Click here for notable peacemakers in Austria. | Click here for peace monuments in Germany.
Click here for monuments related to Bertha von Suttner [1843-1924] in Austria & elsewhere.
Click here for "Sites of Memory: Markers, Memorials, Monuments & Cemeteries" by Mark R. Hatlie, Tübingen (Germany).
N.B. This web page has three parts: (1) Vienna (Austria), (2) the Remainder of Austria, and (3) Note about mahnmal & denkmal.
(1) Vienna (Austria) - 20 Peace Monuments
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 1819 - "Congress of Vienna," Musee du Louvre, Paris (France). By Jean-Baptiste Isabey [1767-1855]. "The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September 1814 to June 1815."
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"By the Turks guns originating from material and its casting in the early days of the Second Republic, it is also a symbol of peace, freedom and the country as a gift from the province of Upper Austria for the St. Stephen's Cathedral was destroyed in World War II as a symbol of the reconstruction [Google translation]." Called "The Voice of Austria." At 21,383 kg, the third largest bell in Western & Central Europe, after St. Petersglocke in Cologne Cathedral (24.000 kg) and Maria Dolens (qv) in Rovereto, Italy (23.000 kg).
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Reopened in larger space on December 1, 2005. Click here for description of a visit in December 2001.
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August 23, 1979 - Vienna International Centre (VIC), UN Office at Vienna (UNOV), Vienna (Austria). Includes headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), respectively in Vienna since 1957 and 1967. 
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| 1983 - Replica of the Code of Hammurabi," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna International Centre (VIC), Vienna (Austria). "The Code of Law Stele of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code, dating to ca. 1700 B.C. The original stele today is on display in the Louvre Museum in Paris (France). The replica, a gypsum cast, was donated to the IAEA by Iraq in 1983 on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Agency.
The sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi [1792-1750 BC], enacted the code, and partial copies exist on a human-sized stone stele and on various clay tablets. The Code consists of 282 laws, with punishments like 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,' also known as lex talionis. The Code is inscribed in the Akkadian language, using cuneiform script carved into the stele.
This Law was written before the Mosaic Code and was one of the first written laws in the world. The Code of Hammurabi was written on a stele, a large stone monument, and placed in a public place so that all could see it. The stele was later plundered by the Elamites in the 12th century BC and removed to their capital, Susa, Elam (now Khuzestan, Iran); it was rediscovered there in 1901 by the Egyptologist Gustave Jéquier. " 
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November 24, 1988 - Mahnmal gegen Krieg und Faschismus / Monument Against War & Fascism, Albertinaplatz, Vienna (Austria). By Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka [1928-2009]. This square is the site of a massacre in 1945 when an Allied bomb killed an unknown number of civilians taking shelter in the basement of a building. "Immensely controversial. No distinction among different groups who died in WW-II. Lead directly to the campaign for the 2000 Judenplatz memorial [qv]." See Winstone (2010), page 135.
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"This sculpture, made out of non-nuclear material from a dismantled nuclear device, symbolizes the commitment to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. It was donated to the IAEA by the Republic of South Africa in 1994.
'And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.' (Quotation from Isaiah 2:4)
Although this is the smallest sculpture at the UN Vienna, it is by no means the least important." 
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| September 9, 2009 - Hiroshima Peace Monument, Ottakring District, Vienna (Austria). "Some 100 people from Japan and Austria attended the unveiling Wednesday of a stone peace monument featuring a flagstone that was exposed to radiation in the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
The Vienna monument is linked with a children's peace monument in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park that is dedicated to Sadako Sasaki [1943-1955], a girl exposed to atomic radiation at the age of 2 & who died at age 12 from a radiation-caused illness. Austrian children's writer Karl Bruckner [1906-1982] authored "Sadako will leben" ("The Day of the Bomb") in 1961 with Sasaki as its heroine. The book has been translated into more than 20 languages. Citizens' groups in Hiroshima & Vienna decided to build the stone monument in the Austrian capital's Ottakring district, Bruckner's home area, to mark the 140th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Japan & Austria.
The Hiroshima Municipal Government contributed the flagstone from Hiroshima's old City Hall. It measures 180 cm high & weighs about 800 kg. It is inscribed with the words "world peace" in Japanese & German."
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/ ORGANIZE THE WORLD!
/ ALREFD HERMANN FRIED
/ * November 11, 1864 in Vienna. + 4 May 1921 in same place.
