Place of the Invisible Memorial
The place of the invisible memorial is the forecourt of the Saarbrücken Castle . It was inaugurated in Saarbrücken in 1993 .
The concept of an invisible memorial goes back to an initiative of the art professor Jochen Gerz and several students who, between April 1990 and May 1993, initially secretly and illegally began to carve the names of Jewish cemeteries into the cobblestones of the Schlossplatz of Saarbrücken Castle and then to use them the lettering down, to be reinserted into the existing plaster. They chose the forecourt of the palace because a Gestapo control center was there during the Nazi era .
The idea was subsequently taken up by the Saarbrücken City Association, which decided to build such a monument in August 1991. A total of 2146 place names of Jewish cemeteries, which had existed up to 1933, were milled into the dark cobblestones of the central strip of the Schlossplatz and sunk into the ground.
The memorial was opened to the public on May 23, 1993 and since then it has only been recognizable by the inconspicuously attached signs for the place of the invisible memorial . In this way the suppression of history is to be symbolized.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 49.7 " N , 6 ° 59 ′ 29.6" E