Displaced persons monument (anniversary park Bad Homburg)

Displaced persons monument in the anniversary park

Displaced persons monument

The expellees monument in the Jubilee Park Bad Homburg commemorates the expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War and is a listed building .

The monument

The memorial is the work of the sculptor Ernst Steinacker and was erected in the Jubilee Park on April 15, 1989. In addition to the artist, District Administrator Jürgens and Lord Mayor Assmann also took part in the opening ceremony. The client was the Bad Homburg city association of the Association of Expellees .

The monument consists of a stone base and a bronze cylinder on top and is 2.7 meters high. The base bears the 10 coats of arms of the German states or provinces lost after the Second World War (Baltic States, Berlin-Brandenburg, Danzig, Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia, East Prussia, Pomerania, Transylvania, Sudetenland, West Prussia). The bronze cylinder is divided into segments. These show scenes of displacement, depictions from the professional world and the new home Bad Homburg. Christian symbols indicate a change for the better, God's blessing guidance and readiness for reconciliation. In particular, a dove as a sign of peace should be mentioned. The crowning flowers symbolize a "prosperous, nature-loving, upward-striving future in harmonious, Christian balance".

The inscriptions read:

“Everyone has a right to a home! Let us remember the lost! ”-“ The builders, engineers, glass cutters, soap, wafer, hat, shoe and basket makers and everyone else began again. We thank you with our structure. ""

- Inscriptions on the monument

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Kirdorf
• List of displaced persons in Hessen (A – F)

literature

• Gertha Walsh: monuments in the urban area; in: Barbara Dölemeyer among other things: History of the city of Bad Homburg in front of the height. Volume 5: Departure-Tradition-Growth 1948–1990. Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 157–158.

Web links

Commons : Bad Homburg, Sales Monument Jubiläumspark  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Hrsg.): Kurpark, Displacement Monument In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
• Memorials and memorials, Hesse: Allmendfeld – Gelnhausen (BdV)

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 51.1 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 12.6 ″  E

Individual evidence

1. Jump up ↑ Walsh and the Federation of Displaced Persons lists this date. The monument protection office names 1982