Stolpersteine Deutschland

An app to remember people who must never be forgotten.

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 37,000, 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 the first stumbling block in 1992, and there are now more than 100,000 in over 1,000 German municipalities and 30 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 February 2025)

Aachen, Arnstadt, Aschaffenburg

Bad Kissingen, Bad Kreuznach, Bad Oldesloe, Bad Segeberg, Bamberg

Berlin, Bernau near Berlin, Bielefeld

Bochum, Bonn, Bottrop, Bremen, Bremervörde

Castrop-Rauxel, Chemnitz, Coburg, Cottbus

Dahme-Spreewald, Darmstadt, Dinslaken, Dortmund, Dresden, Duisburg, Düsseldorf

Eberswalde, Essen, Ettlingen

Falkensee, Frankfurt am Main, Freiberg (Saxony), Freiburg

Geldern

Halle (Saale), Hamburg, Hanover, Helmstedt, Herzogenrath, Hohen Neuendorf

Iserlohn

Jena

Karlsruhe, Kassel, Kiel, Kleinmachnow, Koblenz, Cologne, Konstanz, Krefeld

Lampertheim, Lahnstein, Leipzig, Lübeck, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Lüneburg

Magdeburg, Mannheim, Marburg, Meppen, Munich, Münster

Nabburg, Nassau, Neumünster, Nierstein, Nuremberg

Offenburg, Oppenheim, Oranienburg

Paderborn, Penzberg, Potsdam

Recklinghausen, Regensburg, Remscheid, Rendsburg

Saarbrücken, Schacht-Audorf, Schöningen, Schwerin, Siegen, Solingen, Stahnsdorf, Straubing, Stuttgart

Teltow, Trier

Uedem

Waltrop, Weinsberg, Wiesbaden, Woltersdorf, Worms, Wuppertal, Würselen, Würzburg

Zeven