synagogue monument
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Origin location: | Market street |
Current location: | received at the site |
Dedication inscriptions: | THE SYNAGOGUE OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF KREFELD FROM THE YEAR 1903 STANDS NEAR THIS MEMORIAL. HUMAN DISPENSING WILL DESTROYED IT IN THE “REICHSKRISTALLNACHT” ON NOVEMBER 9, 1938. |
Warrior Memorial
War memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Krefeld gymnastics club in 1855 | ||
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Monument type: | Erratic block with a writing plate in front of it |
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Dedication: | Our fallen | |
Origin location: | Moerser Strasse at house number 40 (House Blumental) | |
Current location: | received at the site | |
Fate or fate / current state: | Stone and writing plate preserved | |
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Used material: | Boulder block made of brown coal sandstone, writing plate made of sandstone. The brown coal sandstone was found in the Wankumer Heide and weighs about 160 hundredweight.
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Initiator, founder or client: | Krefeld gymnastics club 1855 | |
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Date of unveiling / inauguration | 1930/1931 | |
Dedication inscriptions: | Writing plate: OUR FALLEN, heraldic shield in the octagon, left a K, right a 55, right and left. Oak leaves | |
Other remarks: | The boulder and not the plaque is the memorial stone of the Krefeld Gymnastics Club in 1855. The Krefeld Gymnastics Club merged with VfL Prussia in 1895 to form today's KTSV Preußen Krefeld 1855. The plaque could be rededicated following the merger. |
Memorial of the Free Butchers' Guild
Cenotaph of the butchers' guild | |||
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Monument type: | Cenotaph with a falling soldier (military coat and rifle) on a base. The dedication plaque bears the Krefeld butchers logo in the middle: a sacrificial lamb. | ||
Dedication: | The 32 members of the Free Butchers' Guild who perished in the First World War. The list of names was built into the base of a document. | Origin location: | on the grounds of the municipal slaughterhouse |
Fate or fate / current state: | After the Second World War, the years 1939 - 1945 were added. Monument on the spot, near Kufa, surroundings neglected. | ||
Draft: | Sculptor Wilhelm Röttges , Krefeld | ||
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Initiator, founder or client: | Free butchers' guild Krefeld | ||
Unveiling / inauguration date: | October 22, 1933 for the 50th anniversary of the butchers' guild | ||
Dedication inscriptions: |
THEY FALLEN IN |
Madonna figure with bronze plate
Monuments on sports fields
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Monument type: | freeze frame |
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Dedication: | For the 50th anniversary of the Krefeld gymnastics club in 1905 | |||
Origin location: | House Blumental | |||
Current location: | Originally in front of the entrance on a green area. Empty plinth on Haus Blumental today on the right in front of the house, memorial with a new plinth on the Hubert-Houben arena, roll call path. | |||
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Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): | Bronze cast Förster-Kracht, Düsseldorf | |||
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Initiator, founder or client: | The women of the club | |||
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Date of unveiling / inauguration | 1905 | |||
Dedication inscriptions: |
FOR THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, |
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Memorial of the KFK Prussia 1895
Memorial of the KFK Prussia | ||
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Monument type: | Stele (pillar) with Prussian eagle |
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Dedication: | the fallen of the club | |
Origin location: | "In the green grove at the entrance to the clubhouse" - where was that? | |
Current location: | ? | |
Fate or fate / current state: | lost | |
Draft: | Architect Hugo Lechmig, Krefeld | |
Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): | ? | |
Used material: | Stele in dark clinker bricks with four ceramic writing tablets, crowned by a Prussian eagle in glazed ceramic | |
Initiator, founder or client: | KFK Prussia 1895 | |
Financing: | ? | |
Unveiling / inauguration date: | October 12, 1930 | |
Dedication inscriptions: | The four plaques bore the names of the 48 fallen members (out of a total of 150) of the association. | |
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Marathon runner 1
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Monument type: | freeze frame |
