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Wiesenfeld
Main-Spessart (Unterfranken)
 
On the south facade of the parochial church in Wiesenfeld, there is a memorial for the combatants of the war in 1870/71. Below the sculpture of a Bavarian lion with a crown and an Iron Cross, there is a large square black marble plaque with the following inscription:

Durch wunderbaren Schutz Gottes kehrten sämtliche hiesige Feldzugs-Soldaten von 1870/71 auf die Fürbitte der himmlischen Gottesmutter, deren Schutz sich dieselben bei Beginn des Krieges empfohlen hatten, unversehrt in ihre Heimat zurück.

(under the protection of God and with the intercession of the Mother of God, whose protection they had asked for when the war began, all the combatants of 1870/71 from this place safely returned home)

Among the names of the 38 soldiers who returned home, you will find the two Jewish combatants:

 

 
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Mich. Rosenberger

and

Markus Baum.