Countess Emma Monument
The Countess Emma Monument is a sculpture in Bremen - Burglesum , Lesumer Markt, which was erected in 2009. It is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen .
The monument from 2009 in bronze with a coloring surface treatment and gold leaf, commissioned by the Lesum Heimat- und Beautification Association , was created by the sculptor Christa Baumgärtel . From her in Bremen still u. a. the works Kaisenbüste (1985), memorial for Mudder Cordes (1987), seal (1990), man and woman (1992), Vegesacker Wal-Kiefer and the Kaisen memorial (2012) in the Bremen ramparts . The sculptor Lothar Rieke was involved in the execution.
Countess Emma
The work of art is a memory of Countess Emma von Lesum (975 / 980-1038), last wife of Count Liudger von Lesum († 1011), son of the Saxon Margrave Hermann Billung and brother of Duke Bernhard I of Saxony . Emma had lived on her estate Lesum since 1011, presumably in St. Magnus , where the Lesmona house now stands. Emma was a benevolent landowner who was venerated as a saint after her death.
According to a legend, Countess Emma bequeathed the citizens of Bremen the Bürgerweide . Her brother-in-law Benno, Duke Bernhard I of Saxony (around 950 / 973-1011) (but possibly his son Bernhard II ), however, decreed that the donation should only include the part of the site that a cripple would crawl around from sunrise to sunset could. The Bürgerweide was a common property of the city (today partly the Bürgerpark Bremen ), confirmed in the Bremer Weidebrief since 1159 . The monument to Countess Emma and Duke Benno in Bremen- Schwachhausen commemorates this.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 5.4 " N , 8 ° 41 ′ 29.5" E