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Hamm
Stadt Hamm
Nordrhein-Westfalen

Ermelinghofstraße - Bockum-Hövel

Gedenkstätte Zeche Radbod

Memorial Radbod Colliery

The monument commemorates the mining accident of 1908, when 349 miners lost their life.
(Wikipedia)

Ernst Müller-Braunschweig
1911

Description

The monument consists of three parts. In the center stands on a high plinth an c. 6 m high dolomite stone cross. On both sides of the cross are two walls with 20 tablets with the 350 names of the killed miners. In the center of each of these walls is a 2 m high pedestal on which on the left a statue of a kneeling, praying miner, and on the right a stsatue of two grieving women.

Hamm - Gedenkstätte Zeche Radbod

Inscription(s)

dem andenken
der
AUF ZECHE RADBOD
am 12. november 1908
verunglückten bergleute

gewidmet
von der
bergwerkgesellschaft
trier

Signature

E.Müller

List of names

We have photos of the lists of miners on this memorial. Contact us if you want to see these lists.

Sculptor

Ernst Müller-Braunschweig (Ölper bei Braunschweig 1860 - Charlottenburg 1928), German sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Gedenkstätte Zeche Radbod.
Zeche Minister Achenbach, Grubenunglücke & ihre Denkmäler.
Stadt Hamm, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum der Stadt Hamm, (PDF on-line).

Tags

Town: Hamm
Kreis: Stadt Hamm
Land: Nordrhein-Westfalen
Country: Germany
Miner
Müller-Braunschweig, Ernst
Woman (mourning)

Locatie (N 51°42'8" - E 7°45'49") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: denw371; Photograph: 11 September 2015
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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