List of displaced persons in Lower Saxony (A – H)
This list of displaced monuments in Lower Saxony (A – H) shows the displaced monuments in Lower Saxony's cities and communities from Abbenhausen to Holzminden.
List A – H
image | place | location | year | description |
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Abbenhausen | Cenotaph at the war memorial | "In honor of the heavy victims of the displaced people in our community." | ||
Achim (Verden district) | Memorial stone next to the main entrance of St. Laurentius (Achim) | 1989 | ||
Alfeld (leash) | St. Nicolai (Alfeld) , memorial stone | 1988 | “700 years of Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains 1288–1988.” Jelenia Góra | |
Alfeld | Walter-Gropius-Ring, memorial to the fallen of World War II, honor plaque | |||
Altenbruch | Elbe dike, Treck-Kreuz (1950, dismantled) | |||
Ankum | Market arches / arcades at Artländer Dom , memorial plaque | 1988 | “This is where the expulsion of women, children and older men from the town and district of Glatz in Silesia ended on March 9, 1946. Released family members and other displaced persons were later added. We thank you for the admission in the most difficult time. We remember the victims of the war and the expulsion from the German East. Far but true. 1988. “ Kłodzko , Glatz district | |
Ankum | Memorial for the victims of war and tyranny at Artländer Dom: memorial plaque for the County of Glatz | 2016 | ||
Aurich | Memorial stone on the Ellernfeld | 2011 | “Many thousands of Germans were brought together in Aurich am Ellernfeld after the end of the war and distributed from here. This memorial stone is intended to commemorate the expulsion, but also to show the solidarity of the residents of Aurich with the people who have lost their homeland. With this we combine the hope that there will never be war and displacement with their inhuman consequences again. " | |
Bad Bevensen | Demminer oak grove | 1980 | ||
Bad food | Memorial stone German crown | |||
Bad food | Memorial plaque for the fallen and displaced at the Hünnefeld death house | |||
Bad food | Essen Mountain Memorial | 1954 | ||
Bad Harzburg | Uhlenklippen, Ostlandkreuz 1945–1950 , coat of arms of the provinces of Brandenburg, Pomerania, East Prussia, Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia, Danzig. Landsmannschaft West Prussia and German-Baltic Landsmannschaft | 1950/1998 | ||
Bad Harzburg | Spa garden, memorial stone Schreiberhau | 1990 | ||
Bad Pyrmont | East Prussia relief at Ostheim | |||
Bad Pyrmont | there, Trakehner statue, oak from Warsaw | |||
Bad Zwischenahn | Garden of the Ostdeutsche Heimatstube, Auf dem Winkel 8, memorial wall with relief refugee trail | 1945 | ||
Bad Zwischenahn | there, memorial stone | “God only takes home and bliss for all time from those who leave them in their hearts. In memory of our dead and our homeland. The home district Wirsitz, West Prussia. “ Wyrzysk | ||
Barsinghausen | Main street on the outskirts of Großgoltern in the direction of Hanover, Memorial Cross District Löwenberg in Silesia | 1950/1984/1989 | ||
Bassum | Memorial stone sponsorship Tapiau | |||
Bergen (District of Celle) | City cemetery on Harburger Strasse, Altburgund memorial | 1958 | ||
Bersenbrück | at the town hall | 1963 | Memorial stone district of Greifenhagen | |
Bersenbrück | ibid | 1980 | Memorial column, sponsorship for Greifenhagen , relief of St. Nikolaus and the coat of arms of the Osnabrück district | |
Bevern (district of Holzminden) | Cemetery, memorial wall with cross | 1955 | “In gratitude and loyalty to our dear dead in our lost homeland, in deep reverence for all the many who had to give up their lives while fleeing and in silent memory of those who are already resting in strange earth. East Prussia, West Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, Danzig, Memelland, Sudetenland, Brandenburg. " | |
