List of evacuation monuments in Lower Saxony (I – W)
This list of displaced monuments in Lower Saxony (I – W) shows the displaced monuments in Lower Saxony's cities and communities from Isernhagen to Wunstorf.
List A – H
List I – W
image | place | location | year | description |
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Isernhagen | Memorial stone at St. Marien-Kirche Kircher farmers | 1951 | “Remember the homeland, those who fell for it and those missing in it. Central Association of Expelled Germans. Isernhagen 1951 " | |
Juist | Memorial plaque and memorial stones on the cemetery chapel | Memorial Day 1977 | “They came from the fire. They went through the water. They found a bank. According to Isaiah 43/2. Between 1945 and 1947, around 1250 displaced persons, mainly from Pomerania and East Prussia, found refuge in Juist. In the difficult years that followed, many of them died and rest in this cemetery. Those who live in peace on this island, who visit this island as guests: remember you and do not forget what a precious gift life and peace are. " | |
Kreiensen | Cemetery, plaque | 1958 | “In memory of the victims of both world wars 1914-1918 1939-1945. Kreiensen community Sponsor community Arnsdorf / Rsgb. with Steinseiffen. ”-“ Jannowitz and Kupferberg. ” Miłków (Podgórzyn) , Janowice Wielkie , Podgórzyn | |
Lahstedt | Südstraße at the Protestant church in Groß Lafferde | |||
Lamstedt | Memorial plaques next to the memorial for the fallen | |||
Langenhagen | Memorial plaque on the war memorial in Engelbostel | |||
Langenhagen | Memorial plaque on the town hall wall | 1960-1992 | Commemorative plaque depicting Germany in its borders from 1937 with the inscription “Unforgotten Heimat”, stolen in 1992 | |
Langenhagen | Memorial stone at the Elisabeth Church on Walsroder Straße | |||
Langeoog | German-Baltic memorial at the Langeoog dune cemetery | 1982 | ||
Lemwerder | Memorial stone at the cemetery entrance | 1987 | ||
Lingen (Ems) | new cemetery, memorial stone and tree of life, coats of arms of West Prussia, Pomerania, East Prussia, Silesia, Posen, Sudetenland | |||
Lohne (Oldenburg) | Displacement settlement Kettelerstraße / Mittelwalder Straße, memorial stone | 1980 | “Mittelwalde. Since 1952 Pate city of Lohne. " Międzylesie | |
Rewards | there, protective cloak Madonna | 1991 | ||
Luneburg | District administration courtyard, Eichenbrück memorial stone, sponsorship | 1983 | Wągrowiec , Kreis Wongrowitz , district Eichenbrueck | |
Luneburg | Ritterstrasse, bronze sculpture | 1987 | "Memory of East Prussia." | |
Luneburg | Old courtyard of the district administration; Lüneburg, Bleckede, Neuhaus and Königsberg | |||
Luneburg | Memorial stone in front of the building of the North German Cultural Works in Herderstrasse | "The dead of the great expulsion 1945–1956." | ||
Lünne | Memorial for displaced persons at St. Vitus in Plantlünne | |||
Mariental (Lower Saxony) | Transit camp memorial at the community center | 1997 | “In memory of the Mariental transit camp 1945–1947.” - “Never again violence, expulsion and injustice. Unity, law and freedom are our future. ”-“ Peace, faith, confidence, suffering, hunger, displacement, Wohlau, Stettin, Danzig, Oels. ” Mariental-Horst # Civil history | |
Melle | Memorial cross in Grönenberg Park | 1955 | ||
Melle | Memorial stone | 1965 | “The Regenwald district and its dead. Faithful to home. Faithful to the ancestors. September 16, 1965. “ Regenwalde district | |
Melle | Memorial stone to the entrance of Wellingholzhausen | 1984 | "Silesia, East Prussia, Pomerania" | |
Nienburg / Weser | signpost | "Berlin 337 km, Bartenstein 889 km, Domnau 922 km, zone border 132 km, Friedland 928 km, Schippenbeil 909 km, Kulm 691 km, Lähn am Bober 760 km, Danzig 728 km, Elbing 778 km." | ||
