Ludwig Knoop statue

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Ludwig Knoop statue

The Ludwig Knoop statue , sometimes also (sculpture) Baron Ludwig Knoop or Baron Knoop for short , is a bronze statue in Bremen - Burglesum in Knoops Park , which was made in 1995 in honor of the Bremen merchant Ludwig Knoop (1821-1894) and on the occasion of his 100th anniversary of death last year. It is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen .

Ludwig Knoop

Ludwig Knoop was a textile processing wholesaler in Bremen who worked in Manchester and became one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Russia and Estonia . Alexander II awarded him the title of baron . In 1859 he bought the Mühlenthal estate in St. Magnus in Bremen, Switzerland , and expanded the building. In 1871 he moved into the new Mühlenthal Castle planned by Gustav Runge and Wilhelm Benque created an English landscape park. In 1881 Knoop founded a shipping company in Bremen for merchant shipping to western Siberia. He was also a member of the board of directors of Norddeutscher Lloyd .

Knoops Park

After Ludwig Knoop's death in 1894, Mühlenthal Castle and its lands passed to the eldest son Johann. As a result of the First World War and the Russian Revolution , the family lost all of their possessions in England and Russia, only the cotton mill on the Estonian island of Kränholm was initially retained. Mühlenthal Castle, which had not been used for a long time, fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1933.

In 1936 the Mühlenthal estate became the property of the Lesum community and the park could be preserved. In 1939 a public park, which was named Knoops Park , was built there according to plans by the garden architect Christian Roselius under the direction of gardening director Richard Homann . This was the first time that a monument was erected to its famous founder.

The monument

The memorial was created on the initiative of the Knoops Park e. V. , Bremen, and created by the Bremen sculptor Claus Homfeld (* 1933). The realistically designed bronze statue shows Baron Ludwig Knoop as a "friendly elderly gentleman" in the posture of a stroller, in a paletot and with a walking stick, the removed melon-like hat in his hand. It was set up in the middle of his former estate in St. Magnus, in the park named after him and near his former Mühlenthal castle. The statue is life-size and stands on a low natural stone base. It was financed by the Waldemar Koch Foundation and inaugurated on October 28, 1995.

From Homfeld come u. a. the Ottjen-Alldag-Plastik (1964) in Schnoor , the Homfeldbrunnen (1991) in Grohn , the Magdalene-Pauli-Monument (2001) in St. Magnus , the milkmaid in Borgfeld and the Arster market women in Arsten .

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Individual evidence

The individual references given at the end of each paragraph refer to the entire paragraph before.

  1. ^ Hans Jaeger:  Knoop, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 212 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b c About Knoops Park ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: Website of the Knoops Park e. V. , Bremen (www.foerderverein-knoops-park.de); accessed on February 6, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.foerderverein-knoops-park.de
  3. ↑ a b Ilse Windhoff, Nils Aschenbeck : Lesum and Knoops Park (=  country houses and villas in Bremen , volume 1). Aschenbeck, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-939401-31-5 .
  4. ↑ Jürgen Wendler: Ludwig Knoop in life size. Support association wants to erect a monument / The industrialist as a nice, older gentleman. In: Die Norddeutsche from December 10, 1994, title page. *
  5. ↑ Manfred Wurthmann: Knoop back in the park. Unveiled bronze monument of the noble industrialist. In: Kurier am Sonntag of October 29, 1995, p. 5. *
  6. ↑ k: art in public space bremen : Ludwig Knoop statue
  7. ^ K: art in public space bremen : Klaus Homfeld
  * Note: The corresponding newspaper article is available online via the digital newspaper archive of Bremer Tageszeitungen AG (subject to a charge).

Coordinates: 53 ° 9 ′ 52.3 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 26.2"  E