/ Lived in this house when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911.
/ He is considered the founder of peace research.
/ This marks the 100th Anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony." /// Info & image courtesy of Peter van den Dungen.
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 October 28-29, 2011 - "Symposium zu Friedensaktivist Fried / Sympossium on Peaceactivist Fried," Town Hall, Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse, Potsdam (Germany). "Who knows the German Peace Prize? In Potsdam, Bertha von Suttner is still present, less their long-time employee and later winner Alfred Hermann Fried. The Vienna-born peace activist, founded in 1892 with her ??along the German Peace Society and 'The peace waiting.' The monthly magazine quickly developed into an important organ of the peace movement. 100 years after the [Nobel] award ceremony, organized by the International Peace Bureau (IPB) in cooperation with the Working Group Historical Peace Research (AKHF), Bertha von Suttner Foundation of the German Peace Society & the United War Resisters (DFG-VK) a two-day symposium on 'Organize the world! The Nobel Peace Prize laureate Alfred Hermann Fried (1864-1921): Life, work and lasting impact.' [Google translation]" Click here for final symposium program in German & English (PDF file).
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December 1, 2011 - "A second seminar on Fried is due to be held in the Austrian Parliament, Vienna (Austria), on Dec 1st, 2011." /// "There will be a panel discussion, with Jalka, Peter van den Dungen &
Walter Goehring, on why Nobel peace laureates are so quickly forgotten, on
the occasion of the Fried year."
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(2) Remainder of Austria - 25 Peace Monuments
| 1807 - Peace of Pressburg Column, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Carinthia (Austria). Google translation: "The slim and about 20 meters high column of Salzburg marble was created in 1807 by the South Tyrolean master sculptor Johann Probst. You should remember the Peace of Pressburg between Austria and Napoleon (1805), and was donated by Cardinal Franz Xaver Altgraf of Salm-Reifferscheidt Herb home. Cardinal Salm, Prince-Bishop of Gurk, was during the first ascent of the highest mountain in Austria, the Grossglockner (27 July 1800), the process and gained high earnings during the occupation by the French in Klagenfurt.
The obelisk bears on its head as a symbolic peace sign cross and palm trees...."
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| May 3, 1975 - Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp, Mauthausen & Gusen (Austria). Center of a group of SS slave labor camps. Original inmates were largely Germans who had resisted the Nazi regime, notable communists, socialists, and religious dissenters. Thirty years after liberation Chancellor Bruno Kreisky officially opened the Mauthausen Museum. Many of the sub-camps near Gusen are now covered by residential areas built after the war. In February 2009 the memorial was vandalized by persons unknown, who defaced a section of the wall with anti-Islamic graffiti. Right image shows a 1978 East German postage stamp.
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| 1977 - Peace Monument, Sankt Ulrich (Austria). "Austria's First Peace Monument. On the occasion of St. Ulricher Kulturtage 1977 the first peace monument in Austria was built in Ortisei.
From 70 countries of the world, building blocks were sent. The sculptor Prof. Alois Dorn shaped the building blocks to a four-and-a-half-meter-high, narrow column.
All stones were poured into them, so that the semicircular inner wall shows the face of the stones.
Furthermore a bronze world globe with a peace dove was introduced [Google translation]." One of 15 peace monuments found in July 2017 by Googling "Friedensdenkmal" or "Friedensmahnmal." GLOBE DOVE
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| Date? - Ereignisdenkmal, Friedensdenkmal d. Siedlung Friedensstadt
Denkmalschutz-AT.svg Austria Bundesadler.svg This media shows the protected monument with the number 75669 in Austria. One of 15 peace monuments found in July 2017 by Googling "Friedensdenkmal" or "Friedensmahnmal."
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| Date? - Friedenskreuz/Peace Cross, on the Oberkaibling [Mountain], Pettenbach, Oberösterreich (Austria). "From the branch church of Heiligenleithen, south of Pettenbach, the path leads to the Friedenskreuz/Peace Cross on the Oberkaibling [Mountain], from where you have a beautiful view of the Upper Austrian Pre-Alps & the picturesque Alpine valley. One of 15 peace monuments found in July 2017 by Googling "Friedensdenkmal" or "Friedensmahnmal."
/// Image shows "50 Jahre Friedenskreuz am Oberkaibling."
