Marienfeld Memorial

The Marienfeld Memorial is a war memorial for the fallen and missing of the two world wars in the Harsewinkel district of Marienfeld in the district of Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia. The former fountain house of the Marienfeld monastery from the early 18th century was moved to its current location in front of the gate of the former monastery complex at the beginning of the 1950s on the initiative of the local heritage association. In it stood a figure of St. George created in 1954 by a student of Kurt Schwippert, which the people of Marienfeld did not like and led to protests. Therefore, Hubert Hartmann created another figure a year later, so that the memorial could be inaugurated on November 16, 1955. Every year on the day of national mourning and the homeland and shooting festival, the Marienfeld local history association commemorates the fallen at a wreath-laying ceremony.

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