List of Anton Günther memorial stones

First stone erected in honor of the poet's 60th birthday in the birthplace of Gottesgab

Anton-Günther-memorials are in honor of the People's poet Anton Günther erected (1876-1937) monuments .

The first memorial stone was the one inaugurated on the occasion of Anton Günther's 60th birthday, on the market square in his birthplace God's gift ( Boží Dar in Czech ). Between 1937 and 1942 the Erzgebirgsverein erected a large number of memorial stones, many of which were removed on the Czech side after the expulsion of the German-Bohemian population , many of which were lost.

listing

Except for the stone in Günther's birthplace, all of the following were erected after his death. The majority were rebuilt or rebuilt after 1990, primarily in the Ore Mountains and Vogtland, but also in other parts of Germany as well as in Austria and the Czech Republic.

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Illustration	place	country	Location	Story / remarks
	Aichach	Germany	in front of the Aichach City Museum, Schulstr. 2 48 ° 27 ′ 31 ″ N, 11 ° 8 ′ 1 ″ E	Inaugurated on November 5, 1978.
	Altenberg	Germany	Zinnwalder Strasse 50 ° 45 ′ 11 ″ N, 13 ° 45 ′ 31 ″ E	Inaugurated on April 26, 1943.
	Augsburg-Göggingen	Germany	Cemetery 48 ° 20 ′ 45 ″ N, 10 ° 52 ′ 5 ″ E Indication inaccurate: only for the cemetery	The main memorial stone of the “Memorial of the Neudeker ” was inaugurated on August 1, 1954 and expanded on September 11, 1981 to include the smaller memorial stone for the poets of the Ore Mountains Hans Soph and Anton Günther.
	Boží Dar (God's gift)	Czech Republic	Markt 50 ° 24 ′ 39 ″ N, 12 ° 55 ′ 19 ″ E	The monument is the only one erected during Anton Günther's lifetime and was inaugurated on June 5, 1936. The city of Gottesgab honored its well-known citizen on his 60th birthday. After the expulsion of the German-Bohemian population at the end of World War II, it was destroyed in 1945. After the political change, the Boží Dar municipal administration and the community of heirs agreed on the reconstruction in 1990, which was largely financed by the Schwarzenberg branch association of the Erzgebirge. On June 1, 1991, the memorial was inaugurated on the occasion of Anton Günther's 115th birthday. The bronze plaque attached to the stone is the original from 1936, which appeared again in 1990 and was considered lost after 1945.
	Bublava (Schwaderbach)	Czech Republic	50 ° 22 '16 "N, 12 ° 30' 14" E	Erected in 1938, destroyed after 1945. The memorial stone was opposite the boys' school.
	Burgstädt	Germany	in Wettinhain, park in Burgstädt 50 ° 54 ′ 57 ″ N, 12 ° 49 ′ 2 ″ E	Inaugurated on May 29, 1938.
	Chemnitz-Euba	Germany	Corner of Eubaer Straße / Hauptstraße 50 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ N, 13 ° 1 ′ 18 ″ E	Inaugurated unknown, re-inauguration: June 15, 2014.
	Chemnitz-Harthau	Germany	Annaberger Strasse 463 50 ° 46 ′ 45 ″ N, 12 ° 55 ′ 33 ″ E	Inaugurated on June 18, 1938.
	Chemnitz ( Zeisigwald )	Germany	50 ° 50 ′ 36 "N, 13 ° 0 ′ 0" E	Inaugurated on April 24, 1938.
	Deutschneudorf	Germany	Salzweg 50 ° 36 ′ 28 ″ N, 13 ° 27 ′ 26 ″ E	The stone was erected on the initiative of Bruno Rochlitzer (1910–2001), an honorary member of the Erzgebirgszweigverein Deutschneudorf, who, like Günther, came from the Bohemian Ore Mountains and was inaugurated on July 15, 1999. It is a station on the Glockenwanderweg . It bears the inscription: Anton Günther 1876–1937, poet and singer of the Ore Mountains.
	Diekholzen	Germany	Coordinates are missing! Help!	Inaugurated on March 15, 1984.
	Donaueschingen	Germany	Coordinates are missing! Help!	Inaugurated on March 26, 1977.