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| Date? - Landeplatz des Friedens, Kirchenplatz/Church Square, Peuerbach, Oberösterreich (Austria). Herbert Egger, 2008; Stelenprofile stellen die Friedenstaube dar / Landing place of the
Peace, Herbert Egger, 2008; Steles provide the
Peace doves. One of 15 peace monuments found in July 2017 by Googling "Friedensdenkmal" or "Friedensmahnmal."
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Denkmal für den Weltfrieden / Monument for World Peace, Platz des Friedens, on Achalm [Mountain], Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg (Germany).
Ein Denkmal für den Weltfrieden auf der Achalm. "Peace monument on the square of peace on the Achalm. A monument to world peace on the Achalm." /// "In the Name of Peace.
'The flame of peace /
A symbol of global peace /
In memory of our mission /
To work for peace /
In thought, words, and deeds."
/// "The Flame of Peace / Flamme des Friedens is an award granted by the Austrian non-profit organization Vereins zur Förderung des Friedens / Association for the Promotion of Peace, which promotes world peace. The flame is represented by a wood carving mounted on a stone base. The organization gives out awards to prominent people, peace activists & organizations for their activity in promoting peace. ///
Her Imperial Royal Highness Princess Herta Margarete of Hapsburg-Lorraine, Archduke of Austria, Princess of Tuscany, Princess of Hungary, Princess of Bohemia, Princess of Croatia, President of the Flame of Peace [Google translation]." /// "Sample Monuments" erected at Schloss Wilhelminenberg in Vienna (Austria), March 2009; Sana'a (Yemen), September 2009; Mitterdorf (Austria), March 14, 2012; and Ernstbrunn (Austria), May 26, 2012. One of 15 peace monuments found in July 2017 by Googling "Friedensdenkmal" or "Friedensmahnmal." FLAMES
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| April 20, 1989 - Hitler's Birthplace, Salzburger Vorstadt, Braunau am Inn (Austria). The former Gasthof zum Pommer or Gasthof des Josef Pommer. Original address was Salzburger Vorstadt 219 when Adolf Hitler was born here at 6:30 p.m. on April 20, 1889, Easter Sunday. House is is unmarked, except for a large stone of Mauthausen granite which was placed on 100th anniversary of Hitler's birth. English translation: "For peace, freedom and democracy, never again Fascism, millions of dead admonish."
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| 1989 - Postage stamp (Austria) honoring Alfred Hermann Fried [1864-1921] who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911.
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Postage stamp (Austria). "For the 50th Anniversary of the resistance fighter Franz
Jägerstätter" (Österrreichische Briefmarke zum 50. Todestag des Widerstandskämpfers Franz Jägerstätter).
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|  About 1991 - Monuments celebrating the Pan-European Picnic, Sopron (Austria/Hungary). "The Pan-European Picnic / Paneuropäisches Picknick / páneurópai piknik was a peace demonstration held on the Austrian-Hungarian border near the town of Sopron on 19 August 1989, an important event during the Revolutions of 1989 that led to the fall of the Iron Curtain & the reunification of Germany... The place of the picnic is marked by a monument of Miklós Melocco [left image], by a bell presented from the city of Debrecen (Hungary) from where the idea of the Picnic emerged, a pagoda presented by the Association of the Japanese–Hungarian Friendship and by a wooden monument unveiled by the organisors [sic] in 1991. A large artwork made by Gabriela von Habsburg, a daughter of Otto von Habsburg, & symbolizing a Cross & a barbed wire [right image] can be found at the Cave Theatre of Fertorakos (Hungary), a few kilometres from the site. Hungarian President László Sólyom unveiled a white marble monument in memory of those who had risked their life to cross the Iron Curtain."
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|  September 5, 1994 - Protestantendenkmal / Salzburger Monument of Reconciliation, Salzburger Park, Savannah, Georgia (USA). Between Lincoln Street & Abercorn Street ramps on Bay Street. "Dedicated by the country (predominantly Roman Catholic) to the descendants of the Georgia Salzburgers (Protestants) who were exiled in 1731 from Salzburg because of their religious beliefs. Green serpentine stone from the Hohe Tauern region of Austria. Human figures chiseled by Anton Thuswaldner depict the people forced from their homes in Salzburg. Inscribed, "Denied Their Religious Freedom They Were Forced to Leave Their Homeland." The first monument to be given to Savannah by a foreign government.
