Stumbling blocks in Gaggenau
The Stolpersteine in Gaggenau are special paving stones in sidewalks that are intended to commemorate the victims of the National Socialist dictatorship in the city of Gaggenau in the Baden-Württemberg district of Rastatt in Germany .
Stumbling blocks
The Stolpersteine are a project by the artist Gunter Demnig . These small memorial plaques are intended to commemorate the fate of the people who were murdered, deported , expelled or driven to suicide during National Socialism .
Stumbling blocks are cubic concrete blocks with an edge length of ten centimeters, on the top of which there is an individually labeled brass plate . As a rule, they are set into the pavement at the same level in front of the last freely chosen houses of the Nazi victims . There are now over 61,000 stones (as of July 2017) not only in Germany, but also in 21 other European countries. The Stolpersteine are the largest decentralized memorial in the world.
On October 7, 2009, the first stumbling blocks were laid in Gaggenau.
Note: The date under the respective picture indicates when the stone was laid.
Laying stumbling blocks
Hauptstrasse 101
Coordinates “Hauptstraße 101”
WOHNTE /NATHAN KAHN / JGHERE. 1878 ....
Hördener Strasse 5
Coordinates "Hördener Straße 5 in the Hörden district"
LIVED HERE / HANS MEIER / JG. 1922 / ARRESTED 1941 / MURDERED 1941 IN / MAUTHAUSEN
LIVED HERE / ZERLINE STENGEL / GEB. MAIER / JG. 1858 / DEPORTED 1943 / MURDERED IN / AUSCHWITZ
Landstrasse 34
Coordinates "Landstrasse 34 in the Hörden district"
LIVED HERE /THEODOR KÖHLER....
LIVED HERE / AUGUSTA STERN ....
HER LIVED / JULIE STERN ....
LUDWIG STERN / JG LIVED HERE . 1886 ....
Landstrasse 49
Coordinates "Landstrasse 49 in the Hörden district"
HER LIVED / EMILIE MAIER / GEB. LADENBURGER / JG. 1881 / DEPORTED 1940 / GURS / MURDERED IN / AUSCHWITZ
JULIUS MAIER LIVED HERE / JG. 1872 / DEPORTED 1940 / GURS / MURDERED IN / AUSCHWITZ
Murgtalstrasse 101
Coordinates "Murgtalstraße 101"
LIVED HERE / FRIEDA MEYERHOFF / GEB. LEHMANN / JG. 1880 / IMPROVEDLY DELAYED / 1938 MANNHEIM / DEPORTED 1940 / GURS / FLUCHT 1941 USA / SURVIVED
LIVED HERE / FRIEDRICH / MEYERHOFF / JG. 1917 / ESCAPE 1936 / USA / SURVIVED
/ GERTRUD / MEYERHOFF / JG lived here. 1917 / ESCAPE 1936 / USA / SURVIVED
LIVED HERE / DR. ISIDOR / MEYERHOFF / JG. 1875 / INFOLIOUSLY DELAYED / 1938 MANNHEIM / TOT 8/8/1940
The doctor Isidor Meyerhoff had the Villa Murgtalstraße 101 built during the First World War . After being mistreated during a home visit, Meyerhoff left the Murg Valley and moved with his family to Mannheim , where he died in 1940. His wife and children survived the Holocaust .
HERE LIVED / LIESELOTTE / MEYERHOFF / JG. 1908 / IMPROVEDLY DELAYED / 1938 MANNHEIM / DEPORTED 1940 / GURS / FLUCHT 1941 AUSTRALIA / SURVIVED
literature
- Joachim Rönneper : On my doorstep. “Stumbling blocks” by Gunter Demnig. A companion book . Arachne-Verlag, Gelsenkirchen 2010, ISBN 978-3-932005-40-4 .
Web links
- Project stumbling blocks of the secondary school Gaggenau
Individual evidence
- ↑ In #Turin (Italy) the 50,000th #Stolperstein in Europe was laid today! He is reminiscent of Eleonora Levi. #Demnig @_Stolpersteine_ on January 11, 2015 on Twitter.
- ↑ Andreas Nefzger: The trace layer. In: FAZ.net . February 7, 2014, accessed December 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Irene Schneid-Horn: " Stumbling blocks as a sign of concern and compassion " , in Badische Latest Nachrichten , January 29, 2017; accessed on September 5, 2017
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