Mahnmal an der Bartholomäuskirche
The Mahnmal an der Bartholomäuskirche stands beside St Bartholomew’s Church in Dortmund as a public memorial. Its central form is oversized bronze barbed wire.
Seven massive stone pylons hold the sculpture above a boundary facing the street. Theodor Nöker created this transformation of a former war memorial in 1994. A public competition in the early 1990s selected his design under architect Karl Pöting’s committee. The bronze casting came from a wooden model and was produced in southern Germany.
A bronze plaque set into the ground commemorates victims of war and violence. Its warning to the living redirects remembrance from military glory towards mourning and responsibility. The sculpture carries the signature and date “Nöker 92”, while a ceremony on Volkstrauertag honours victims of the world wars and other violence.
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