Munich massacre memorial in Munich, Memorial sculpture in Milbertshofen-Am Hart, Munich, Germany
The Klagebalken is a ten-metre-wide granite beam by sculptor Fritz Koenig, unveiled on 27 September 1995 in Munich's Olympiapark. It is supported at its centre by a pedestal and stands where a support cable of the stadium's tent-roof construction is anchored, on the path from the Olympiastadion to the former Olympic Village. The names of the eleven killed Israeli hostages are carved into the beam in Hebrew letters, and the name of Bavarian policeman Anton Fliegerbauer, who died in the rescue attempt at Fürstenfeldbruck, is carved in Latin letters.
Fritz Koenig's granite beam, ten metres wide and carried at its centre by a base, was unveiled on 27 September 1995 in the Olympiapark, on the path from the Olympiastadion to the former Olympic Village, where a support cable of the tent-roof construction is anchored. It commemorates the eleven Israeli hostages killed in the 1972 Munich attack; their names are carved in Hebrew letters, and that of Bavarian policeman Anton Fliegerbauer, who died in the failed rescue at Fürstenfeldbruck, in Latin letters.
The ten-metre granite beam carries the names of the eleven Israeli victims carved in Hebrew letters, among them David Berger, Yossef Gutfreund and Mosche Weinberg. In Latin script it also names Anton Fliegerbauer, the Bavarian policeman killed during the failed rescue at Fürstenfeldbruck. Visitors read the inscriptions on the spot where a cable of the stadium's tent roof is anchored.
The granite beam stands on the path linking the Olympiastadion with the former Olympic Village, at the point where a support cable of the tent-roof construction is anchored. Visitors reach it on foot through the Olympiapark; the names are carved into the stone itself, so no separate plaque explains them.
The granite beam is anchored exactly where a support cable of the stadium's tent-roof construction meets the ground, on the path from the Olympiastadion to the former Olympic Village. Eleven Israeli names are carved in Hebrew letters; the Bavarian policeman Anton Fliegerbauer is named in Latin script.
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