Wittringen Memorial Ensemble

As early as 1895, the Gladbeck Landwehr and Warrior Association was busy building a monument for the fallen soldiers of the wars of liberation against Napoleon (1813-1815) and the Franco-Prussian War of 1879/1871. However, the draft was not pursued further and the funds collected were not sufficient to implement it. After the First World War - in the wake of the monuments being built everywhere - a special purpose association was founded in 1926 to build a memorial and a committee was convened in 1929. The city planning officer Richard Korn designed the round courtyard in 1930, and construction began in 1933. The city used unemployed welfare recipients to save costs. Inside, the monument made of Ruhr sandstone originally bore the motto frieze:
"1914-1918 To honor the dead of war, to call for generations of victory."
The second line was eliminated after the Second World War and replaced with the years 1939-1945.

The memorial stands in the middle of the Wittringer Forest. On May 8, 1987, a stele was added to the memorial, excerpts of the speech by Federal President von Weizsäcker of May 8, 1985 were immortalized on it.

Natural stone monument inaugurated in 1934, today a memorial ensemble for the victims of war and violence