Blinking | Memorial stone with fire bowl at the former dock of the Weser ferry Bremerhaven – Blexen | 1957 | Berlin Bear ; Wroclaw 650 km, Gdansk 750 km, Koenigsberg 950 km, Szczecin 500 km. | |
Bramsche | Memorial in Raschplatz Park | 1957 | "Don't forget our East German homeland!" | |
Braunlage | Memorial stone in the spa gardens, sponsorship for Krummhübel | 1996 | ||
Braunschweig | Urn cemetery on Brodweg, memorial stone | 1962 | “The dead of war, tyranny, displacement. The city of Braunschweig. " | |
Bredenbeck | Deisterstrasse, Steinkreuz | "The dead of our East German homeland" | ||
Bremervörde | Cenotaph on the tennis court in the Bürgerpark | 1950 | "The dead of the East." Tables Pomerania, West Prussia, East Prussia, Grenzmark, Silesia, Sudetenland. | |
Bremervörde | Memorial stone in front of the district building | 1968 | "The home district of Stuhm Westpr. the sponsoring district Bremervörde 1968. " circle Stuhm , district Bremervörde | |
Buckeburg | Memorial cross at the Jetenburg Church | 1949 | “Driven out of earthly homeland, but not homeless. 1946–1947. " | |
Burgdorf (Hanover region) | Park of town hall II at Burgdorf Castle , memorial stone for the Heiligenbeil district | 1990 | ||
Celle | Trift, memorial stone of the district of Celle for the district of Belgard (Persante) | 1954 | ||
Celle | there, memorial stone of the city of Celle for Marienwerder and the district of Marienwerder | 1954 | ||
Clausthal-Zellerfeld | Garden of the sculptor Reinhold Kraft in Festenburg , splitting memorial | 1978 | ||
Clenze | Bussau village square | 1979 | "As`n ditscher Hoan will ik be called no 'an Morjen dut min Krejen." | |
Cuxhaven | Displaced persons memorial on the corner of Altenwalder Landstrasse and Schneidemühlplatz | 1973 | ||
Cuxhaven | Memorial stone at Schneidemühlplatz | 1995 | “In grateful memory of the city of Cuxhaven taking in over 13,000 displaced people.” Coats of arms of West Prussia, East Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia and the Sudetenland. "East German homeland - unforgettable." | |
Cuxhaven | Cenotaph at the Brockeswalde cemetery | 1995 | "In memory of the victims of the war, the expulsion and the tyranny among the population of the city of Cuxhaven and our sponsored town of Schneidemühl 1939–1945." | |
Cuxhaven | Memorial plaque with a Silesian eagle on the EWE building, Rohdestr. 1 | 2001 | “This is where the former Reichsstrasse began. 6, now Bundesstr. 6 to Breslau 864 km, to Görlitz 683 km. " | |
Cuxhaven | Signpost Görlitz 680 km, Breslau 860 km | 1957, dismantled | ||
Delligsen | Memorial stone in front of the administration building and glass museum in Grünenplan | 1991 | “Over 1,300 Germans displaced from their homes from Silesia, East Prussia, Pomerania and the Sudetenland as well as refugees from Central Germany found refuge and a second home in Grünenplan after the Second World War. They and their descendants have played a major role in the development of our place. " | |
Delmenhorst | Signpost on the station forecourt | 1963 | “Over 700 years of German homeland. Königsberg 800 km, Marienburg 700 km, Wroclaw 620 km, Stettin 400 km, Danzig 670 km, Eger 420 km. " | |
Diepholz | Barnstorf cemetery , cross of honor for the expellees | 1950 | ||
Diepholz | District house , memorial stone of the sponsorship of the district of Grafschaft Diepholz for the district of Grimmen | 1954 | ||
Diepholz | Cemetery, Cross of the East | 1950 | “Our dead in the field and at home. The East Expellees 1939-1945. " | |
It's clear | Memorial stone, BdV | 2009 | “In memory of the displaced. Thanks to the people of Dinklar. As a reminder to the viewer. " | |
Dornum | Cemetery, memorial stone | 1993 | “The dead of home. In memory of the millions of dead in the lost homeland who lost their lives due to the effects of war. East Prussia, West Prussia, Danzig, Silesia, Pomerania. " | |
Egestorf | Luther monument in the old cemetery | "In memory of the 165,000 evangelicals displaced from the Sudetenland and all Germans who have their home in the east." | ||
