Prussian Column (Ubstadt)

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The Prussian Column is a small memorial in Ubstadt-Weiher in the Karlsruhe district and commemorates four fallen soldiers : an officer and three soldiers from the crew . All four belonged to the Royal Prussian Uhlan Regiment No. 8 established in 1812 and fell on June 23, 1849 in a battle near Ubstadt as part of the fight against the " Baden Revolution ".

The war memorial erected by the regiment in early May 1850 is outside in a field near Ubstadt.

To the left of the memorial is an information board for the Ubstadt-Weiher Heimatverein . The board explains the fighting. - No information is given about the time and circumstances of the establishment (1850, by the 8th Uhlan Regiment, see above) of the “Prussian Column”.

The actual column with a classic Attic base in the Roman style has a smooth (not fluted ) shaft that breaks off at the top and is therefore without a capital .

Sans serif Latin letters that appear very “modern” (because unusual for the 19th century) are written on the front (front) of the base

In the battle on June 23, 1849
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the Prussians fell here for the fatherland . Ulan. Regt. No. 8
people. EMIL VON BERLEPSCH
Ulan FRANZ HUBERT GREVEN
Ulan ANTON HILZ
Ulan JOH. PETER ADAMS

Honor their memory

On the pedestal made of a different stone is written in typical “broken” (“German”) script

Battle near Ubstadt
the 23rd of June [ the rest is illegible, probably the year 1849 follows]

About the origin of the three fallen Lancers , the regiment in 1862 published history of the Uhlan Regiment is No. 8 Information (page 142): Ulan Johann Peter Adams came from Uerzig (today in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate ) in the Prussian administrative district of Trier in the Rhine province ; Franz Hubert Greven from Schleibach (-> see Ofden ) in the administrative district of Aachen , also in the Rhine province and Anton W ilz (that's the name in the regimental history, on the Prussian column he is written as Anton H ilz ) from Neu-Forweiler (today a district of Saarlouis in Saarland, see Neuforweiler ) in the then administrative district of Trier.

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  1. ↑ For this regiment of the Prussian Army see Ulanen-Regiment "Graf zu Dohna" (East Prussian) No. 8 , UR 8 for short , in GenWiki .
  2. ↑ Georg Hoffmeister: History of the East Prussian Uhlan Regiment . AW Hahn, 1862, p. 99 ( books.google.com ): “[…] the regiment […] at the beginning of May 1850 brought the beautiful idea to put a memorial to the fallen in 1849 […] on the Bergstrasse between Ubstadt and Bruchsal into a reality [ ...] "
  3. ↑ Georg Hoffmeister: History of the East Prussian Uhlan Regiment . AW Hahn, 1862, p. 142 ( books.google.com ).

Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 8.2 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 20.7 ″  E