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Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines
Haut-Rhin
Alsace

Place du Maréchal Foch

Monument aux morts

War memorial

Georges Muhlenbeck
1925

Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines / Monument aux morts

Description

Monument with on the front a bronze relief of allegorical women representing Alsace and Lorraine with in the background the sun over the Vosges, where the Haut-Koenigsbourg and the three castles of Riquewihr are visible; on thethree others sides bronze plaques with names of victims,

coat of arms on the back side

Inscription(s)

A NOS MORTS

1914 1918

Signed: Muhlenbeck

Annotation

The Memorial was 23 August 1925. The project was carried out by the municipal architect P. Colot (or Collot), the sculptor Paul Brutschi of Ribeauvillé and sculptor G. Muhlenbeck, who made the bronze plaques.

Memorial - list of names

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Sculptor

Georges Emile Muhlenbeck (1862), French sculptor.

Sources & Information

Ministere de culture, Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel.

Locatie (N 48°14'40" - E 7°10'46") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: fral098; Photograph: 16 April 2012
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