Einbeck | Memorial plaque in the old town hall | 1999 | “Medieval Patschkau / Silesia. In memory of those who died at home and abroad, the victims of war, flight and displacement: RIP As a reminder to our descendants. In a peaceful effort to shape the future without forgetting its Silesian origin. In gratitude to our godfather town Einbeck and other places where we were welcomed after the expulsion from our unforgettable homeland Silesia in 1945/46. “ Paczków | |
Einbeck | Bell with a bell tower | 1990 | “This bell from St. Hedwig's Church in Schwammelwitz came to Einbeck in 1990 as a result of the expellees. MATTHEW, MARK, LUCAS, JOHANNES ORATE PRO NOBIS 1499. It rings for eternal peace and in memory of the expulsion. ” Trzeboszowice | |
Eldingen | War memorial at the manor park | "The expellees in the community of Eldingen their heroes who fell in World War 1939-45." | ||
Emden | Burgplatz, memorial with the coats of arms of East Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, West Prussia, Memel, Danzig, Sudetenland, Emden and East Frisia | 1985 | ||
Esens | Memorial stone | 2003 | "In memory of the flight and expulsion in 1945/46." | |
Fallingbostel | Memorial stone between Vogtei- and Bahnhofstraße | "The dead of the German east and the fallen of the war." | ||
Friedland (Lower Saxony) | Friedland Memorial | |||
Gartow | Commemorative plaque at the entrance to the honor grove of a facility owned by the German War Graves Commission | "The dead in the east." | ||
Gehrden | Lange Feldstrasse 8/10, memorial stone | 1986 | ||
Georgsmarienhütte | Oesede Monastery , memorial stone for Niederschwedeldorf | 1986 | “As a result of an unfortunate war, on March 5, 1946, 231 people, mostly women, children and older men, were expelled from their home in Niederschwedeldorf, County Glatz / Silesia. They were first accepted on March 13, 1946 in the Catholic elementary school in Kloster Oesede, which stood here until 1979. They all owe their solidarity during the transport to the teacher Miss Maria Briskorn. The peculiarity that almost half a village was recorded in one place led to the adoption of the sponsorship by the municipality of Kloster Oesede in 1962. Most of the population of the neighboring town of Oberschwedeldorf came to the community of Oesede , which took over the sponsorship in 1968. After the merger in 1970, both sponsorships were continued by the city of Georgsmarienhütte. This stone also stands for all other displaced persons and those uprooted by the war. " | |
Georgsmarienhütte | Displaced persons monument on the corner of Breslauer Weg and Königsberger Weg, sculpture of a refugee family | 1954 | “Our home will remain unforgettable. The German East, East Prussia, West Prussia, Danzig, Pomerania, Sudetenland, Silesia and the German settlement areas between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. " | |
Giesen | Cenotaph, cross base | 1951 | “The dead at home. The fallen hero. The missing and abducted. Loyal to the fatherland even in death. German to death. ”- Memorial stone (2007):“ In memory of all who gave their lives for peace and freedom after 1945. ” | |
Giesen | there, memorial stone | Day of German Unity 2010 | “To thank the Giesenern. You gave us a new home after escaping and displacement. Association of Expellees Giesen, Hasede, Ahrbergen, Emmerke. " | |
Glandorf | Memorial stone on Thielplatz | 2002 | “In memory of our unforgettable Silesian homeland, the parish of Weigelsdorf near Münsterberg, with the towns of Ober- and Niederkunzendorf, Weigelsdorf, Tschammerhof, Münchhof, Schöharte and Eichau, from which we were expelled in 1946. Glandorf, October 6, 2001. Sponsoring parish of the Weigelsdorf parish. “ Ostroszowice | |
Goldenstedt | Former school of the peasantry in Ambergen, memorial place German Homeland in the East , memorial stones for Brandenburg, Pomerania, West Prussia, East Prussia, Silesia, Sudetenland | Homeland Day 1996 | ||