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Dedication: | Marathon runners as an Olympic monument. In memory of the first marathon run at the modern Olympic Games in Athens (Greece) in 1896. | |
Origin location: | two identical plants are set up: Gladbacher Strasse sports field and Grotenburg-Kampfbahn | |
Current location: | District sports facility Gladbacher Strasse | |
Draft: | Prof. Max Kruse , Berlin | |
Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): | Gladenbeck GmbH Berlin | |
Used material: | Bronze on a brick base | |
Initiator, founder or client: | Deutsche Edelstahlwerke AG | |
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Date of unveiling / inauguration | January 17, 1936 | |
Dedication inscriptions: |
NENIKHKAMEN |
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Other remarks: | The messenger of victory from Marathon - rejoice, we have won |
Marathon runner 2
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Monument type: | freeze frame |
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Dedication: | Marathon runners as an Olympic monument. In memory of the first marathon run at the modern Olympic Games in Athens (Greece) in 1896. | |
Origin location: | two identical plants are set up: Gladbacher Strasse sports field and Grotenburg-Kampfbahn | |
Current location: | Hubert-Houben Kampfbahn, roll call path. | |
Draft: | Prof. Max Kruse , Berlin | |
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Used material: | Bronze on a brick base | |
Initiator, founder or client: | Deutsche Edelstahlwerke AG | |
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Date of unveiling / inauguration | January 17, 1936 | |
Dedication inscriptions: |
MARATHON |
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Memorial stone HFC
Main cemetery
Memorial for the victims of both world wars
Memorial for the victims of both world wars | ||
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Monument type: | Monumental work |
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Dedication: | The fallen | |
Origin location: | Krefeld main cemetery | |
Current location: | received at the site | |
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Draft: | Architect Hugo Lechmig, Krefeld | |
Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): | ? | |
Used material: | Shell limestone
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Unveiling / inauguration date: | Memorial Day 1930 | |
Dedication inscriptions: | THE FALLEN HONOR AND THANKS, on the reverse: 1914 + 1918 | |
Other remarks: | The work was originally erected as a war memorial on the Krefeld Ehrenfriedhof. |
Memorial for the deceased forced laborers 1941–1945
Memorial for the deceased forced laborers 1941–1945 | ||
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Dedication: | The deceased forced laborers | |
Origin location: | Krefeld main cemetery, "old part" | |
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Draft: | Frank Joergens | |
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Used material: | Concrete with writing plate | |
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Unveiling / inauguration date: | February 21, 1988 | |
Dedication inscriptions: |
IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS |
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Memorial to the victims of the bombing war
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Dedication: | Victims of the bombing war |
Origin location: | Krefeld main cemetery |
Fate or fate / current state: | received at the place |
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Stainless steel on a natural stone base |
Initiator, founder or client: | ? |
Financing: | ? |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | September 1988 |
Dedication inscriptions: | THE VICTIMS OF THE BOMB WAR 1940-1945 |
Memorial to the victims of the concentration camp
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Dedication: | The victims of the concentration camps | |||
Origin location: | Main cemetery Krefeld "New" part | |||
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Dedication inscriptions: | In front of the memorial is engraved in the base plates:
IN HONORED MEMORIAL OF THE FAMILIARIES WHO RESISTED |
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Other remarks: | The urns of the following people were buried here:
Johann Baumann (Dachau concentration camp), Josef Birgels (Dachau concentration camp), Johann Düle (Dachau concentration camp), Katharina Dollbaum (Auschwitz concentration camp), Joseph Driessen (Dachau concentration camp), Heinrich Hackenbroich (Buchenwald concentration camp), Heinrich Hitzler (Sachsenhausen concentration camp), Elly Kessels (Auschwitz Concentration Camp), Walter Laurentius (Dachau Concentration Camp), Karl Lifters (Dachau Concentration Camp), Mathilde Pegels (Auschwitz Concentration Camp), Peter Pohlen (Dachau Concentration Camp), Paul Prison (Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp), Wilhelm Raades (Buchenwald Concentration Camp), Wilhelm Schaages (Dachau concentration camp), Friedrich Thissen (Buchenwald concentration camp), Auguste Trips (Ravensbrück concentration camp), Erich Weinberger (Dachau concentration camp). |
