Stolperschwellen in Weingarten

The Stolpersteine in Weingarten lists all Stolpersteine that have been collocated in Weingarten in the very south of Germany. Stolpersteine is the German name for stumbling blocks collocated all over Europe by German artist Gunter Demnig. They remember the fate of the Nazi victims being murdered, deported, exiled or driven to suicide.

Generally, the stumbling blocks are posed in front of the building where the victims had their last self chosen residence. Stolperschwellen are much larger and they usually remember a group of victims.

Stolperschwellen

Image Location Dedication
Abteistraße 5
FORCED LABOUR IN WEINGARTEN 1942 TO 1945
1135 MALE AND FEMALE FORCED LABOURERS
IN THE, RUSSIAN CAMP'" IN ABTEISTR. 5
166 MEN — 126 WOMEN
156 DEAD PERSONS FROM EASTERN EUROPE LAY BURIED IN THE GRAVE YARD
Abteistraße 5
INSIDE THIS BASILICA WITH ITS RELIC OF THE PASSION HUMANS HAVE SUFFERED AND DIED
LORD HAVE MERCY ON US AND BESTOW TO THE DECEASED
FREEDOM IN YOUR ETERNAL PLACES

Stolperstein

Stone Inscription Location Life and death
HERE LIVED
JOACHIM BRUNNER
BORN 1884
IN RESISTANCE
ARRESTED 1943
'DEMORALIZATION OF THE TROOPS'
WELZHEIM
1944 DACHAU
MURDERED 1945
MAUTHAUSEN
Wilhelmstraße 30
47°48′26″N 9°38′39″E / 47.807204°N 9.644256°E / 47.807204; 9.644256 (Stolperstein für Joachim Brunner)
Joachim Brunner was born in 1884. He originated from Bad Waldsee in the district Ravensburg. In 1912 he moved to Weingarten. He was trained as an ironworker but worked as a peddler. First he travelled with a bike, later on with a moped. He came around, knew a lot of people, discussed the state of the nation and exchanged news with other citizens critical to the Nazi regime. He was accused of undermining military morale and was arrested in 1943, kept imprisoned in Welzheim, deported to Dachau concentration camp in 1944 and murdered in Mauthausen concentration camp on 12 March 1945. Eight weeks later the Nazi regime perished.[1][2]

Date of collocations

The Stolperschwellen and the Stolperstein of Weingarten were collocated by the artist himself on 17 April 2013.

See also

References

  1. SWR: Joachim Brunner: Unbequemer Quergänger, 17 June 2014, retrieved 21 February 2017 (in German)
  2. Denkort am Ravensburger Erinnerungsweg: Weingarten: Joachim Brunner (KZ-Opfer aus der Arbeiterschaft), Stolperstein Wilhelmstr. 30, retrieved 21 February 2017 (in German)
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