Hanna Bieber-Boehm memorial Conservation restoration and reconstruction of the monument

Hanna Bieber-Boehm (1851 to 1910) was politically active in the women's movement and founded a home for "fallen" girls in Neuzelle. Her grave monument is located in a wooded area of the Neuzelle Abbey Foundation. It is an urn grave from 1910 or a little later, which was built from Kirchheim shell limestone as a symmetrical three-winged structure in Art Nouveau style. Before the work, the monument had been largely hidden in ruins among the bushes for decades. A graphic reconstruction was carried out on the basis of a photo and the measurements of the sections found. After salvaging all of the collapsed components, all of the existing stone was cleaned, repaired and restored. Missing parts could be reproduced from the matching limestone so that the monument could be rebuilt from the existing and supplemented stones.