	Loft of honor	Germany	Wettinplatz 50 ° 27 ′ 28 ″ N, 12 ° 50 ′ 40 ″ E	The monument was inaugurated in 1996.
	Eppendorf	Germany	Gersberg Forest 50 ° 48 ′ 24 ″ N, 13 ° 12 ′ 49 ″ E	The memorial stone was erected between 1937 and 1939 at an unspecified time. The bronze plaque attached to it was stolen in the late 1950s. In the local history it is noted that this was found again by chance, but disappeared again a short time later. In the meantime, a wooden plaque has been made as a substitute. In 1992 the original plaque was found again, of which the local history association made a duplicate and affixed it to the stone.
	Frammersbach	Germany	Coordinates are missing! Help!	Inaugurated on June 22, 1974.
	Freden	Germany	Coordinates are missing! Help!	Inaugurated on May 14, 1977.
	Geising	Germany	Cabbage dome 50 ° 44 ′ 50 ″ N, 13 ° 47 ′ 45 ″ E	At the end of the 1950s, the relief, which had been in the possession of the then Erzgebirgszweigverein since 1938, was attached to the stone that had previously been used for other purposes.
	Geyer	Germany	50 ° 37 ′ 38 "N, 12 ° 54 ′ 33" E	Inauguration on June 8, 1940.
	Gornsdorf	Germany	Goethehain 50 ° 42 ′ 17 ″ N, 12 ° 53 ′ 19 ″ E	Inauguration on October 19, 2003.
	Grünberg	Germany	50 ° 49 ′ 38 "N, 13 ° 5 ′ 32" E	Inauguration on June 8, 1940.
	Hohenstein-Ernstthal	Germany	Pfaffenberg park 50 ° 48 ′ 13 ″ N, 12 ° 42 ′ 57 ″ E	Inaugurated on April 14, 2001.
	Hora Svaté Kateřiny (Sankt Katharinaberg)	Czech Republic	Růžový vrch 50 ° 36 ′ 12 ″ N, 13 ° 26 ′ 33 ″ E	Inauguration in 1938, new inauguration on June 17, 2006.
	Johanngeorgenstadt	Germany	Pferdegöpel 50 ° 25 ′ 51 ″ N, 12 ° 42 ′ 35 ″ E	Initiation September 16, 1995. Originally, this with an immediately adjacent platziertem memorial stone for Hans Soph on the Anton Günther height ( 50 ° 25 '29.76 "  N , 12 ° 43' 28.07"  O ) , a dedicated Günthers named elevation of a former mining dump west of the old town. In 2011 the stones were moved to the current location.
	Johanngeorgenstadt	Germany	50 ° 25 ′ 55 "N, 12 ° 41 ′ 33" E	Inaugurated on August 30, 1996. This memorial stone is a thank you from the North Region of the Erzgebirge Association for the "Am Schwefelbach" guesthouse. Anton Günther's grandson, Anton Günther-Lehmann, was present at the unveiling of the memorial stone.
	Karlstein am Main	Germany	Coordinates are missing! Help!	Inaugurated on September 7, 1969.
	Kirchberg (Saxony)	Germany	Borberg 50 ° 37 ′ 32 "N, 12 ° 30 ′ 51" E	For the 130th birthday of the local poet in 2007, the Erzgebirgszweigverein Kirchberg donated a memorial plaque with a picture relief on the Borberg plateau near Zwickau in the immediate vicinity of the local Anton-Günther-Berghaus, which was built in December 1938 by the Erzgebirgsverein.
	Klosterneuburg	Austria	Sudetendeutscher Platz 48 ° 17 ′ 58 ″ N, 16 ° 19 ′ 26 ″ E	Inaugurated on May 30, 1976.
	Kronberg im Taunus	Germany	Diebsweg 50 ° 11 ′ 37 ″ N, 8 ° 30 ′ 18 ″ E	Inaugurated on July 16, 1969. Nearby there is a plaque from the inhabitants of the Schmiedeberg community (today: Kovářská) in the Bohemian Ore Mountains.
	Seiffen / Erzgeb.	Germany	Reicheltberg 50 ° 38 ′ 33 ″ N, 13 ° 26 ′ 44 ″ E	This memorial stone, inaugurated in July 1995, is maintained by the Anton Günther Choir Seiffen, a 165-year-old male choir that maintains the folk poet's songs. Every year there is a small concert on site.
	Limbach-Oberfrohna	Germany	City park / zoo 50 ° 51 ′ 9 ″ N, 12 ° 45 ′ 5 ″ E	The Limbach Erzgebirgszweigverein erected a memorial in the city park in November 1938. A wooden plaque read "Whoever loves his Hamit, loves a be a people". You can no longer recognize the location. Now there are animal enclosures at the Limbach-Oberfrohna zoo .
	Loessnitz	Germany	50 ° 36 ′ 40 "N, 12 ° 46 ′ 45" E	Inaugurated April 2018