Nienburg | Area of the vocational schools of the district of Nienburg on the Berliner Ring, memorial stone | "The memory of the German East in 1953." | ||
Nienburg | there, memorial stone for East and West Prussia, Silesia, Danzig, Sudetenland, Warthegau, Posen, Pomerania, Berlin, Mark Brandenburg | |||
Nienburg | there, memorial stone | 1986 | “In memory of the Germans in Russia. 8/10/1986. " | |
Nienburg | East German Museum of Local History: 9 m 2 Ostland window with Marienburg (Ordensburg) , Breslauer Rathaus , Oder , Lausitzer Neisse , Küstrin , Frankfurt (Oder) , Danziger Krantor , Elbląg , Königsberg i. Pr. , Tilsit , Tannenberg monument , Giant Mountains , Upper Silesian collieries and St. Annaberg | |||
North (East Frisia) | Gnadenkirche Tidofeld | |||
Northeim | Cemetery, memorial to the displaced | |||
Nortmoor | Memorial stone on the cemetery forecourt | 1981 | “Memorial for the dead of the Silesian community Schnellewalde 1281–1981.” Szybowice | |
Ohlendorf (Hemmingen) | Memorial stone | 1953 | “To the victims of the 1939-1945 war. We were one in love for our homeland and gave it everything. " | |
Ohrum | Memorial stone at the northern entrance to the village | 1999 | “In memory of the 1946 expulsion from Heinzendorf and Werdeck, County of Glatz / Silesia. We thank you for the admission and commemorate all victims of the war and the expulsion from the German East. Far away true! 1999. " | |
Oldenburg (Oldenburg) | Park on Peterstrasse, Leobschützstein | 1951 | "Unforgettable German city in the east of Leobschütz." - "Danzig, Memel, Pomerania, Silesia, Sudetenland, East Prussia, West Prussia." - "1945." | |
Osnabrück | Memorial stone on the cemetery in Voxtrup | 2007 | “We REMEMBER the expulsion from Volpersdorf and Köpprich / Grafschaft Glatz - Silesia in 1946. THANK YOU for being here in the region in the most difficult time. MEMORIAL of all victims of war, violence and expulsion from the German East. Volpersdorfer Heimatgruppe, Voxtrup 2007, location of the Heimatgruppe. “ Wolibórz , Przygórze | |
Osnabrück | Hasetorwall, memorial of the German East, medieval defense tower | 1954 | ETERNAL GERMAN EAST | |
Osterholz-Scharmbeck | City park on Lindenstrasse, home stele with the eastern areas | 1962 | ||
Osterode am Harz | Inner city ring at the corner of Bahnhofstrasse, milestone | 1985 | “862 km to Osterode – East Prussia.” Ostróda | |
Osterode | Memorial plaque on the wall of St. Aegidien (Osterode) | “Our brothers and sisters who are resting in the cemeteries of our East German homeland and who have been killed on the run. Sisters in memory. Christ says: I live and you should also live. The country teams united in the Federation of Expelled Germans. " | ||
Otterndorf | Cemetery, Cross of the German East | in the stone base of the wooden cross: "The dead of our Eastern homeland 1949." | ||
Otterndorf | District building, memorial stone | 1975 | “Labiau district, East Prussia. In memory of our homeland, the district community of Labiau 1975. “ District of Labiau | |
Torment | Memorial stone for the Lamsdorf internment camp near the district house | 1960 | “The victims of the Falkenberg district through war, expulsion, and the Lamsdorf camp. The Peine district. “ Landkreis Falkenberg OS | |
Torment | Memorial stone at the cemetery chapel in Essinghausen | 1986 | ||
Torment | Memorial stone on the old cemetery in Vöhrum | |||
Rastede | Bog oak memorial Displaced Persons by Jochen Kusber on the site of the former camp for refugees and displaced persons in Hahn-Lehmden | 2010 | ||
Rinteln | Seetorfriedhof, memorial cross | 1955 | Coats of arms of Pomerania, West Prussia, Brandenburg and Upper Silesia | |
Ronnenberg | Memorial stone in a green area | 1953 | "The unforgettable homeland and its victims in memory." | |
