Trip out in Dortmund. Only short, but it always seemed to be uphill 🙂
Visiting the Dortmund Bittermark War memorial built to Honor ca 300 Victims who were brutally executed in the nearby forests.
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[Music] [Applause] Hello. Hope you’re all doing very well today. As we can see, the sun is out better than the other day when I got completely soaked, but I dried off pretty quick. Today we’re traveling from Dortmund Applebee past the Fernic Sea or the Fernish Lake as we’re going to call it in England and then moving on to Dortmund Bittermark where we will visit the memorial. [Music] [Music] [Music] Between Fernick Lake and the former Fernx West Blast Furnace stands the Viadak Himpundal Bridge built from 1891 to 1901. One, it carries slack trains from Ferns West and the Hermans for steel works to the Himpendal slack heap. It collapsed in the 1950s, leaving only two ab butmans, each 30 m long, 24 m high, and 4 1/2 m wide. Another day, another hill. Nearly at the top, though. Oh, there you go. There’s a lot of nothing up here. I haven’t been up here before. Not much wonder really when there’s nothing else. There’s a Florian term in middle of Dortmund in West Farland Park. Up the top there’s a skywalk where you can walk along in summer as far as I know. I don’t know if it’s still open, but apparently you can walk along it if you’re into that sort of thing. Can’t see much pointing it myself. It’s not that high, but there you go. He looks a bit rough. [Music] Now you know what these are for on the steps so you can push your bike up it. Whoop! [Music] [Music] D. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] Now, Dortmund mark going uphill as always. Turn to the monument. Should be there. Oh yeah. Yeah, the Bittermark Memorial in Dortmund honors approximately 300 victims, including false laborers, prisoners of war, and members of the German resistance who were executed by the Gestapo between March the 7th and April 12th, 1945, just before American troops arrived in the city. Plans for the memorial began in 1953 with construction taking place between 1955 and 1960. It was designed by architect Will Schwartz and the sculptor Carol Nesra using concrete and shell limestone. The exterior features powerful reliefs and sculptures, a kneeling figure, barbed wire motives, and scenery symbolizing suffering and oppression under the Nazi regime. Inside the memorial houses a crypt designed by Leon Zach, featuring mosaic artwork and a symbolic tomb of a French force laborer. The word pax, Latin for peace, is inscribed, serving as a lasting call for peace and reconciliation. Uniquely, the crib’s interior is recognized as French national territory, symbolizing postwar reconciliation between France and Germany. Each Good Friday, the site becomes the center of Dorman’s largest remembrance event, attended by many who come to reflect and honor the victims. The victims were originally buried in bomb craters throughout the forest of Peter Mark and Rombo Park. Their remains were exhumed and reeried in a collected grave in 1954 and the memorial was established to ensure their stories would not be forgotten. Today, the Bittermark Memorial serves not only as a place of mourning, but as a powerful education site, a permanent reminder of the crimes committed during the Nazi era and a commitment to preserving historical memory. [Music] [Music] Hold down the d. Hello. [Applause] So halfway for today. Um, great weather. Sun’s out but a bit cloudy. A lot of flies. Uh, if I sound out of breath cuz I’m walking uphill. [Music] [Music] Oh, [Music] holy. [Music] Oh, [Music] hold down. [Music] So, now back at the Fernix in Dortmund. Um, coming to the end of the video. Thank you very much for watching. Have a good day. Bye-bye.