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| Pictures from Moosburg |
The Stalag fountain in memory of the Moosburg POW camp |
 The Stalag fountain was erected in the new town
as a memorial of the Moosburg prisoner of war camp called
Stalag VII A. Its
creator, the French sculptor Antoniucci Volti (1915-1989),
was himself one of the Allied soldiers interned there in
World War II. The reliefs were sculpted in a Moosburg
stone-mason's wokshop during that time. A model and a different design
of the memorial are on display in the Moosburg Heimatmuseum.
Pictures: © Town of Moosburg |
 The reliefs on the fountain represent the detained
artist's home country as allegories of four of France's rivers.
The river Garonne is a woman with a vine and a little Bacchus -
allusions of the wine region Bordeaux. |
 The female Loire has a dove in her hand - the bird
of Venus. A little Cupid aims his bow and arrow at her. The
topic of love probably relates to the pleasure castles of the
French kings on the river Loire. |
 The river Rhône is a nude man. Behind him, a boy
takes a Provence bull by the horns. |
 The river Seine is personified as a woman. She
is accompanied by a boy with a sailing ship - the city arms
of Paris.
Pictures: © WebTeam Moosburg |
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