Left door, top to bottom
- Inscription: adelheid - otto - edith.
- Otto I., der Große / Otto the Great (912 - Memleben 973), founder of the Holy Roman Empire, reigning from 936 until his death in 973
(Wikipedia).
- Edgitha / Edith of England, also Eadgyth (910 - Magdeburg 946), daughter of Edward the Elder, and the first wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
(Wikipedia).
- Adelheid von Burgund / Saint Adelaide of Italy (930/31 - Kloster Selz, Alsace 999), second wife of Otto the Great, Holy Roman Emperor. Empress Adelaide was perhaps the most prominent European woman of the 10th century; she was regent of the Holy Roman Empire as the guardian of her grandson in 991-995.
(Wikipedia).
- Inscription: eike / v. repkow - diz recht / ne han ich / selve nicht / vnderdacht / iz haben / von aldere / an vnsich / gebracht / vnse gvte / vorevaren - sachsenspiegel.
Eike von Repgow (Reppichau near Aken ca. 1180 - ca. 1235), German administrator who compiled the Sachsenspiegel (1220/35) to document existing, customary law and the first work in the German language. The quotation is a part of the praefatio rhythmica of the Sachsen / spiegel
(Wikipedia).
- Inscription: till / evlenspiegel.
Till Eulenspiegel (Kneitlingen ca. 1300 - Mölln bei Lübeck 1350 (supposed)), an impudent trickster figure originating in the Middle Low German folklore
(Wikipedia).
- Inscription: doktor / eisenbarth.
Johannes Andreas Eisenbarth (Oberviehtach im Oberpfälzer Wald 1663 - Hann. Münden 1717), German surgeon. He was an oculist and barber-surgeon who specialized in treatment of cataracts, calculus surgery, and the treatment of bone fractures
(Wikipedia).
- Inscription: otto / von gvericke.
Otto von Guericke (Magdeburg 1602 - Hamburg 1686), German scientist, inventor, and politician, known int.al. for the establishment of the physics of vacuums (the famous Magdeburg hemispheres); mayor of Magdeburg
(Wikipedia).
- Inscription: georg philipp / telemann.
Georg Philipp Telemann (Magdeburg 1681 - Hamburg 1767), German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist
(Wikipedia).
- Inscription: magdebvrgvm.
View of Magdeburg in the 17th century.
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Right door, bottom to top
- Inscription: wilhelm /weitling.
Wilhelm Weitling (Magdeburg 1808 - New York 1871), European socialist and first German theoritician on communism, Engels referred to him as the "founder of German communism"
(Wikipedia).
- Inscription: hans / grade.
Hans Grade (Köslin 1879 - Borkheide 1946), German aviation pioneer
(Wikipedia).
- Inscription: erich weinert.
Erich Weinert (Magdeburg 1890 - Berlin 1953), German Communist writer and a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
(Wikipedia).
- Inscription: beginn des wiederavfbavs.
Beginn des Wiederaufbaus nach 1945 / Begin of the reconstruction after 1945
- Alltagsszene / Everyday scene.
- Jugendweihe / Youth consecration
(Wikipedia).
- Das neue Stadtzentrum / The new town centre
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