	Loessnitz	Germany	Dreihansener Strasse 50 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ N, 12 ° 44 ′ 47 ″ E	Inaugurated on April 29, 2018 (81st anniversary of Anton Günther's death) on private property in Dreihansner Straße in Lößnitz, in the Dreihansen district . The stone is within earshot of the Lößnitz bronze carillon, from which songs by the local poet can also be heard.
	Mulda / Sa.	Germany	50 ° 48 ′ 34 "N, 13 ° 24 ′ 53" E	Inaugurated on September 11, 1938.
	Oberwiesenthal	Germany	Museum Wiesenthaler K3 50 ° 25 ′ 9 ″ N, 12 ° 58 ′ 7 ″ E	Inaugurated on July 29, 1995.
	Oederan	Germany	50 ° 51 '43 "N, 13 ° 10' 50" E	Inaugurated in 1942.
	Offenhausen	Austria	Osterberg coordinates are missing! Help.	Honor plaque on the Osterberg memorial, inaugurated on September 15, 1968.
	Olbernhau	Germany	Rübenauer Weg 50 ° 38 ′ 56 ″ N, 13 ° 20 ′ 28 ″ E	Inaugurated on June 5, 1937. The memorial is located at a lookout point.
	Pohraniční (Reizenhain)	Czech Republic	Beech corner 50 ° 33 ′ 31 ″ N, 13 ° 14 ′ 9 ″ E	The seating group "Am Bucheneck" was set up with seats and stone steles in spring 1937 on the initiative of the local poet Erwin Schwarz. After Günther's suicide, the Reizenhain tourist office decided to expand the recently completed space to the Anton Günther monument. After the German-Bohemian population was driven out, the steles were overturned and the place fell into disrepair. On June 7, 2014, the volunteer-work restored square including the memorial stone was ceremonially inaugurated.
	Quick look	Germany	50 ° 31 '40 "N, 12 ° 50' 38" E	Inaugurated in September 1937. At the top of Anton-Günther-Straße.
	Reitzenhain	Germany	Reissigmühle 50 ° 32 '54 "N, 13 ° 13' 24" O	Inaugurated in 1937.
	Rübenau	Germany	50 ° 35 ′ 52 "N, 13 ° 18 ′ 9" E	Erected in September 1937. In honor of Anton Günther, the village square was renamed Anton-Günther-Platz. The monument was made of wood and has not been preserved. The location of the board was next to the inn "Weißer Hirsch".
	Schindelbach	Germany	Lower town exit opposite the memorial plaque of the Schindelbachmühle 50 ° 36 ′ 25 ″ N, 13 ° 7 ′ 44 ″ E	Inauguration on May 11, 1938.
	Schneeberg	Germany	Keilberg 50 ° 36 ′ 49 ″ N, 12 ° 37 ′ 49 ″ E	Erected by the EZV Schneeberg, inauguration on September 17, 2011.
	Sigmaringen	Germany	Anton-Günther-Strasse 48 ° 5 ′ 17 ″ N, 9 ° 13 ′ 56 ″ E	The memorial stone was inaugurated by the Association of Expellees on the occasion of Anton Günther's 100th birthday on June 5, 1976 .
	Stollberg / Erzgeb.	Germany	50 ° 41 ′ 47 "N, 12 ° 47 ′ 28" E	Inaugurated on August 16, 1996.
	Vejprty (Weipert)	Czech Republic	50 ° 30 ′ 33 ″ N, 13 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ E	The Günther-Ruh memorial, donated by the Weipert entrepreneur Karl Walter Schmidl and consecrated on July 3, 1938, was destroyed in 1945 and was no longer found. In 2010, a Bärenstein resident discovered the remains of the former memorial after years of searching. The newly founded Verein Denkmalpflege Weipert eV restored and refurbished the memorial stone and its surroundings in the following years; on July 3, 2013, Günther-Ruh was solemnly rededicated with the participation of 600 guests.
	Waldkraiburg	Germany	Coordinates are missing! Help.	Inaugurated on July 1, 1973.
	Zschopau	Germany	Alte Marienberger Strasse 50 ° 44 ′ 36 ″ N, 13 ° 4 ′ 7 ″ E	The “Anton Günther Platz” monument was inaugurated on June 18, 1938. It bears a wooden relief set in stone masonry. The original was replaced by a carved duplicate in 1998. After the weather damage showed, it was restored in 2015.
	Zwönitz	Germany	NSG Vordere Aue 50 ° 37 ′ 22 ″ N, 12 ° 46 ′ 52 ″ E	Inaugurated on June 8, 1991.

