War Memorial Trittau

The cenotaph for the fallen of the world wars was inaugurated in 1926. The idea goes back to Trittauer Pastor Eggert Sommerfeldt. The cenotaph is executed in the form of a symbolic crypt, crowned with a gilded half-sun (the sun was melted down in World War II and renewed in 1980).
The entrance to the crypt is formed by granite beams, in the middle of which a bronze door symbolically leads to the afterlife. The names of the 70 fallen from Trittau are immortalized here. In front of the 1926 memorial there is a slightly elevated square covered with limestone slabs, on which there is a grave slab dedicated to the dead of the Second World War. This memorial is the work of the famous sculptor Richard Kuöhl (1880-1961) and was completed in 1956. The entire complex has been a listed building since 2012.

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