Monuments in Krefeld-Forstwald
Battle memorial 1758
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Dedication: | in memory of the Battle of Krefeld on June 23, 1758 with a relief medallion of Prince Ferdinand of Braunschweig on the front of the column. The monument is crowned by an eagle with outspread wings. |
Origin location: | Hückelsmay, on Gladbacher Strasse |
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Draft: | Sculptor Adam Rützel , Krefeld |
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Initiator, founder or client: | Landwehr associations from Crefeld, Viersen, St. Tönis, Anrath and Hüls |
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Dedication inscriptions: |
Duke Ferdinand of Braunschweig, / Royal Prussian general of the infantry, / |
Monuments in Krefeld-Hüls
Johannes Junkers Monument (with relief)
Johannes Junkers Monument (with relief) | ||
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Monument type: | Pyramid made of boulder blocks |
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Dedication: | Johannes Junkers, founder of the Krefeld Wanderbund, rededicated for Ehrenbaas Eugen Vogelsang |
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Origin location: | on the Hülser Berg, at the Bergschänke | |
Current location: | received at the site | |
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Draft: | Sculptor Rudolf Maison | |
Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): | ? | |
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Initiator, founder or client: | Krefeld hiking association | |
Financing: | ? | |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | 1900 | |
Dedication inscriptions: |
JOHANN JUNKERS / HIS FOUNDER / DEDICATED BY / KREFELDER HEIMATBUND / 1900 |
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Reich Chancellor Bismarck Monument (with relief)
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Origin location: | Hülser Berg, Am Rennstieg 3, in a private garden |
Current location: | received at the site |
Draft: | Arthur Winkler |
Used material: | imitation rock with bronze portrait |
Unveiling / inauguration date: | 1902 |
Dedication inscriptions: | "BISMARCK / DES DEUTSCHEN / REICHES SCHMIED" |
Other remarks: | The monument is in dire need of restoration. |
War memorial 1866 and 1870/71
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Dedication: | The fallen soldiers 1866, 1870/71 |
Origin location: | Green area on Rektoratsstrasse |
Current location: | received at the site |
Fate or fate / current state: | Monument is in good condition. An iron grating that originally existed has been removed. The bronze figure of a dying warrior at the foot of the monument was melted down during World War II. |
Draft: | Oskar Bodin , Steglitz |
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Initiator, founder or client: | Guard Association Hüls |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | September 16, 1906 |
Dedication inscriptions: |
“Heroes died
for the fatherland in 1866 Ant. Everything Gottfr. v. Boiler conr. Stegmanns 1870/71 Jos. Husens Jos. Salmons Heinr. Weck PH Lickes " |
Memorial to those who fell in the war 1914-18
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Monument type: | Monument placed on a hill with a sacrificial stone and surrounded by 24 individual stones shaped as a cross with the names and years of death of the fallen soldiers from Hüls |
Origin location: | Green area at Hölschen Dyk on an island in the Königspark |
Current location: | received at the site |
Draft: | Architect Franz Brantzky , Cologne |
Used material: |
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Initiator, founder or client: | Initiator: Artillery Association Hüls |
Financing: | through voluntary donations |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | 1931 |
Dedication inscriptions: | "THE HEROES OF HUELS 1914–1918" (inscription on the cornice) |
Hinterorbroich war memorial
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Dedication: | The fallen soldiers 1864, 1866, 1870/71 |
Origin location: | Hinterorbroich, crossroads at house no.7 |
Current location: | received at the site |
Initiator, founder or client: | Orbroich Warrior Association |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | 1883 |
Dedication inscriptions: | “Grateful memory of the brave fighters 1864 1866 1870–1871 and the heroic sons of the Orbroichers who will never forget you. The heroic deaths of 1870–1871 Theodor Mühlenhaus, Heinrich Nellessen. As a result of the war, Konrad Haus Major died in 1883 " |
War memorial 1914–1918 of the cement factory Carstanjen & Cie.
