In connection with the “Stolpersteine” art monument, we would like to digitally support the culture of remembrance of the victims of National Socialism. To do this, we use and compile publicly available data from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap. The personal stories and fates are made directly accessible at the places in Germany where they were written. There were already 20,000 stumbling blocks when the app was published in November 2022. There are now over 30,000, which we regularly add.

Stolpersteine ​​Germany is largely barrier-free and can be used by people with significant visual impairment and limited motor skills. The app was created by us on our own initiative without any tax or donation money.

The largest decentralized memorial in the world

“A person is only forgotten when his name is forgotten,” Gunter Demnig quotes the Talmud.

To commemorate the victims of the Nazi era, the artist places small brass memorial plaques on the sidewalk in front of their last chosen living or creative space. Demnig started with a first stumbling block in 1992, and now there are more than 96,000 in over 1,000 German municipalities and 26 countries. The art project is considered the largest decentralized memorial in the world and focuses on the people who were persecuted, murdered, deported or expelled during the Nazi regime.

Cities and places in the app (as of December 2023)

Bamberg
Berlin
Bernau near Berlin
Bonn
Bottrop
Bremen
Chemnitz
Coburg
cottbus
Dahme-Spreewald (district)
Darmstadt
Dortmund
Dresden
Dusseldorf
Eberswalde
Eat
Ettlingen
Falkensee
Frankfurt am Main
Freiburg
Geldern
Halle (Saale)
Hamburg
Hanover
Hohen Neuendorf
Iserlohn
Karlsruhe
kassel
Kiel
Koblenz
Cologne
Leipzig
Lübeck
Lüneburg
Munich
Muenster
Nuremberg
Offenburg
Oranienburg
Potsdam
Remscheid
Rendsburg
Schwerin
Solingen
Stahnsdorf
Stuttgart
Teltow
Uedem
Woltersdorf
Worms
Wuppertal
Würzburg