List of Cologne monuments from 1871 to 1918

In Cologne , during the German Empire from 1871 to 1918, numerous monuments , reliefs , busts , memorial stones and plaques were erected on various occasions in public spaces, mostly with the large participation of the Cologne population. In addition to privately financed monuments, many objects in the imperial era were financed by foundations and collections in the citizenry and executed by well-known artists. The most common form of monument at this time was the personal monument in the form of still images, portraits or reliefs.

Some of the monuments were destroyed or melted down during World War II. Others were still missing in the post-war period, were moved or cleared away.

The most important works of art and city history from this period are the large statues and monumental monuments, such as:

• The equestrian statue of Friedrich III on the left bank of the Rhine . at the Hohenzollern Bridge .
• The equestrian statue of Wilhelm II on the left bank of the Rhine at the Hohenzollern Bridge .
• The Bismarck Tower in the Marienburg district .

Many of the small monuments and reliefs erected during this period are located on the graves of the Melaten cemetery .

List of the monuments erected in Cologne between 1871 and 1918 in honor of contemporary people.

in honor of...	Location	Artist	Shape and material	Client	inauguration	conservation	Remarks	image
Johann Peter Balthasar Kreuser	Melaten cemetery (lit. A, between lit. G and R)	Peter Fuchs	Portrait medallion to Steele, marble	Friends and students	Oct 18, 1872	destroyed	reconstructed
Robert von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf	Melaten cemetery (lit. C, between R and U, no. 273–275)	Heinz Hoffmeister	Statue , marble	Committee chaired by Mayor Alexander Bachem	July 23, 1875	receive
Otto von Bismarck	Augustinerplatz (today Pipinstrasse)	Fritz Schaper	Statue, bronze	city ​​Cologne	0Apr 1, 1879	stolen from the courtyard of the town hall in the post-war chaos	Bismarck Monument (Cologne)
Franz Weber	Melaten cemetery (lit. M, between HWG and lit.P, no. 212/213)	Anton Werres	Funerary monument with bust , marble	Cologne men's singing association	0Oct 6, 1879	receive
Heinrich Bürgers	Melaten cemetery	Anton Werres	Portrait medallion on obelisk , bronze	German Progressive Party	June 27, 1880	destroyed
Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke	Laurenzplatz	Fritz Schaper	Statue, bronze	Citizens' Committee	0Apr 1, 1881	destroyed in World War II
Caspar Garthe	Cologne Zoological Garden	Anton Werres	Bust monument, bronze	Committee	26 Sep 1886	receive
Ferdinand von Hiller	Melaten cemetery (HWG, between Lit. M and T, No. 347)	Anton Werres	Bust monument, marble	Gürzenich Goncert Society	Oct. 24, 1886	receive
Johann Wilhelm Kaesen	Volksgarten	Anton Werres	Bust monument, bronze	city ​​Cologne	March 12 1892	Bust stolen after the Second World War, base preserved	Bust: Replica by the Aachen artist Ákos Sziráki
Gerhard Schönen	Melaten cemetery (lit. J, between E and F, no.176)	Wilhelm Fassbinder	Bust monument, bronze	Teaching staff in the administrative district of Cologne	June 23, 1894	receive
Wilhelm I.	Kaiser Wilhelm Ring	Richard Anders	Equestrian statue , bronze	city ​​Cologne	June 18, 1897	Melted down in 1943	Zinc cast model preserved in the Cologne City Museum
Wilhelm I.	City of Mülheim am Rhein , banks of the Rhine	Clemens Buscher	Equestrian statue , bronze	City of Mülheim am Rhein with the participation of the war clubs	Oct 16, 1898	Melted down in 1943	Preserved reliefs
Friedrich von Schmidt	West wall Herz-Jesu-Kirche Zülpicher Platz	Ernst Pfeifer	Relief with bust, bronze	Committee	Nov. 1898	lost
Ferdinand Franz Wallraf	In front of the former Wallraf-Richartz-Museum , today the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne	Wilhelm Albermann	Seated figure, bronze	city ​​Cologne	Apr 10, 1900	receive
Johann Heinrich Richartz	In front of the former Wallraf-Richartz-Museum , today the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne	Wilhelm Albermann	Seated figure, bronze	city ​​Cologne	Apr 10, 1900	receive
Hermann Auerbach	Melaten Cemetery (Hall 64, No. 51)	unknown	Portrait medallion, bronze	Association of Rhenish-Westphalian Stenographers	0May 8, 1900	receive
Otto von Bismarck	Oberland Ufer, Marienburg	Arnold Hartmann (Execution: Wilhelm Asbach )	Bismarck tower , greywacke masonry with white grouting	Committee (initiator: engineer Franz Schulz)	June 21, 1903	receive	Bismarck Tower (Cologne)
Adolph Kolping	In front of the Minorite Church (Kolpingplatz)	Johann Baptist carpenter	Statue, bronze	Kolping Society	July 12, 1903	receive	Adolph Kolping Monument (Cologne) bronze cast Förster u. Kracht (Düsseldorf), 1903
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach	Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring at the corner of Göbenstraße	Heinrich Stockmann Franz Dorrenbach	Seated figure, marble	city ​​Cologne	0Oct. 1, 1903	destroyed in World War II	Head preserved in the Cologne City Museum
Friedrich III.	Kaiser-Friedrich-Ufer / Deutscher Ring	Peter Breuer	Equestrian statue, bronze	Association of clubs and guilds	0Oct. 1, 1903	destroyed	Melted down in 1943
Franz Wüllner	Melaten cemetery (hallway 82, no. 5-8)	Ernst Gustav Jaeger	Portrait medallion on tomb, bronze	Cologne Citizens Committee	May 24, 1904	receive	flower-scattering figure destroyed
Otto Leichtenstern	In the garden of the Augusta hospital	Karl Donndorf	Bust monument, bronze	Committee of friends, students and assistants	Oct. 20, 1907	destroyed
Wilhelm Tangermann	Melaten Cemetery (Hall 81, No. 8)	Johann Baptist carpenter	Relief on the base of a cross	Old Catholic parish Cologne	May 28, 1910	receive	The grave site was restored and moved to hall 102
Wilhelm II.	Hohenzollern Bridge , left bank of the Rhine	Louis Tuaillon	Equestrian statue, bronze	Royal Railway Directorate Cologne	Sep 20 1910	receive
Carl Aldenhoven	Melaten cemetery	Johann Baptist carpenter	Portrait relief on stele	Committee of friends and admirers	Oct 25, 1910	destroyed
Otto Andreae	Kunstgewerbemuseum Cologne	Ferdinand Sieböck	Bust, marble	city ​​Cologne	Nov 30, 1910	lost
Paul von Breitenbach	Niche at the Hohenzollern Bridge, below the equestrian statue of Wilhelm II.	unknown	Bust, bronze	State Railway Directorate	May 12, 1911	lost
Friedrich III.	Hohenzollern Bridge , left bank of the Rhine	Louis Tuaillon	Equestrian statue, bronze	State Railway Directorate	May 22, 1911	receive
Bernhard Bardenheuer	Vestibule of the community hospital	Wilhelm Fassbinder	Bust, marble	city ​​Cologne	May 23, 1914	lost

literature

• Iris Benner: Cologne Monuments 1871–1918 Aspects of bourgeois culture between art and politics . 1st edition. Publication by the Cologne City Museum, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-927396-92-3 , p. 344 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ burial place. In: findagrave.com. Retrieved January 11, 2019 .