Two worlds pillar
The two worlds column is a triangular column in Gotha ( Thuringia ).
history
The monument was created in 1824 by Jacob Rathgeber on behalf of Duke Friedrich IV for the pleasure garden of the Prinzenpalais . In this former pleasure garden - today allotment gardens - the building is still today, on the border of two garden plots.
The memorial shows reliefs from a Greek legend on three sides, based on Plato's “ two worlds theory ”.
On the south side you can see two boys embracing and in good times. On the west side again the two boys. One holds the other back from something threatening and points warningly to a flame of fire. Then on the northeast side the bitter end: One boy holds the other dead in his arms. Presumably, the artist intentionally set up the column so that the sun never shines on this side.
The base bears the inscription “I. RATHGEBER INVENIT ET FECIT “(J. Rathgeber invented [me] and made [me]), underneath, no longer completely, a year.
North-eastern side facing away from the sun
Western side
literature
- Local history for the residents of the Duchy of Gotha , Gotha 1845
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Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 41.8 " N , 10 ° 42 ′ 51.6" E