List of stumbling blocks in Cologne

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Gunter Demnig laying a stumbling block in front of Cologne's historic town hall in March 2013.

The list of the stumbling blocks in Cologne leads the artist Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks in Cologne on. The art project was initiated by Gunter Demnig on December 16, 1992 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Heinrich Himmler's deportation order for “ Gypsies ”. The first stumbling block, on which the date of the start of the deportations and the first words of the order were engraved, was laid in front of the historical city hall of Cologne that day . In 2010 this stumbling block was broken out and stolen by strangers. On March 21, 2013, Gunter Demnig laid a new stumbling block in front of Cologne City Hall.

Project history

In the publication megalomania - art projects for Europe , Demnig formulated the theoretical concept of laying stumbling blocks. A 10 × 10 cm large concrete block clad with an engraved brass plaque on the sidewalk in front of the last freely chosen place of residence reminds of those persecuted by the National Socialists who were deported to various concentration camps, where they were murdered, expelled or driven to suicide .

On the initiative of Pastor Kurt Pick of the Antoniter congregation in Cologne , Demnig issued 230 stumbling blocks for murdered Roma in the church in 1994. On January 4, 1995, Demnig laid the first stumbling blocks at ground level in Cologne without official approval from the authorities. In July 2000, the first stumbling blocks were officially and legally laid in Aachener Straße 28 with official approval. To date, over 70,000 stumbling blocks have been laid across Europe, 2,164 of them in Cologne (as of early 2017) . New stumbling blocks are commissioned when individuals or groups, such as school classes or individuals, take on sponsorship for a fee . The bronze plaques are individually made by the Berlin sculptor Michael Friedrichs-Friedlaender .

The Cologne Stumbling Blocks are recorded in a database from the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne . Stumbling blocks were last laid in Cologne on March 18 and 19, 2019.

Due to their size, the list of stumbling blocks in Cologne was divided into the individual districts.

First stumbling block in front of the town hall with the deportation order from Heinrich Himmler (relocated on December 16, 1992).
Newly laid stumbling block in front of the town hall with Heinrich Himmler's deportation order (moved on March 21, 2013).
Gunter Demnig laying a stumbling block in Cologne-Ehrenfeld on January 17, 2009.
Stumbling block laying at Lothringer Straße 1 in Cologne's Südstadt district on March 19, 2019: Three stones for the Salomon family, who fled the Nazis in 1939 and survived.
Downtown district
Altstadt-Nord  • Altstadt-Süd  • Neustadt-Nord  • Neustadt-Süd  • Deutz
Rodenkirchen district
Bayenthal  • Marienburg  • Rodenkirchen  • Sürth  • White  • Folding rule

without stumbling blocks: Raderberg, Raderthal, Rondorf, Hahnwald, Godorf, Immendorf and Meschenich

District of Lindenthal
Klettenberg  • Sülz  • Lindenthal  • Braunsfeld  • Müngersdorf  • Junkersdorf

without stumbling blocks: Weiden, Lövenich and Widdersdorf

Ehrenfeld district
Ehrenfeld  • Neuehrenfeld  • Bickendorf

without stumbling blocks: Vogelsang, Bocklemünd / Mengenich, Ossendorf and Widdersdorf

Nippes borough
Nippes  • Mauenheim  • Riehl  • Weidenpesch  • Longerich  • Picture sticks

without stumbling blocks: Niehl

District of Chorweiler
Feeling

without stumbling blocks: Merkenich, Seeberg, Heimersdorf, Lindweiler, Pesch, Esch / Auweiler, Volkhoven / Weiler, Chorweiler, Blumenberg, Roggendorf / Thenhoven and Worringen

Porz district
Poll  • Porz  • Zündorf

without stumbling blocks: Westhoven, Ensen, Gremberghoven, Eil, Urbach, Elsdorf, Grengel, Wahnheide, Wahn, Lind, Libur, Langel and Finkenberg

Kalk district
Kalk  • Höhenberg  • Merheim  • Brück  • Humboldt / Gremberg  • Rath / Heumar

without stumbling blocks: Vingst, Ostheim and Neubrück

Mülheim district
Mülheim  • Buchforst  • Dellbrück  • Thin forest  • Holweide

without stumbling blocks: Buchheim, Höhenhaus, Stammheim and Flittard

source

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Cologne  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Kirsten-Serup Bilfeldt: Stumbling blocks. Forgotten names, blown traces. Guide to the fate of Cologne during the Nazi era . 2nd Edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-462-03535-5 , p. 160 .
  • Britta Bopf: "Aryanization" in Cologne. The destruction of the economic existence of the Jews 1933–1945 . 2nd Edition. Emons-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89705-311-X , p. 430 .
  • Martin Rüther: Cologne in the Second World War. Everyday life and experiences between 1939 and 1945 . Emons-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89705-407-8 , p. 960 .
  • NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne (Ed.): Stolpersteine. Gunter Demnig and his project. Emons, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-89705-546-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. Remembrance of Nazi victims: artist Gunter Demnig publishes 70,000. "Stumbling block" . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed November 3, 2018]).
  2. Stumbling blocks. Memorials for the victims of National Socialism - What are "stumbling blocks"? The NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne, accessed on February 12, 2017.