War Memorial - Bad Helmstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany

Zur Ehre
den
im Kampfe
für Deutschlands Freiheit
1870 und 71 gefallenen
Braunschweigern.

1872

To the honour
of the men
from Brunswick
who fell during the fight for
Germany's freedom
in 1870 and 71.

1872

1870

Saarbrücken the 6th    Saargemünd 7th-8th
Pont à Mousson 12th    Thiaucourt 13th-14th
Mars la Tour 15th    Vionville 16th    Gravelotte 18th
Noisseville 31st August    La Maxe 27th September
Ladonchamps the 2nd    Charly and Les Tapes 7th
Metz 18th October    Blaru the 26th November
Neuville aux bois the 3rd
Mer 12th    Vendòme 15th 16th    Epuisay 17th
Monaie 20th    Vendome 31st December - 1st January

1871

Montoire the 6th    La Charire sur le loir 8th
Chahaignes 9th    Le Maus 10th 11th 12th
St. Jean 15th    Laval 17th 18th    Conches 18th
Lizier and Nieux Pont 30th January

The first panel is hardly to read.
I hope to find a name list in a book or another place.

Knigge, Scheppelmann from Helmstedt / Lappe from Herrhausen / Cordes from Hessen / Schmidt from Heyen / Sander from Holenberg / Brandhorst, Hahmann, Lorleberg, Schaumann, Arnoldi, Eichhorn, Herschelmann, Hotze, Wolff from Holzminden / Müller from Kemnade / Hantelmann from Kissenbrück / Rühmann, Segger from Königslutter / Keune from Küblingen / Meyer from Liedingen / Plock from Lossewitz / Bosse from Lucklum / Südecum from Münchehof / Diederich from Opperhausen / Steinhoff from Ortshausen / Steinhoff from Opperhausen / Notbohm, Gödeke from Onenstein / Wille aus Orxhausen / Fricke from Papenrode / Krüger from Parleib / Schulze from Reislingen / Bohlmann from Rottorf / Lippelt from Rümmer / Hermann Hanne and Heinrich Hanne from Salder / Hermanns from Saalsdorf / Kirchhof from Sauingen / Hillebrecht from Schachrenbeck / Bölsche from Scheppau / Koch and Düvel from Schlewecke / Koch and Warneke from Seesen / Heirey from Semmenstedt / Herzberg and Schmidt from Stiege / Dietrich from Sunstedt / Jürgens from Süpplingenburg / Schmidt from Tanne / Bratherig from Timmerlah / Rudeloff from Trautenstein / Habermann from Uehrde / Bebenroth and Schaarschmidt from Volkmarsdorf / Meyne from Wahle / Adam from Wangelnstedt / Goedecke and Rosenthal from Watzum / Wittenberg from Wendeburg / Saatze from Wienrode / Engelke from Wenzen / Siemann from Gr. Winingstedt / Ehlers, H. Jacobi, D. Jacobi, Matthiae, Saake and Schoppe from Wolfenbüttel / Schilling from Zorge / Uhde from Ackenhausen

Brunswick was a duchy what contained a lot of other places at this time. That's the reason why they all were from Brunswick (See the first inscription panel).

Also this memorial was discovered by my workmate Olaf Kuklinski. Thanks, Kuki.

This page is dedicated to the 10 million victims of World War I and 60 million victims of World War II.
We should always remember the immense grief and loss each war brought to the world.