Stumbling blocks are memorials to people who abducted during the Nazi regiment, tortured, murdered, were driven to suicide or forced to leave their homes saw.
The stumbling blocks are laid in the sidewalks in front of the former residences of the victims. On the surface of 10 x 10 cm large memorial stones, a brass plaque attached, which is provided with names and dates of the victims.
Initiator of the stumbling blocks is the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig, who initiated this project in 1997 with the laying of the first stumbling block in life.
A highly dedicated project group of Melanchthon High School in Bretten has taken up this European project and implemented in an app for Bretten:
"More than 61,000 stumbling blocks (as of July 2017) are located in more than 300 locations in Germany and abroad, including Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Prague and Budapest. Also in Bretten 33 stumbling blocks were laid. "
The exact location of the stumbling blocks in Bretten they can discover in this virtual tour.
Find out which people and fates behind the laid stones stuck. Within the app you to navigate "from stone to stone" and can short biographies which is thought with the stones of the people, can be displayed.
"So we try to history" "to design and implement at the same time a reminder to the present. 'Alive
Project Group Melanchthon High School in Bretten.
The app also navigated offline, there is no internet connection needed. We do not use personal data.
This project was of "Cursum" - sponsored Vogt-Franck GbR, the contents of the app comes exclusively from the group of students!
Other sponsors are welcome to this we will be happy to report on the partner side of the app via logo and web link!