The monument project of the municipality of Bergkirchen am Eschenrieder Kulturhaus has not yet been completed. There are still benches to linger.
Bergkirchen– Birgitta Unger-Richter, district nurse, was involved in the planning from the beginning. Originally, the official inauguration was scheduled for mid-April at the end of Mayor Simon Landmann's term, but then the corona-related restrictions came in between. The reason for the monument project in Eschenried was the donation of the sculptures and other works by the artist Bernd W. Schmidt-Pfeil, including the wreck of the jet jet from the Korean War with the pilot in silicon-aluminum casting (we reported).
The two information boards, which show the effects of historical events on Eschenried during the two world wars, were designed by Simon Landmann and local researcher Andreas Wagner, before they went to print.
The text by Birgitta Unger-Richter illuminates the artist Bernd W. Schmidt-Pfeil in connection with the plane launch in the Second World War near Eschenried. The front and back of the second panel provide information about what happened during the First World War, which Andreas Wagner researched and compiled from various sources and which "pointed to Eschenried", as he says.
The development of the prisoner-of-war camp on the neighboring Eschenhof and life in the camp from 1915 to 1918 are described.
Another topic is the so-called Russian bridges over the Groebenbach, which were used for agricultural purposes. They were mistakenly associated with Russian soldiers detained in Puchheim, although they were built by the French prisoners of war.
Josef Huber, who is very close to his home town of Eschenried, discovered a railing that had fallen into the creek over the Grobenbach stream "Am Waldeck" and contributed with a segment of the bridge to "making a piece of the past visible and preserving it," as Wagner says .
Huber, who also made a significant contribution to establishing tennis and golf in the moss, plans to set up the same information board about the prisoner-of-war camp and the Russian bridges on the golf course grounds "to bring the history of Eschenried closer to those unfamiliar with the area".
INGRID KOCH
