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Städteregion Aachen Nordrhein-Westfalen Rurstraße
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Sherlock HolmesFictional private detective created in 1886 by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)(Wikipedia) |
Unbekannte(r) Künstler(in) artist unknown before 2009 |
What has Sherlock Holmes lost in Monschau?
On the banks of the River Rur, where the Laufenbach flows in it, we encounter the mysterious metal figure of Sherlock Holmes. With the typical whistle in the mouth, the slider cap on the head and the long coat, the figure is hardly to be missed. In fact, the statue of Sherlock Holmes is reminiscent of an author from the Eifel region: Jacques Berndorf, once a freelance freelance journalist, he began writing crime fiction in the 1980s, he researched his locations and stories accurately and reproduced then faithfully in his books. When Berndorf writes about a street in the Eifel with three lime trees, then this street really exists, and if one visits this street, one finds the described trees. How could it be otherwise: also Monschau appears in his Eifel crime fiction. Anyone who wants to know something about the Monschau region and the Eifel can do so in a very entertaining way by reading the Berndorf's Eifel crime fictions.
Jacques Berndorf, writer's name of Michael Preute (Duisburg-Hamborn 1936) is a German journalist and writer, publishing his first 'Eifel-Krimi' in 1989 (Wikipedia).
There is a photo on the Alamy website from 2009 showing this statue.
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