The history column in the middle of Görresplatz was donated to the city of Koblenz by the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1992 for the 2000th anniversary celebrations; the sculptor who carried it out was artist Prof. Jürgen Weber from Braunschweig. Each of the ten steps depicts a transformative episode in the city's history, starting with the Roman wine ship, through the warlike confrontations and phases of prosperity in the Electorate, to destruction and reconstruction in the 20th century.