The Lindhoop Memorial is a war memorial in the municipality of Kirchlinteln in Lower Saxony.
It is unique due to its construction as a roughly ten meter high obelisk in the form of a sword made of hewn boulders.
The monument was erected as a war memorial by an artillery regiment of the Reichswehr from Altona to commemorate the fallen soldiers of World War I.
The choice of location was made because of the land available in the Lindhoop forest and heath area between Kirchlinteln and Verden (Aller).
It was made available by a regiment captain who came from Kirchlinteln.
The annual regiment meeting at the memorial in Kirchlinteln could be combined with an "excursion to the heath".
The monument was erected according to a design by the painter Adolf Hinzpeter and inaugurated in 1932.
After taking power in 1936, the National Socialists had the open space in front of the memorial prepared as a parade ground and from then on used the space for military roll calls.
In the period that followed, regular reservist meetings of the Altona regiment with wreath-laying took place at the memorial.
In 1971, the rocket artillery battalion 32 of the Bundeswehr from Barme took over the sponsorship of the monument and continued this tradition until its dissolution in 1993.
Since 1993, the war memorial has been cared for by the citizens of Kirchlinteln as a local attraction and is a popular starting point for walks in the Kirchlinteln district.
Due to dilapidation, direct access to the obelisk has been blocked by a site fence since 2018 after individual stones have already fallen.
The possibilities of a restoration should be clarified by an expert opinion of a restorer.