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Monument type: | War memorial for the employees of the cement goods factory Carstanjen & Cie. Who died in the First World War . (Duisburg), dedicated to the employees who died in 1939–1945 |
Dedication: | The fallen 1914–1918 and 1939–1945 |
Origin location: | Talring near house no. 49 / "Schlufftrasse" |
Current location: | get there |
Fate or fate / current state: | ? |
Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): | (probably manufactured by Carstanjen & Cie.) |
Used material: | Artificial stone |
Initiator, founder or client: | Cement goods factory Carstanjen & Cie. |
Unveiling / inauguration date: | early 1920s |
Dedication inscriptions: | Bronze letters on the upper edge:
on the (new) inscription plaque:
at the foot of the monument:
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Other remarks: | The immediate surroundings of the monument were "adapted" to the style of the time with modern concrete paving stones. Dismantling is recommended. |
Pottbaker memorial
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Origin location: | Convent Square |
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Draft: | Sculptor Prof. Theo Akkermann (1930) |
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Base - natural stone |
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Dedication inscriptions: | 1981 ESTABLISHED BY THE HÜLS HEIMATVEREIN |
Heinrich Mertens memorial stone
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Monument type: | Memorial stone |
Dedication: | Heinrich Mertens |
Origin location: | Hülser Berg, path between Talring and Eremitenquelle (Heinrich Mertens Weg) |
Current location: | get here |
Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): |
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Used material: |
Erratic block on a brick base |
Initiator, founder or client: | Linker Niederrhein Association ?? |
Financing: | ? |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | before WW 2 |
Dedication inscriptions: | Heinrich Mertens |
Other remarks: | Heinrich Mertens was a teacher and a promoter of youth hiking, he also wanted to inspire young people who had left school for their love of nature. In 1928 he was a co-founder of the Linker Niederrhein Association (now the Niederrhein Association ). |
Erratic block with inscription
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Monument type: | Boulder |
Dedication: | ? |
Origin location: | Hülser Berg, on a forest path |
Current location: | received at the site |
Used material: |
Erratic stone with inscription |
Initiator, founder or client: | ? |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | ? |
Dedication inscriptions: | two crosses at a distance, text between them no longer recognizable. then: me and some comrades…. Reinher…. then sideways: 1924 1944 |
Other remarks: | The environment is not appropriate for the stone and something should be organized. |
Herbert Casemir memorial stone
Herbert Casemir memorial stone | ||
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Monument type: | Boulder |
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Dedication: | In memory of the spider researcher Herbert Casemir | |
Origin location: | Hülser Bruch , Falkenbergsdyk | |
Current location: | received at the place | |
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Initiator, founder or client: | Naturschutzbund (NABU) Krefeld-Viersen | |
Financing: | donate | |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | Saturday June 29, 1996 | |
Dedication inscriptions: | HERBERT CASEMIR 1905-1990 KREFELDER SPIDER EXPLORER |
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Monuments in Krefeld-Inrath
Angel of Peace "van't Ennert"
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Dedication: | Memorial to commemorate the dead of World War II |
Origin location: | small park on Hülser Strasse |
Current location: | received at the site |
Draft: | Prof. Theo Akkermann |
Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): |
Schnitzler foundry, Frechen |
Used material: |
Bronze sculpture on a base |
Initiator, founder or client: | VDK Krefeld-Nord, August Rundholz |
Financing: | Donations Inrath associations, companies and citizens, Prof. Akkermann waived a fee |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | November 25, 1962 |
Dedication inscriptions: | "In memory of the dead - in remembrance of the living" |
Monuments in Krefeld-Uerdingen
Emperor Friedrich III. Fountain
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Monument type: | Fountain |
Dedication: | Emperor Friedrich III. |
Origin location: | Marketplace |
Fate or fate / current state: | Was demolished for the construction of an air raid shelter. |
Draft: | Sculptor Gustav Rutz |
Initiator, founder or client: | Mayor Aldehoff |
Financing: | Donations from the citizens of Uerdingen |
