Stadterhebungsmonument
Bronze sculpture marking seven centuries of town rights, with battle scenes and a hidden date.
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This guide to the Stadterhebungsmonument in Düsseldorf starts on a battlefield near Cologne in June twelve eighty-eight, with a captured archbishop and the count who ended up holding him. It follows what a small Rhine village was actually handed when it became a town that August, and what it had to wait for. Stand close enough to the bronze to pick out the cart among the helmets and breastplates.
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