Monument to the Battle of the Nations (Zwintschöna)

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The Monument to the Battle of the Nations in Zwintschöna is a memorial stone in Zwintschöna in the unified municipality of Kabelsketal in the Saale district in Saxony-Anhalt . It is under monument protection and is in the monument list the tracking number 094 55411 as part of the monument area center entered.

location

In the old village , the historical center of Zwintschöna, the Völkerschlachtdenkmal is located in the small square formed by the lanes under a tree.

History and shape

During the Battle of Leipzig , Halle (Saale) was a hospital town on the Prussian-Russian side and cared for almost as many wounded as the city had inhabitants. In addition, three battles took place in the vicinity of the city in 1813, one of which grazed the villages east of the city. On September 29, 1813, the Cossacks and the French met. These are reasons enough for monuments that can be found here in several neighboring villages, for example in Büschdorf or Kanena . They all date from 1913 and were created on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the battle.

The peculiarity of the rather simple monument in Zwintschöna is that it was renovated several times for anniversaries, as the other inscriptions in 1988 and 2013 reveal, and this was also immortalized on the stone. In addition, its shape differs slightly from the other examples: The inscription stone, which is not too large, stands on a small stone stepped pedestal and is adorned with an iron cross in addition to the inscriptions . Since there are mostly no names on the monuments to the battle of the nations , they are more on the fringes of war memorials .

Web links

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. ^ Wars of Liberation (Zwintschöna) , Saalekreis im Bild, accessed on September 13, 2019.

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 50.1 ″  N , 12 ° 2 ′ 41.6 ″  E