History Column-Koblenz, RP, Germany
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Timeline of the Histories column on the Josef-Görres-Platz in Koblenz.
Waymark Code: WMWTCV
Location: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Date Posted: 10/11/2017
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"The History of Koblenz in 10 pictures
The Koblenz
History column
Jürgen Weber recounts the 2000 year old history of the settlement of Koblenz from Roman times until the present day in ten pictures.
The artist does this not only byy means of an accentuated selection of happenings, but also pictorially in a specifically philosophical interpratation. He doesn't let history climb in a rising spiral (as for instance the famous Trajan's Column in Rome) but arranges it by episodes, one on the top of the other, sometimes divides by layers of destruction. History for him is not a progressive, "Improving" development, but is always a new beginning wich emanates mostly from the demolished past on wich it is based, but is essentially soemthing different.
The History Column is a present of Rhineland-Palatinate to the town of Koblenz for it's 2000th anniversary in 1992. It was completed in 2000.
1. 1th - 5th century > Roman castellum settlement
2. 6th - 9th century > Crown Dominion and meeting place
3. 10th - 12th century > From Regnum Francorum to Kurtrier
4. 12th - 13th century > Crusaders, slaves-trade
5. 13th - 16th century > Prospering community
6. 17th - 18th century > Thirty Years War, persecution of witches
7. about 1800 > French Revolution
8. 19th - 20th century > Prussian period
9. Second World War > Destruction 1944
10. Today > A forward looking town"
Source: Information panel
Group that erected the marker: Rhineland-Palatinate
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
Josef-Görres-Platz
Koblenz,
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