literature

• Alexander Böhm: Anton Günther memorial stones. From Aichach to Zwönitz. Heimatland publishing house: Chemnitz 2016. ISBN 978-3-910186-94-1

Individual evidence

1. ^ Memorials and memorials Bavaria - Abensberg - Lauf-Heuchling. (PDF) Federation of Displaced Persons, p. 9 , accessed on May 16, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Honor for Anton Günther . In: Förderverein Esche-Museum eV and Heimatverein Limbach-Oberfrohna eV (Hrsg.): Messages . No. 14, December 2013, p. 2–3 ( tu-chemnitz.de [PDF; accessed on May 18, 2016]). tu-chemnitz.de ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Anton Günther memorial stone from Eppendorf. In: Neunerlei - Juergens web page. Jürgen Claußner, March 2013, accessed on May 17, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Alexander Böhm: Anton Günther Memorial Stones , Verlag Heimatland Sachsen e. K. Chemnitz, Chemnitz, 2016; ISBN 978-3-910186-94-1 , p. 60
5. ↑ Alexander Böhm: Anton Günther Memorial Stones , Verlag Heimatland Sachsen e. K. Chemnitz, Chemnitz, 2016; ISBN 978-3-910186-94-1 , p. 78
6. ↑ Article in the "Freie Presse", local edition Aue of May 2, 2018, accessed online on May 16, 2018
7. ↑ Anton Günther memorial stone in Böhmisch Reizenhain rebuilt . In: Ulrich Möckel (Hrsg.): The border commuter - information from the Bohemian Ore Mountains . 37th edition, July 2014, p. 3–4 ( tu-chemnitz.de [PDF; accessed on May 16, 2016]).
8. ^ Anton-Günther-Strasse. Name reminds of poet . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from January 2, 2008.
9. ↑ A small association creates what nobody believed in anymore . In: Ulrich Möckel (Hrsg.): The border commuter - information from the Bohemian Ore Mountains . 29th edition, August 2013, p. 6–7 ( tu-chemnitz.de [PDF; accessed on May 18, 2016]).
10. ↑ The old relief shines like new. (No longer available online.) In: BLICK Advertising Gazette. November 28, 2015, archived from the original on May 17, 2016 ; accessed on May 17, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

Commons : Monuments and memorials to Anton Günther  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Anton Günther memorial stones on the website of the heirs of Anton Günther

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