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GeschichtssteleHistory Stele |
Ivan Theimer
1997 |
Stele with a relief showing scenes from the history of Horst. At the top the martyrdom of St. Hippolytus, was was dragged to death by horses - however, the Hippolytus-figure is hardly to see.
At the foot is a relief map of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
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The stele was hard to photograph because of the small details and the trees at the back.
Gelsenkirchener Geschichte describes it as follows:
The stele is a reminder of the past of the Horst district and the Ruhr area. It contains very different pictorial representations that refer to the space and its people with artistic freedom. You can see a cast of a 200,000-year-old flint scraper, the so-called 'Vogelheim blade', which is the oldest reliable evidence of the presence of people in this area. Above it are two pairs of busts, probably Anna von Palandt and Rütger von der Horst, who had Horst Castle built in the 16th century; possibly with the money that Anna von Palandt had brought into the marriage. Miner's lamps, tools, people and animals are depicted moving between the upper world and the underworld. The pigeon, that is, the 'racehorse of the little man', which also challenged the cooking skills of women, just like the carp, which is food and at the same time a symbol of Christianity. Everyday things stand next to classic symbols, the banal next to the tragic. On the sides of the stele are carved the names of the young Hungarian Jewish women who were abducted here in Horst to do forced labor in war production and many of whom died in the bombing raids.
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