Siegesdenkmal

It was erected at the northern edge of the historic center of Freiburg im Breisgau next to the former Karlskaserne (barracks).

Professor Caspar von Zumbusch from Munich and Reinhold Begas from Berlin earned second and third places respectively.

[2] The sculptural and ornamental elements were made in the Bildgießerei ("casting house") of Lenz in Nürnberg and the work on the granite was conducted by local sculptor Alberto Luratti.

When the government was collecting metal in 1940, Robert Heinrich Wagner, the Gauleiter (district leader) on the Upper Rhine (Baden and Alsace), requested the monument to be given to Adolf Hitler as a birthday present.

[4] At the old location of the Siegesdenkmal, a big crossroads was built, with tram and bus stations and a pedestrian underpass.

In the course of the construction work on the Rotteckring, which started in 2014 and are anticipated to last to 2018, it is planned to move the monument back to its original place.

Even if its architecture appears slightly too soft and too bluntly structured.With the defensive posture of the four warriors in the four corners of the base body, the artist thoughtfully depicts the main aspect of that glorious battle, where the challenge was not to attack, as the opponents did, but to defend the open door of the unprotected fatherland to the last man.

Thus, three German men are now honored with memorials in Freiburg: Rotteck, Bertold Schwarz and Werder.