Mound with the remains of a monument to the residents of Labes who fell in the First World War, entered in the heritage register in 2013.
Roland's Mound in Łobez is a hill with the remains of a monument to the town's residents who fell in the First World War. The mound was heaped up in the 1920s by the residents of what was then Labes, today Łobez, and since 2013 the site has been listed in the heritage register.
In 1922 the residents decided to commemorate the 208 people from Łobez who had fallen in the First World War. The construction was financed from voluntary donations, and the work was done as community labour with the participation of 1096 people who were then unemployed. The figure of Roland was designed by the Berlin sculptor Hans Dammann, and the whole was prepared by the studio of Fritz Richter-Elsner. On the slope of the mound four terraces were laid out, connected by stone steps and decorated with structures of boulders. The monument with its pedestal was 10.5 metres high.
The monument was unveiled on 1 August 1926. The knight on the plinth was surrounded by seven square columns with plaques bearing the names of the 208 fallen. The ceremony was led by the Reich President Paul von Hindenburg. In 1931 the surroundings were rebuilt.
In 1945 the monument was partly blown up, and its remains were blown up again in the early 1970s. The remains of the seven columns and the boulder structures on the slope were considerably devastated over the years. In 2013 Roland's Hill was entered in the register of immovable monuments of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. Associations then cleaned the steps and the area of the mound, and in 2016 a decision was taken to revitalise the site.
By the cemetery in Łobez there is a lapidarium of its own, with a Wall of Remembrance “To Those Who Lived on This Land”, with recovered fragments of gravestones from the former German cemetery, dedicated to the town's former residents.
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