Kaiser Wilhelm I and war memorial 1870/71
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Monument type: | Kaiser Wilhelm I monument;
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Sculptor Gelix Görling , Friedrichshagen b. Berlin |
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Dedication: | on the front of the base: WILHELM I. on the back: Dedicated to your hometown by Heinrich Mauritz and Frau Emilie geb. Thickness 1887 . |
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Origin location: | Rhine dam | |
Fate or fate / current state: | The statue was melted down, the base destroyed by an aerial mine. | |
Initiator, founder or client: | Kommerzienrat Heinrich Mauritz | |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | 1889 - An unveiling ceremony was not held due to the illness of the founder's wife. | |
Remarks: | The still image was a catalog item from Gladenbeck AG. Still images based on the same model were sold to Berlin-Schöneberg , Berlin-Johannisthal , Berlin-Weissensee , Bochum-Westenfeld , Grünberg / Silesia , Lüneburg and Oschersleben . |
Memorial "the sower"
Memorial "the sower" | ||
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Monument type: | Cenotaph with a statue |
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Dedication: | dedicated to the Uerdingen who fell in the First World War | |
Origin location: | Wall garden | |
Current location: | received at the site | |
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Draft: | Sculptor Peter Stammen | |
Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): | Bronze image foundry Bischoff Düsseldorf-Oberkassel | |
Used material: | Bronze casting | |
Initiator, founder or client: | ? | |
Financing: | ? | |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | around 1930 | |
Dedication inscriptions: | YOUR FALLEN HEROES + IN AERIGHT AND GRATITUDE THE CITY OF UERDINGEN A RHEIN
Names of the Uerdingers who fell in World War I, rededicated to the victims of World War II and National Socialism |
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Marian column in the Rhine enclosures
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Monument type: | Column with a statue |
Dedication: | Our Lady of God |
Origin location: | Rhine systems |
Fate or fate / current state: | received at the place |
Draft: | H. Platen Crefeld |
Used material: |
Obernkirchen sandstone |
Initiator, founder or client: | ? |
Financing: | ? |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | 1894 |
Dedication inscriptions: | Erected in 1894 |
Girl statue fountain Ter-Meer-Platz
Girl statue fountain Ter-Meer-Platz | ||
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Monument type: | statue |
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Dedication: | ? | |
Origin location: | Ter sea square | |
Current location: | received at the site | |
Fate or fate / current state: | The well is out of order, the basin has been filled with earth and planted | |
Draft: | ? | |
Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): | ? | |
Used material: | Kirchheim shell limestone, bronze | |
Initiator, founder or client: | Secret Commerce Councilor Dr. phil. Edmund ter Meer (1852–1931, chemical entrepreneur in the company Chemische Fabriken vorm. Weiler & ter Meer AG ) | |
Unveiling / inauguration date: | August 1, 1922 | |
Dedication inscriptions: | (not legible without tools) | |
Other remarks: | The hexagonal fountain basin is built from Kirchheimer shell limestone blocks, from which the column also consists. The bronze statue of a girl is supposed to embody the flora that greets those returning from work. The fountain basin is in dire need of restoration, the plants and soil should be removed from the basin. |
Hohenbudberg War Memorial
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Dedication: | The dead of the two world wars |
Origin location: | Forecourt of the church of St. Matthias Hohenbudberg (north-west corner of the former churchyard area) |
Current location: | available on site |
Fate or fate / current state: | in good condition on site |
Draft: | Sculptor Eleonore Meiß , Krefeld |
Used material: | Trachyte from the Westerwald (9 t heavy) |
Initiator, founder or client: | Hohenbudberg village community with the support of the parish and the companies Siershahn and Bayer AG |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | June 26, 1960 |
Dedication inscriptions: | In the middle of the memorial there is a cross, on the left soldiers with the inscription
IN HONOR TO THE WAR VICTIMS |
Monuments in Krefeld-Linn
Our dead
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Monument type: | Crosses |
Dedication: | the dead of the two world wars |
Origin location: | Green area Rheinbabenstraße at the corner of Hafenstraße (former cemetery at the landscape museum) |
Current location: | received at the place |
Draft: | ? |
Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): |
3 crosses with a writing plate in front of them. A historical cross has been preserved in the background of the area. |
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Basalt stones |
Initiator, founder or client: | ? |
Financing: | ? |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | ? |
Dedication inscriptions: | OUR DEAD 1914-1918 1939-1945 |
"Iron George"
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Monument type: | Still image, 3 m high |
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Dedication: | Support for the widows and orphans of the family fathers who died in World War I and a memorial for all those who died in our hometown | |
Origin location: | Ostwall, opposite the “Krefelder Hof” hotel (until around the end of the First World War) | |
Current location: | since 1930 in today's Museum Center Burg Linn, Hall of Honor | |
Draft: | Sculptor Helene von Beckerath | |
Used material: | worked from an oak log | |
Initiator, founder or client: | Reinhold Becker (1866–1924) (mining entrepreneur, including in Stahlwerke Becker AG with locations in Uerdingen and Willich) | |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | 1915 | |
Other remarks: | Depiction of Saint George as a dragon slayer. Iron George was a so-called nail figure. For a donation you could drive a nail in. Larger donations were honored with a name tag on the base. There are the names of simple citizens, well-known names of wealthy and also Jewish fellow citizens. |
Monuments in Krefeld-Bockum
"Deuss Temple"
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Monument type: | Round temple ( Doric Monopteros ) |
Dedication: | Wilhelm Deuss , velvet and silk manufacturer |
Origin location: | in the city forest, at the city forest pond |
Current location: | get here |
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Used material: | Kleinrinderfelder Muschelkalkstein , bronze cast |
Initiator, founder or client: | City of Krefeld (?) |
Unveiling / inauguration date: | October 31, 1913 |
Dedication inscriptions: | Badge with the inscription "WILH. DEUSS / 1827-1911 " |
Other remarks: | Wilhelm Deuss bequeathed a foundation to the city of Krefeld, from whose funds the city forest was created. |
War memorial 1870/71
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Origin location: | Old cemetery on Verberger Strasse, now a green area | |||
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Monuments in Krefeld-Fischeln
Warrior Memorial "Five Years - Five Swords"
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Monument type: | cenotaph |
Dedication: | The fallen of the First World War |
Origin location: | at the Fischeln cemetery, on the site of today's morgue |
Current location: | broken off after considerable war damage in 1953/1954 |
Draft: | Sculptor Kurt Schwippert , Düsseldorf |
Used material: | five cross swords (4.10 m high) in reinforced concrete, covered with red glazed ceramic plates |
Unveiling / inauguration date: | May 11, 1930 |
Dedication: | Quote of Angelus Silesius on the crossguards of swords: No death is more glorious than that which brings a life; no life is nobler than that which arises from death. |
Fischeln Cenotaph and Memorial
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Monument type: | Memorial and memorial |
Dedication: | Dedication: REMEMBRANCE - ADMINISTRATION |
Origin location: | Fischeln cemetery, burial ground for war graves |
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Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): |
Design: Theo Akkermann , Krefeld, casting: Schmäke, Düsseldorf |
Financing: | Donate Fischeln citizens, companies and associations |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | October 30, 1966 |
Marian column
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Monument type: | pillar |
Dedication: | Mary Immaculate Conception |
Origin location: | until 1854 burial place, today Marienplatz |
Current location: | received at the Marienplatz site |
Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): |
Statue: sculptor Hilgers (Cologne), base: sculptor Dicht (Linn) |
Initiator, founder or client: | Fischeln Citizens Committee |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | 1855 |
Dedication inscriptions: | SANTA MARIA sine labe originali |
Steinrath war memorial
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Dedication: | The missing and the fallen | |
Origin location: | ?? | |
Current location: | Fischeln, Steinrath near house no. 7a | |
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Used material: | Brick tower with built-in historical cross and historical memorial plaque | |
Initiator, founder or client: | Current work donated by Sappeur Corps and Schill officers Fischeln | |
Financing: | ||
Date of unveiling / inauguration | May 1997 | |
Dedication inscriptions: |
