Mahnmal Kapellplatz

The city had the means to rebuild this church and chose not to. Leaving the walls open to the sky was a decision taken in 1954, and it turned a ruin into the central memorial for the roughly 11,000 people who died in one night in September 1944. Forty years later Thomas Duttenhoefer added the bronze figure, because a cross on its own was felt to say too little about what had actually happened here.