Soviet memorial (Stralsund)

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The Soviet Memorial in Stralsund (2012)
Rows of graves in the cemetery (2006)

The Soviet War Memorial is a war cemetery on the Neuer Markt in Stralsund . It contains grave sites for soldiers and members of the Red Army and a memorial with a relief on which a Red Army soldier and a civilian shake hands.

history

On the area in front of the north transept of St. Mary's Church there were still a few smaller houses until the 19th century. In the middle of the 19th century, the city representatives decided to transform the site into a green area. The buildings were therefore torn down between 1868 and 1871.

After the Second World War, Stralsund was initially part of the Soviet occupation zone . The Soviet Army entered the city on May 1, 1945 with almost no fighting. On July 5, 1945, the Mayor of Stralsund announced: “The military commandant of Stralsund ordered the construction of a heroes' cemetery. He has designated the tree-lined part of the Neuer Markt to the north in front of the church as the space for this. ”At a council meeting on May 6, 1947, the costs were estimated at“ 4000 Reichsmarks only for carrying out the necessary work, without material costs ” August 31, 1945 came to a total of 55,410 Reichsmarks.

At the cemetery the fallen or the city district Stralsund deceased members of the Soviet Army were buried, even reburials of companies located outside of the cemetery graves were made, the Council of the city of Stralsund, Abt was. Green spaces, cemetery and burials 'in a letter dated March 15, 1957 to the' Dept. Local economy 'known. A total of 76 people were buried here.

The rows of graves were laid out directly in front of the Marienkirche. Initially there was also a portal with four columns in front of the monument. It had Russian lettering above the entrance

СЛАВА ГЕРОЯМ
ПАВШИМ ЗА СОВЕТСКУЮ РОДИНУ

(German: Glory to the heroes who fell for the Soviet homeland).

The portal was removed when the memorial was redesigned in 1967 based on plans by Hartmut Olejnik . At the same time, an obelisk made of red granite was erected in the middle of the complex, with a bronze relief on it facing the Neuer Markt. It shows a Red Army soldier's handshake with a civilian. The relief was designed by Johannes Friedrich Rogge from Dresden . A state coat of arms of the Soviet Union is attached to the top of the monument . In 1977 the weather- damaged sandstone slabs were replaced by granite slabs.

There is a large granite slab in front of the monument. The inscription is no longer legible.

The monument with its graves is located in the core area of ​​the city ​​area recognized by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage site of the “ historic old towns of Stralsund and Wismar ”. It is entered in the list of architectural monuments in Stralsund with the number 607.

For many years there has been a discussion about relocating or redesigning the plant.

literature

  • Friederike Thomas, Dietmar Volksdorf: The old town island Stralsund - Illustrated list of monuments. The architectural monuments of the old town in text and images. Edited by the building authority of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund. Self-published, Stralsund 1999, DNB 987697757 , p. 58.
  • Frank Schumann : Monuments of Liberation: Traces of the Red Army in Germany. New Life, 2020, ISBN 978-3-355-01890-6 .

Web links

Commons : Soviet Memorial Stralsund  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d A future for the Soviet memorial in Stralsund?  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage of the University of Greifswald, October 29, 2009, accessed on August 24, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / politischememoriale.uni-greifswald.de  
  2. ^ Mathias Kupke: Redesign of the new market in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund. Thesis. 2006, p. 12. (PDF; 48.6 MB)
  3. ^ Jörg Matuschat: Stralsund from A to Z. p. 39.
  4. ↑ Message from the Hanseatic City of Stralsund on the Open Monument Day 2013  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stralsund.de  
  5. ↑ Stralsund Church: Monument in the way

Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′ 37.7 "  N , 13 ° 5 ′ 17.5"  E