Rotenburg (Wümme) | Site of the Heimatbund Wümme, memorial stone with Stettin, Danzig, Breslau and Königsberg | 1986 | ||
Rotenburg | Area of the district house, memorial stone 30 years of sponsorship in the district of Angerburg | 1984 | ||
Rössing (Nordstemmen) | Memorial stone Pomerania, East Prussia, Silesia | 1997 | ||
Salzgitter | Memorial for expellees in Thiede | 1950 | ||
Scheeßel | Memorial stone Silesia on Seidorfer Straße | 1986 | ||
Schöningen | Memorial column on the market, coat of arms of Berlin , 6 Central and East German coats of arms | "Berlin should always remain the capital 17.6.1959." - "Don't forget the German East!" | ||
Schulenburg (Pattensen) | Sponsorship stone; Bärndorf, Neudorf, Södrich | “40 years of sponsorship at Schulenburg Fischbach / Rsgb. 1951–1991. “ Karpniki , Mysłakowice | ||
Seesen | Wilhelmsplatz | 1994 | Memorial stone with coats of arms of Silesia, Pomerania, East Prussia | |
Sibbesse | Memorial stone in Hönze | 1989 | “In memory of 14 million East German expellees 1949–1989. Federation of Displaced Persons. BdV " | |
Morals | Memorial stone at the house of clubs and history | 2010 | “In memory of refugees and displaced persons. Börde Sittensen. " | |
Jump | Town hall wall, memorial plaque | 1962 | “To commemorate the victims of the expulsion from their Silesian homeland Militsch-Trachenberg , the dead who remained there, the fallen and missing. Sponsorship group Springe and home district community Militsch-Trachenberg 1962. “ Landkreis Militsch , Żmigród | |
Jump | Guide from Helmut Benna | "Tilsit 1033 km, Danzig 777 km, Stettin 445 km, Berlin 320 km, Wroclaw 631 km, Dresden 420 km." | ||
Stade | Wall systems on the Elbe | Goldaper Memorial 1964 Moose sculpture 1987 |
Gołdap | |
Stadtoldendorf | Memorial plaque on the town hall | 1955 | Heinrich Lersch | |
Strackholt | At the Hohen Thee, reminder and memorial plaque | 2008 | “As a reminder and reminder. On February 24, 1946, around 1,000 residents were expelled from Schlegel, Glatz / Lower Silesia, and robbed of their homes. On March 5, 1946, they arrived in Aurich / East Frisia and were distributed to the East Frisian towns. Ten families came to Strackholt, and later many others who found modest accommodation here. Some settled down and found a new home, even a second home. This is to thank the residents of Strackholt, but also to remind them of their lost homeland in Silesia. Far but true. Home Community Schlegel 1980 eV " Słupiec (Nowa Ruda) | |
Suhlendorf | Cemetery, Wollsteiner Lapidarium | 2007 | Wolsztyn , Wollstein District | |
Syke | Park at the mill pond | Three memorial stones: German East and eight coats of arms | ||
Syke | Memorial stone in the Wehlau district | |||
Uelzen | Memorial stone in front of the old parish office in Veerßen | |||
Uelzen | Memorial stone in the cemetery with a large burial ground for displaced persons | 1984 | ||
Vechta | Memorial at the ev.-luth. Church of the Resurrection | 1968 | “Memorial: East German Homeland; Soldiers; Missing people, abducted people. " | |
Verden | Bürgerpark, memorial for the German East | 1955 |
NEVER LOST, ALWAYS THINK OF IT Coats of arms of Brandenburg, Danzig, Silesia, East Prussia, West Prussia, Pomerania and the Sudetenland |
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Wallenhorst | Memorial stone in Rulle | 1996 | "To the victims of the war, the flight and the expulsion of the dioceses of Breslau, Danzig, Warmia, the prelature Schneidemühl, the vicariates general Glatz and Branitz and the Sudetenland." | |
Walsrode | Main entrance to the cemetery, memorial stone | 1950 | ||
Whet | graveyard | Hochkreuz (1952), replaced by a memorial stone (1971) | ||