Goldenstedt | there, memorial stones for Prökuls , Memel , Reichenstein in Silesia , Allenstein , Gröditzberg , Goldberg i. Silesia , Haynau , Liegnitz , Breslau , Waldenburg , Grafschaft Glatz , Lüben | 1983 | ||
Goslar | End of Breite Straße, memorial of the sponsored city of Brieg and its rural communities | 1952 | ||
Goslar | Area of the Kaiserpfalz Goslar , memorial of the expellees | 1955 | ||
Goslar | Robert-Koch-Strasse, Rübezahl monument | 1982 | ||
Grasberg | Memorial cross in the cemetery | 1952 | ||
Hambühren | Displaced persons monument in Ostlandstrasse. Wegsteine Danzig, Pomerania, Prussia, Posen, West Prussia, Sudetenland, Silesia | “In 1949 displaced people began to build a new home in Hambühren. Don't forget the dead. " | ||
Hamelin | Deisterfriedhof, displaced persons memorial, coat of arms stones for Brandenburg, Pomerania, Danzig, East Prussia, Baltic States, West Prussia, Posen, Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia, Sudetenland | |||
Hamelin | Main entrance to the Bürgergarten, memorial column for sponsorship Neumarkt in Silesia , 605 km. | |||
Hanover | Memorial cross at the Bemerode cemetery | 1953 | ||
Hanover | Coat of arms in the foyer of the state parliament building | 1962 | ||
Hanover | Memorial cross on the Kirchröder cemetery | |||
Hardegsen | Parish garden of St. Marien, replica of the wayside shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows from Schwedenberg near Klein Schnellendorf in the district of Falkenberg OS Korfantów | 1972 | ||
Helmstedt | Distance sign Reichsstraße 1 | |||
Hemmoor | Memorial cross in the cemetery | 1949 | ||
Herzberg am Harz | Domeyerpark, memorial stone district of Guhrau | 1956 | ||
Hessian Oldendorf | Ostfriedhof, memorial | |||
Hessian Oldendorf | Church tower of St. Bonifatius (Hessisch Oldendorf) , memorial | "1939-1945. In memory of our fallen and those who died during the expulsion, residents of the community of Tschirmkau, Leobschütz district of Upper Silesia. "-" 1939-1945. In honor of our 58 fallen and 45 victims of flight and displacement. The expellees from the community of Zinatal Kreis Leobschütz O / S. ”-“ 1939 +1946. In honor of our 55 fallen and our 85 victims of flight and displacement. The expellees from the community of Knispel Kr. Leobschütz, Upper Silesia. ”-“ Knispel - home, unforgettable home. 572 inhabitants in 1939. “ Baborów , Leobschütz district | ||
Heyersum | Mühlenberg on the B 1 , Cross of the East | 1961, 1990, 2006 | “All of Germany.” - “German East. German homeland. German style. Never forget that. " | |
Hildesheim | near the Gasthof Am Berghölzchen , memorial stone Lauban | |||
Hildesheim | there, memorial stone Neisse | |||
Hildesheim | Eichendorffhain, expellees memorial | 1962 | ||
Hitzacker | Memorial stone | 1958 | "Greetings from home! A warning to the youth! Thanks to the city of Hitzacker! The expellees. 8/24/58. " | |
Holzminden | Commemorative plaque at the memorial for those who fell in the war | “We do not know your graves, which are on the roads of your escape or under the ruins of the destroyed cities. We cannot come to you who have remained silent guardians in the lost homeland. But we are with you today and tomorrow and will be there all the time. " |
List I – W
Web links
Commons : Displacement monuments in Lower Saxony - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Confederation of Expellees: Remembrance sites, Lower Saxony (Achim – Hildesheim)
- Association of Expellees: Remembrance and Memorial Sites, Lower Saxony (Holzminden-Wunstorf)
Individual evidence
Remarks
- ↑ The memorial cross commemorates 30 displaced persons who arrived on December 22, 1946 after twelve days in the freight train, starved and almost frozen to death, and who died around Christmas or early 1947. Another 26 Silesians were laid to rest there a little later.
- ↑ As a German rooster I want to stand here, my crows should go east.
- ↑ The granite block under the sculpture comes from Lower Silesia.