Memorial to the Victims of National Socialism (Passau)
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The memorial for the victims of National Socialism is a memorial on the Passau Inn promenade in the old town of Passau . The memorial was created by the Austrian artist Wolfgang Kirchmayer .
composition
The memorial consists of a seven-meter-high lattice tower made of rusty steel and a granite cube that is placed about five meters in front of the memorial. The smoothly polished granite block is labeled on the top and front. In addition, the ensemble is located on unpolished floor slabs made of gray granite.
On the top of the granite cube in front of the steel monument, a text by Wolfgang Kirchmayer can be read:
- In the future
- is the
- Past latent
- Every person
- has the freedom
- to stand up against evil
- That gives me hope
On the front of the cube there is a dedication from the city of Passau:
- The victims
- the National Socialist
- Tyranny
- The citizens of the city of Passau
- 1996
history
The erection of a memorial for the victims of the Nazi era has a long history in the city of Passau. The Passau city council decided to build such a monument back in 1947, but it was not implemented. Above all, no agreement could be reached on one location. The project was not taken up again until 1983 - not least on the initiative of the writer Anna Rosmus , who dealt with the Nazi history of her hometown Passau. On November 10, 1996, the memorial was finally erected at a central location in the old town not far from the Inn River .
The erection of the memorial was accompanied by the publication of a written work which, in addition to the history of the origin of the memorial, also includes an article by the historian Peter Steinbach (“Effort of Remembrance”) and a contribution by the Passau author Stefan Rammer (“Aspects of Jewish Life in Passau”) .
literature
- Stefan Rammer (Eds.), Peter Steinbach, Herbert W. Wurster: Memorial for the Victims of National Socialism: Documentation and Aspects of the History of the "Third Reich" in Passau . Passau 1996. 154 pages. dnb data set
- Claudia Knobloch: Passau stories: art in public space . In: Passauer Stadtmagazin [PASTA] from December / January 2008/2009 (pp. 6–7)
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Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '21.8 " N , 13 ° 27' 48.1" E