Wilhelmshaven | Ehrenfriedhof am Stadtpark, Neuengrodener Strasse, memorial stone | 1967 | “They are safe on the Brahe and Vistula in their native soil, have fallen innocent in war and expulsion through blind delusion, or they sleep far from their home, against eternal tomorrow. Lord of life and death, give grace and home to all of us. The Bydgoszcz dead. ” Bydgoszcz , Bydgoszcz Blood Sunday | |
Wilhelmshaven | Bronze sculpture opposite the Cityhaus on Bismarckstrasse | 1982 | “ Ferdinand Lepcke . The bow-tensioner . The grateful Brombergers. 1910 her godfather city 1982. " | |
Wilhelmshaven | Memorial stone opposite the Kopperhörner mill in Brommygrün on Mühlenweg | 1983 | "Meeting place for the expellees." - "Landsmannschaft der Oberschlesier, Landsmannschaft Silesia, Pomeranian Landsmannschaft, Landsmannschaft East Prussia, Landsmannschaft West Prussia and Danzig." | |
Winsen (Aller) | Memorial stone under the oak grove in front of the cemetery | 1987 | "In memory of the homeland of the German expellees in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe as well as in memory of their victims and sufferings from the occasion of flight and displacement." | |
Winsen (Luhe) | Rote-Kreuz-Straße 6, memorial stone with coats of arms of East Prussia, Schloßberg and Ebenrode | "Remember the German areas in the east with the districts of Schloßberg (Pillkallen), Ebenrode (Stallupönen) in East Prussia." Dobrowolsk , Nesterow | ||
Wohldenberg Castle | Memorial cross | 1979 | "In commemoration of the outbreak of World War II in Gdansk on September 1st, 1939, the Gdansk Catholics who were expelled from their homeland 40 years later erected this Memorial of Peace for their dead as a symbol of reconciliation between the peoples." | |
Wolfenbüttel | Memorial stone at the northern entrance to Halchter | 2000 | "We remember! The escape, deportation and expulsion of Germans from their homeland in the east. The victims are accusing! BdV Halchter. " | |
Wolfenbüttel | 5 m high wayside shrine on Rosenwall, memorial for displaced persons | 1950/2003 | ||
Wolfenbüttel | Landeshuter Platz, displaced persons memorial, 50 years sponsorship of the Landeshut | Good Friday 1953 Relief stone 2002 |
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Wolfenbüttel | there, distance stone with Brandenburg Gate | 1959 | Berlin 195 km, Wroclaw 455 km, state hat 404 km | |
Wolfsburg | Memorial on the Klieversberg . | 1953 | Memorial for the victims of the two world wars with a 14 meter high obelisk. Several panels remind of the fate of the German expellees from different regions. | |
Wolfsburg-Fallersleben | Memorial in the castle park | |||
Wunstorf | ev.-luth. Petruskirche in Steinhude , memorial of the Elchniederung district community | 1991 | ||
Wunstorf | Corner of Blumenauer Strasse / Wilhelm-Busch-Strasse, memorial plaque |
"Oststadt Wunstorf. German compatriots were expelled from Silesia, East Prussia, West Prussia, Pomerania, Brandenburg, the Sudetenland, etc. as a result of the Second World War. Here on Wilhelm-Busch-Straße, the non-profit building association Wunstorf eG continued building rental houses in 1952 to alleviate the unbearable housing shortage. This new district was created in the east of the city with 287 apartments. " |
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
- ^ Rolf Volkmann, Helga Volkmann: The Mariental Refugee Camp (1945-1947) and the transports of expellees from Silesia (1946-1947): a contribution to the post-war history of the Mariental community and the Helmstedt district . 1997; 2nd edition 1998.
- ^ East German Local History Museum Nienburg
- ↑ Ostdeutsche Heimatsammlungen (Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe)
- ↑ Rinteln (Seetorfriedhof), district of Schaumburg, Lower Saxony (online project fallen memorials)
- ↑ Benna signpost has been set up again (HAZ 2013)