Friedrich Pötzl Monument
In front of the old primary school in Lauffen
In front of the old primary school in Lauffen
The monument commemorates poet Friedrich Pötzl, a local of Lauffen, as engraved in a small plaque on the shaft. It was presumably erected in the 1990s by Leopold Bürscher. Pötzl (1893 – 1956) lived at Lauffen 64. His most famous work is the Lauffner Song (Lauffner Lied), also known as My Lauffner Valley (Mei Lauffnertal).
The granite plaque with the aforementioned poem leans against a boulder that has been wildly shaped by weathering. Behind the plaque, in a copper sheet, gable-roofed cabinet on a baluster-like wooden pole, there is a portrait of the poet. On the shaft is a copper sheet vase.
