Statues - Hither & Thither

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Kevelaer
Lkr. Kleve
Nordrhein-Westfalen

Basilikastraße / Jansons Gasse

Theodor Bergmann

Kevelaer 1868 - Kevelaer 1948
German politician, entrepreneur and writer, author of the Kevelaer song Wor hör ek t'hüß? (Where is my home?)
(Wikipedia)

Will Horsten
1985 (1945/46)

Description

Bronze head on a stone column. The cast is made in 1985 from a plaster bust made by Horsen c. 1945/46.

Inscription(s)

THEODOR
BERGMANN
1868
1948

WOR HÖR EK T'HÜSS
Wor hör ek t'hüß? -

kent gej min Land?

Gän Baerge schnejbelaeje,
Gän driewend Water träckt

en Band

Voerbej an grote Staeje:
Dor, wor de Nirs doer't

Flackand gätt

Wor in dem Baend et

Maisüt stät

On wor de Keckfoars quakt

in't Lüß,

Dor hör ek t'hüß.

Sculptor

Will Horsten (1920 - 1979), German sculptor from Kevelaer (Kevelaerer Enzyklopädie).

Sources & Information

Blattus Martini, Kevelaerer Enzyklopädie, Bergmann, Theodor.

Locatie (N 51°35'3" - E 6°14'45") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: denw767; Photograph: 15 June 2019
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