War Memorial Leer

Monument in the center of the pedestrian zone in Leer / East Frisia. On May 10, 1874, the impressive monument was erected in Leer / East Frisia to commemorate those who died in the 1870/71 war. Today it stands in the middle of the busy shopping and pedestrian zone. The monument, crowned by an eagle sitting on a gun barrel, shows major damage. The raised surrounding inscriptions that were originally present are either missing or only fragmented. On all four sides of the memorial there are granite tablets with very weathered and therefore difficult to read inscriptions of the fallen and their places of origin from the entire Leer district.
Source: online project Memorials to the Fallen
denkmalprojekt.org/dkm_deutschland/leer_ostfriesland.htm

The lettering on the large boulder makes an important statement from the city of Leer.

The Monument Square is a meeting point and event area in the middle of the pedestrian zone. The name comes from a monument that still exists today and was erected in 1874 to commemorate those who fell in the Franco-German War of 1870/71.

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