Völkerschlachtdenkmal (Weißandt-Gölzau)

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The Völkerschlachtdenkmal von Weißandt-Gölzau is a memorial stone in the city of Southern Anhalt in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district in Saxony-Anhalt . The small monument is under monument protection and is registered in the monument register with registration number 094 70940 as a monument .

history

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in 1913, simple memorial stones were created in numerous villages in the near and far surrounding areas, which often only bear the year of the decisive battle of the Wars of Liberation . Such a stone is also located on the main street in the center of Großweißandt, which later merged with other villages to form Weißandt-Gölzau . The porphyry stone stands north of the church , manor house and castle .

After the Second World War , the memorial stone, which weighed tons, disappeared in a night and fog action by burying it on the spot. Instead, a memorial stone for Ernst Thälmann was erected there. But when the town center was renovated in the 1990s, people remembered the stone and were able to rediscover it. It was lifted with a heavy-duty crane and brought back to its old place.

inscription

Memorial stones for the Battle of Nations are part of the border area of war memorials . It is true that they are also intended to commemorate the fallen, but unlike memorials for the wars of the 1860s and 1870s, they do not want to commemorate specific people, but above all the political significance of the event. Therefore the stone in Großweißandt bears the simple inscription 18. X 1813.1913 and an iron cross . Due to their simple design, the memorial stones are sometimes even denied the designation as memorials.

literature

  • Regina Michel: Stories about time and people: Life in the region between Köthen and Bitterfeld 1945 to 2000. Leipzig: horizont projekt gmbh. ISBN 978-3-940380-02-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf, 9.9 MB) - answer of the state government to a small question for written answer (the delegates Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6/3905 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670)
  2. ↑ Michel, pp. 338-339. With photo documentation of the re-installation.

Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 17.6 "  N , 12 ° 4 ′ 7.4"  E