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Stolpersteine / Stumbling Stones, Dachau & many other cities (Germany & Austria). "Artist Gunter Demnig [b.1947] has given this word a new meaning, that of a small, cobblestone-sized memorial for a single victim of Nazism. These memorials commemorate those deported and killed by the Nazis, mostly in Nazi concentration camps or extermination camps, including Jews, Sinti and Romani people (also called gypsies), members of the Resistance during World War II, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christians in opposition to the Nazis and the disabled. The list of cities that have stolpersteine now extends to several countries and hundreds of cities and towns." Demnig laid some 15,000 stones in over 345 towns by August 2008. | A
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Franz Jägerstätter [1907-1943] was an Austrian conscientious objector sentenced to death (at this place) and executed by Nazi Germany during World War II. He was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church on October 26, 2007, in Linz (Austria).
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| Date? - "Pax-Mundi-Denkmal / World Peace Monument," Stoob, Bergenland (Austria). Built by graduating class of State College of Ceramics & Furnaces. Five pillars apparently representing Australia, Europe, Africa, America & Asia.
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| July 6-17, 2000 - Peace Bell, 1st Choir Olympics, Linz (Austria). "Go to the “Hauptplatz” in Linz (picture!) and find house no. 33. There’s a small entrance that leads you to a backyard. If you enter you will see a very special bell. It’s the original bell of the first-ever World Choir Games (WCG). In 2000 they were held in Linz for the first time, former known as the “Choir Olympics”. At that time its chime had opened the world’s first “Choir Olympics” and at the closing, after the Prizegiving ceremony, it has officially closed the first WCG. Our bell has its place of honor now, very close to the Hauptplatz" /// "The young history of the Choir Olympics begins with a drum-roll in the Upper Austrian provincial capital of Linz: For the first time in the history of the international choral movement, so many choirs from numerous nations come together to participate in a universal choir competition and at the same time celebrate a great festival of choral music. The Choir Olympics are born and are from now on firmly established in the diaries of many choirs from all over the world.
Patron: Dr. Thomas Klestil, Federal President of the Republic of Austria.
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Friedensmauer / Peace Wall, Moosdorf, Braunau am Inn (Austria). "With the appointment to the Peace Community in 2003 [sic], Moosdorf committed itself to supporting all peace activities in the community, both ideally & financially. This peace consciousness has an external sign - peace monument & peace wall. Every citizen as well as visitor can form & shape his own peace brick. It is then [fired] & inserted into the wall. Thus, the monument continues to grow, it already consists of more than 4,000 peace bricks. ///
The Moosdorfer Peace Dialogue is an association that strives for peace at home & around the world. Our association currently comprises about 50 members & was founded in 2003. We see ourselves as a non-partisan, independent, open & accessible platform, which places peace efforts at the forefront. A core group of about 10 people meet[s] once a month to discuss planned actions, ongoing projects & peace talks or to critically question the current world events. [Google translation]" One of 15 peace monuments found in July 2017 by Googling "Friedensdenkmal" or "Friedensmahnmal."
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| Date? - Friedenskreuz/Peace Cross, on the Oberkaibling [Mountain], Pettenbach, Oberösterreich (Austria). "From the branch church of Heiligenleithen, south of Pettenbach, the path leads to the Friedenskreuz/Peace Cross on the Oberkaibling [Mountain], from where you have a beautiful view of the Upper Austrian Pre-Alps & the picturesque Alpine valley. One of 15 peace monuments found in July 2017 by Googling "Friedensdenkmal" or "Friedensmahnmal."
/// Image shows "50 Jahre Friedenskreuz am Oberkaibling."
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| Date? - Landeplatz des Friedens, Kirchenplatz/Church Square, Peuerbach, Oberösterreich (Austria). Herbert Egger, 2008; Stelenprofile stellen die Friedenstaube dar / Landing place of the
Peace, Herbert Egger, 2008; Steles provide the
Peace doves. One of 15 peace monuments found in July 2017 by Googling "Friedensdenkmal" or "Friedensmahnmal."
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Franz Jägerstätter Park, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria (Austria). Franz Jägerstätter [1907-1943] was an Austrian conscientious objector sentenced to death and executed by Nazi Germany during World War II. He was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church on October 26, 2007, in Linz (Austria). Park identified by Gerard Lössbroek (Pax Christi) who attended the opening ceremony.