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Other remarks: | A plaque next to the tower says: The monument preservation "Steinrath" for the 70-year-old donated by Sappeur Corps and Schill officers Fischeln |
Monuments in Krefeld-Gellep-Stratum
Cenotaph for the fallen
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Monument type: | pillar |
Dedication: | The dead from Gellep Stratum |
Origin location: | old cemetery Gellep- Stratum? |
Current location: | Green area Düsseldorfer Straße opposite house no.316 |
Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): |
new monument: sculptor Joseph Lorenzen, Lank |
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Sandstone |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | rebuilt on November 12, 1960 |
Dedication inscriptions: | OUR DEAD 1914-1918 1939-1945 |
Other remarks: | Relief of George fighting a dragon on a shortened column. At the old place a longer column was originally built and the inscription: The dead of Gellep-Stratum can be read. |
Monuments in Krefeld-Traar
Fallen monument in Traar
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Dedication: | Those who fell in the World War 1914–1918, rededicated 1939–1945 |
Origin location: | Krefeld-Traar, Moerser Landstrasse, at the cemetery |
Current location: | locally |
Draft: | Sculptor Albert Pehle , Düsseldorf |
Used material: | Artificial stone |
Initiator, founder or client: | Traar municipality |
Unveiling / inauguration date: | July 20, 1930 |
Dedication inscriptions: | 1914–1918 / 1939–1945 (later supplemented) / THE POWERS IN THE WORLD WAR / FALLEN IN THE WORLD WAR / THE GRATEFUL / COMMUNITY TRAAR |
Other remarks: | is under monument protection |
Memorial stone on the cemetery of honor
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Monument type: | Writing plate on stone |
Dedication: | The 30 Traar men drafted for the 1870/71 campaign |
Origin location: | Traar Memorial Cemetery |
Current location: | ? |
Fate or fate / current state: | ? |
Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): |
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Initiator, founder or client: | ? |
Financing: | ? |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | ? |
Dedication inscriptions: | 1914 1918
PEACE May 10, 1871 WARRIORS ASSOCIATION AT TRAAR AUGUST 11, 1872 1939 1945 |
Monuments in Krefeld-Verberg
Honorary grave of an unknown soldier
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Monument type: | Erratic block with bronze plate and inscription plates in front of it |
Dedication: | The dead and missing from both world wars and the unknown soldier |
Origin location: | Verberg cemetery |
Current location: | Verberg cemetery |
Execution of the monument (workshop or foundry): |
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Used material: |
Boulder block made of quartzite and basalt slabs |
Initiator, founder or client: | Verberger citizens |
Financing: | ? |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | 3rd September 1950 |
Dedication inscriptions: | RESTING HERE IS AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER. AT THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, ON THE WEST FRONT IN THE HEINSBERG-HOVEN. IN HONOR TO REMEMBER THE DEAD OF TWO WORLD WARS, WE PREPARED HIM A CHRISTIAN TOMB. SEPTEMBER 3, 1950 THE VERBERGER BUERGERSCHAFT |
Other remarks: | The three basalt plates are labeled with the names of the missing and dead of the wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 |
Other monuments
Pastorius Monument Germantown
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Monument type: | Monumental work |
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Dedication: | The American Germans' attachment and gratitude to the old fatherland | |
Origin location: | Vernon Park Germantown, Philadelphia | |
Current location: | Model in the Museum Center Burg Linn | |
Fate or fate / current state: | The design was not implemented; a simpler memorial was made by Albert Jaegers | |
Draft: | Sculptor J. Otto Schweizer | |
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Initiator, founder or client: | Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation (German-American National Association) | |
Financing: | American Citizens Donations | |
Date of unveiling / inauguration | Vernon Park Philadelphia October 6, 1908 (Groundbreaking ceremony) | |
Dedication inscriptions: | In memory of the 74-day sea voyage on the Concord ship, on October 6, 1683, the founders landed Germantown, the first purely German settlement on American soil. ……. | |
Other remarks: | The monument was not erected that way; the model, one of three made from the Swiss design, was ceremonially handed over to the city of Krefeld on May 27, 1931 in the Linn local history museum. |
literature
- BLUHM, L. (1987): 125 years of the Mariensäule on Marienplatz in Fischeln.- Die Heimat 52: 146-147, 1 fig .; Krefeld.
