Memorial for the March Fallen  - Denkmal für die Märzgefallenen

The modern-looking memorial was created by the director of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, on behalf of the trade union cartel. It is intended to commemorate the people who sacrificed their lives in 1920 to defeat the right-wing radical Kapp Putsch.

After the co-founder of the German Fatherland Party, Wolfgang Kapp, declared the Reich government deposed and the National Assembly dissolved on March 13, 1920, the government called for resistance and the unions called for a general strike. In Weimar, thousands of demonstrators gathered in front of the Weimar People's House, 35 of whom were seriously injured and nine workers were killed in an attack by Naumburg hunters. The monument designed by Gropius was erected in honor of the deceased over seven of the nine graves and inaugurated on May 1, 1922.

The monument was created in an expressionist style with crystalline structures made of concrete in the shape of a lightning bolt and was one of the first abstract monuments in Germany at the time. Gropius commented: "The lightning bolt from the grave as a symbol of the living spirit." The monument was originally planned in limestone, but was actually made in concrete with the addition of shell limestone and black and white terrazzo grain. Gropius worked on the design with the Bauhaus sculpture workshop, where a preliminary plaster model was also created.

During the Nazi regime, the main body, "the Blitz", and the small pyramid were blown up in 1935, so that only the flat parts of the monument continued to cover the grave field. The reconstruction of the monument took place immediately after the end of the war. On March 23, 1946, the official inauguration of the monument took place as part of a memorial event in honor of the Kapp Putsch victims. The inscription "To those who fell in March 1920" was unveiled and can still be read today when visiting the memorial site at this spot.