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October 26, 2007 - Neuer Dom / New Cathedral, Linz (Austria). Franz Jägerstätter [1907-1943] is beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in a ceremony held by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins. His feast day is the day of his christening, May 21. He is the patron of Conscientious Objectors. Right image shows Gedenkstätte für den sel. Franz Jägerstätter / Memorial for the Blessed Franz Jägerstätter.
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| July 9-19, 2008 - Peace Bell, 5th World Choir Games (WCG), Graz (Austria). "The biggest and most successful choir competition of the world found its continuation in Austria. Graz, capital city of the province of Styria, is at the crossroads between different European cultures from the east and west, north and south. The unique old city center is one of UNESCO's world cultural heritage sites. In the year 2003, Graz was the spectacular cultural capital of Europe and in 2008 it was the world's capital of choral singing.
Patron: Dr. Heinz Fischer, Federal President of the Republic of Austria.
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The town council in Gfoehl in northern Austria decided on late Tuesday to carry out a public consultation in February on whether they are in favour of the stupa, set to be 37m high and 25m in diametre. //
'We plan to listen to what people have to say and then the council will decide,' Mayor Karl Simlinger told AFP, saying 21 members of the 23-member body supported the project. //
'There have been a few letters in favour and against, but on the whole people are in favour... This is something that would be good for tourism and the economy in Gfoehl.' Next to the monument in the eastern outskirts of the town will be a 600 sq m building with accommodation for monks and nuns as well as meditation rooms, according to planners." /// Image published with story but appears to be illustrative only.
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| October 24, 2014 - Deserteursdenkmal / Deserters Monument, Vienna (Austria). Opposite Austria's federal chancellery building. X-shaped monument with "all alone" etched multiple times across its top. "It follows a decision by Austria's parliament in 2009 to rehabilitate thousands of soldiers criminalised by the Nazis for desertion." Information courtesy of Gerard Lössbroek.
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| October 26, 2014 - Friedensglocke / Peace Bell, Parish Church of Linz, Linz (Austria). Replaces bell confiscated by the Nazis &
melted down for war purposes. 2,200 kg with peace dove on reverse side. Cast at Bachert Bell Foundry in Karlsruhe (Germany). Dedicated to the Blessed Franz
Jagerstatter [1907-1943] & his wife Franziska. Information courtesy of Gerard Lössbroek.
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Mahnmal fuer aktive Gewaltfreiheit /
Monument for Active Nonviolence, Nibelungenbrücke, Linz (Austria). "A platform in a circle, with a diameter of 3 metres, onto which you can step. On the platform, facing each other, are a cylindrical & a cubic 'pedestal' (on each of which a person can sit) which represent the different positions of the two parties in dialogue. Claimed to be 'the first in Europe.' The work is by Karl-Heinz Klopf, a local artist." October 2 is International Day of Nonviolence & Gandhi's birthday. Linz is officially a city of peace since 1986.
/// Information courtesy of Christian Bartolf & Peter van den Dungen. /// Compare 1994 "Peace Thrones" in Bluffton, Ohio (USA), in image at right.
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(3) Note about mahnmal & denkmal
"Before WW-II there were no warning monuments [mahnmal] in Germany. Instead there were war memorials [denkmal], to fallen soldiers dying, like marble Christs, for the fatherland. The bonds of national community were strengthened through therir sacrifice. War, in Great War monuments, is a mystical experience, a Calvary of valor, sacrifice, and regeneration. Great Gothic memorial fortresses were built in the German Reich to pluck honor from defeat. Nothing like this emerged after WW-II. Insted, the Germans built monuments not to glorify but to warn; Denkmal became Mahnmal. /// Like a monumental rosary, spread mostly over western Germany, the monuments testify to a fretting overmall Austrian town will carry out a public survey on a planned Buddhist stupa billed as Europe's biggest 'world peace monument' after some locals expressed unease, the mayor said on Wednesday [Dec. 14, 2011]. //
The town council in Gfoehl in northern Austria decided on late Tuesday to carry out a public consultation in February on whether they are in favour of the stupa, set to be 37m high and 25m in diametre. //
'We plan to listen to what people have to say and then the council will decide,' Mayor Karl Simlinger told AFP, saying 21 members of the 23-member body supported the project. //
'There have been a few letters in favour and against, but on the whole people are in favour... This is something that would be good for tourism and the economy in Gfoehl.' Next to the monument in the eastern outskirts of the town will be a 600 sq m building with accommodation for monks and nuns as well as meditation rooms, according to planners." /// Image published with story but appears to be illustrative only.
