Way to death

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Memorial path to death
East Side

Way to death is a listed monument for the victims of the National Socialist tyranny in Schönebeck (Elbe) in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located in the Park of Peace on the north side of Nicolaistraße in downtown Schönebeck.

Design and history

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West side

According to the inscription, the monument was created by the sculptor Richard Horn from 1949 to 1951, according to other information from 1947 onwards. The sandstone used comes from Nebra (Unstrut) . The installation took place on July 22, 1951 in the area known at the time as the place of the victims of fascism . It commemorates forty people from Schönebeck who were murdered during the National Socialist dictatorship. The memorial was considered to be the richest free sculpture in the GDR .

The large sculpture represents a group of 20 people with different characteristics. The women, men and children grouped into a path of suffering stand on a cuboid five meters long and three meters wide. The hands of the leader - she represents a resistance fighter - are tied with a chain. The resistance fighter, described as indomitable, is at the head of the procession as the victor over the tormentors. Other figures show the broken and desperate, friends saying goodbye, a young couple going to death, a suffering mother with an infant, a mother looking for her child and a thoughtful old man at the end of the train.

On the front of the memorial is the inscription:

THE VICTIMS OF FASCHISM

In local monument list the monument is below the detection number 094 61017 as a small monument listed.

On the back of the base there is a stone tablet with the inscription:

Sculptor Prof. R. Horn
was
made
illegible between 1949 and July 22, 1951

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Geffert : Architectural monuments in the Schönebeck district . District Museum Schönebeck 1988, page 17.
  • Günter Kraatz, Fritz Heiber, Heinz Schmächte, The cultural and natural monuments of the district of Schönebeck , District Museum Schönebeck 1967, page 47.

Web links

Commons : Path to death  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hans-Joachim Geffert: Architectural monuments in the Schönebeck district . District Museum Schönebeck 1988, page 17
  2. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , page 3762.

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 17.1 ″  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 14.5 ″  E