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Selma-Schonung Memorial Stone

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Selma-Schonung Memorial Stone

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Location: Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Kapuste

April 18, 2016

Selma von der Heydt (1862-1944)
"Selma von der Heydt also shared her social attitude, as I said, with her husband. The preservation of green areas in the rapidly increasing settlement of the Wuppertal was one of their joint projects and create hiking trails, like in Mirker Hain, where road stones bear the initials of Selma von der Heydt. "
Source: https: //wuppertal.de/kultur-bildung/stadtarchiv/foto_des_monats.php

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

November 30, 2020

"... Anyway, the question arises, who is this young lady anyway? She was part of one of the families in Wuppertal whose names you come across everywhere and she also left a lot of traces in Wuppertal: Selma von der Heydt, née Haarhaus, the mother of the "bustling" banker and art patron Eduard von der Heydt and his brother August ... "
wuppertal.de/kultur-bildung/stadtarchiv/foto_des_monats.php

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_von_der_Heydt

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Tevion1505 (Andreas)

June 8, 2021

Selma von der Heydt August 5, 1862 to August 5, 1944
In September 2010 Wuppertal celebrates a big festival with a colorful program. 400 years earlier, today's Elberfeld district had been granted city rights.

For the 300th anniversary in 1910, the von der Heydt couple donated two fountains. Unlike the justice fountain of the banker August von der Heydt on Platz der Republik in the Ostersbaum district, the smaller of his wife Selma at the then largest sports facility in the Bergisches Land am Freudenberg was not mentioned in the daily newspapers.

The first German Heine monument on the Spessartweg also went back to Küllenhahn on her initiative. The monument to the not undisputed poet fell apart over the years, the remains were destroyed in 1933. In 1958 the city had a new one built in Von-der-Heydt-Park at Friedenshain.

The "Freifrau" was just as enthusiastic about art as her husband, the baron. "Both thinking and wanting were intimately fused, so that as a citizen of his hometown, he did nothing without the advice and assistance of his companion."

In 1880, the young Selma Haarhaus from an important Elberfeld family of manufacturers married into one of the richest families. As was customary for middle-class women of the time, she was also involved in the social field. The banker's wife was a member of the board of directors of the Patriotic Women's Association and the Red Cross. During the First World War, she campaigned for the care of wounded soldiers. The former Red Cross Hospital on the Hardt, used as a military hospital during the war, owed its establishment to the Patriotic Women's Association.

Source: web.archive.org/web/20160306212132/https://wuppertal.de/rathaus-buergerservice/verwaltung/gleichstellung_frau_mann/archiv_starke_frauen/102370100000246071.php

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