- BLUHM, L. (1987): The Fischeln war dead and their memorial.- Die Heimat 58: 49-52, 3 fig .; Krefeld.
- BÖTTGES, J. (1989): Hüls 1790 - 1980.- Heimatverein Hüls, 366 p .; Krefeld.
- DOFFINÉ, E. (1968): The "Iron George" .- die Heimat, 39: 180-181, 1 fig .; Krefeld.
- EBERLEIN, F. (1981): The iron chancellor's monument. The Bismarck monument in Crefeld, created by Professor Gustav Eberlein.- die Heimat, 52: 123-126, 5 figs .; Krefeld.
- FEINENDEGEN, R. (1982): From the history of Bockum.- In: Bockum Citizens Association: Bockum, Krefeld.
- JÜLICHMANN, P. (1985): The Marian column - history of a Krefeld monument - the homeland, 56: 134, 2 fig .; Krefeld.
- KREMERS, E. (2002): From the boulevard to the biotope. The history of urban green in Krefeld. - 154 S. Krefeld.
- LUESTRATEN, H. (1971): Our beautiful Verberg.- pp. 66–67, 1 fig .; Krefeld.
- M. (1933): Consecration of a memorial on the city slaughterhouse by the Free Butchers Guild Krefeld.- die Heimat, 12 (3/4): 173, 1 fig .; Krefeld.
- MELLEN, W. (1998): Hüls. A chronicle - Heimatverein Hüls 156 S. Krefeld.
- MÜLLER, H. (1968): The Reformation in Krefeld.- die Heimat, 39: 103-107, 2 fig .; Krefeld.
- nn (1933): Fifty Years of the Free Butchers' Guild in Krefeld, Krefeld.
- nn (1931): War memorials in the district of Krefeld - Uerdingen am Rhein.- die Heimat, 10 (1): 61-67, 8 illustrations; Krefeld.
- nn (1931): To celebrate the takeover of the Pastorius memorial in the Krefeld Heimatmuseum - die Heimat, 10 (2): 74-88, 7 fig .; Krefeld.
- OLMES, J. (1956): "Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis" .- die Heimat, 27 (1/2): 72-73; Krefeld.
- REMBERT, K. (1927): On the grave of Dr. von Pempelfurts.-.- die Heimat, 6 (3): 251; Krefeld.
- REMBERT, K. (1950): Krefeld monuments. Memories of a knowledgeable hiker.- die Heimat, 21 (3/4): 171-185, 30 fig .; Krefeld.
- REMBERT, K. (1952): Um die Heideckstrasse.- die Heimat, 23 (3/4): 153-156, 9 fig .; Krefeld.
- SCHLÜTER, RF (1988): Monuments in Krefeld.- die Heimat, 59: 144-147, 13 fig .; Krefeld.
- SCHWABE, G. (1985): Krefelder Familien.- die Heimat, 56: 169, Seyffardt; Krefeld.
- STEEGER, A. (1931): On the war memorial of the Krefeld gymnastics club 1855. Brown coal sandstone.- die Heimat, 10 (2): 106-108, 4 fig .; Krefeld.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Irmgard Bernrieder, The soldiers of Napoleon, in: Rheinische Post, August 10, 2010
- ↑ J. Otto Schweizer in the English language Wikipedia
- ↑ Hans A. Pohlsander: German monuments in the Americas: bonds across the Atlantic (New German-American Studies / Neue Deutsch-American Studies 33) Bern etc .: Lang 2010 ISBN 9783034301381 , p. 7