Eagle monument (Althaldensleben)

The eagle monument in the Haldensleben district of Althaldensleben is located on Adlerplatz and was erected in its current form in 1848 to commemorate the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig . Accordingly, it is also referred to as the “Monument to the Leipzig Battle of the Nations”. In the local register of monuments , the building is registered as a historically and town-planning important small monument.

Adlerplatz

The memorial stands on Adlerplatz , named after him , the triangular and approximately 300 square meter historical center of Althaldens life formed by Dieskaustraße and Neuhaldensleber Straße . The former village settlement of farm and factory workers was grouped around the former village square. Today's attraction of the square arises from the architectural diversity of the adjacent residential and commercial buildings, although the buildings themselves are of modest design. With the central eagle column and a more recent advertising column also set up here , the square now has a small-town feel.

At the beginning of the 2010s, the surfaces of the space and the main street ( Neuhaldensleber Straße ) were completely renewed. The bright surface of the square is sand-washed.

history

In 1815 a wooden column with an iron eagle was erected to commemorate the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig. After the dissolution of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia and the reassignment to Prussia , the community commemorated those who fell for freedom and as a reminder for the future with the monument. Four pyramid poplars were planted around the column . The inauguration of the monument took place on June 16, 1815. To celebrate, the community donated a flag to the Landsturm and the returning soldiers.

In the revolutionary year of 1848 , the column had to be replaced due to weather damage; it was replaced by a stone pillar and a new eagle. This exchange came through an agreement between the municipality and the Althaldensleben on the monastery based family of Nathusius about. The re-inauguration took place on October 15, 1848, the birthday of Friedrich Wilhelm IV . A makeshift dance hall had been built out of lumber, and it was celebrated for three days. The celebratory speech was given by the accounting officer Böttcher from the monastery property.

When choosing the material, the decision was made in favor of the pink sandstone, which was popular in the region during the Biedermeier period . The date “15. October 1848 “carved. The cast iron eagle came from a foundry in the Harz region . The old eagle was given to the Simultankirche in Althaldensleben for safekeeping . When a memorial column was also erected in Irxleben in 1863 (to commemorate the appeal “ To My People ” of March 17, 1813), the design was based on the column in Althaldensleben: shape, material and eagle are the same.

The Althaldensleber local history researcher Otto Dieskau described the importance of the monument in 1923:

“What the Roland Neuhaldensleben ; this is the eagle column in our place: an ornament for a free space and a historical monument "

- Otto Dieskau

In the GDR era, the eagle was removed, it was considered a symbol of militarism . It was replaced by a Young Pioneers emblem . After a resolution by the city council on April 14, 1951, the name of the square was also changed to "Platz der Junge Pioniere" or, for a shorter time, to "Pionierplatz". The new name did not catch on in the parlance of the Althaldensleber residents. The eagle, which was eliminated under Real Socialism , was replaced in 1993 by a donation from the von Nathusius family under Heinrich von Nathusius ; on October 15, 1993 an eagle was placed on the column again. It was made in Lauchhammer .

Annually, the proclamation of the shooting king pair of the shooting association Althaldenleben takes place on the Adlerplatz . The Schützenbund has an image of the eagle in its coat of arms.

description

The five-meter-high stele , which stands on a massive base with a diameter of 90 cm, has a square section and tapers towards the top. In the lower area it has a diameter of 60 centimeters. The column is made of Alvensleber red sandstone . The pillar supporting the year of inauguration on October 15, 1848 still exists today. The dilapidated head of the column was made from Weser sandstone on the occasion of the re-erection of the eagle in 1993 . The column is crowned by a standing eagle with outstretched wings. Its wingspan is 1.20 meters and it wears a crown. Its body faces north; the head is (observing / warning) turned in the direction of Prussian Berlin to the southeast. Today's (third) eagle is made of bronze .

Remarks

↑ The dates of the erection and inauguration of the wooden eagle column vary. The year 1813 is mentioned in the list of monuments, in Dieskau 1815 (Part V, 23rd Paper) and 1816 (Part II, 9th Paper). Regional media, the local chroniclers of the Haldensleber Heimatpflegeverein and the Haldensleber Museum date the list to 1815.

Web links

Commons : Adlerdenkmal (Althaldensleben) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Historical photos of the Adlerplatz and the Eagle Column

literature

Adlerplatz , in: Hahaldesleve - Haldensleben: Historischer Rundgang Althaldensleben , Ortschronisten Althaldensleben in the Association for the Promotion of Culture and Home Care eV (ed.), Haldensleben 2006, p. 20

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c List of monuments of the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt , May 22, 2017, page 678, Haldensleben-Hundisburg, registration number: 094 30570, date of registration: August 6, 1998.

^ Georg Dehio , Handbook of German Art Monuments: Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District, Volume 21, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002, p. 14.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Adlerplatz , at: Biedermeier in Haldensleben , on the website of the Ecomusées Haldensleben-Hundisburg.

↑ The historic squares Lindenplatz and Adlerplatz , in: Active Centers, Haldensleben Süd: Integrated Action Concept 2013 , City of Haldensleben, Althaldensleben district, Haldensleben Süd development area, developed by: SALEG Sachsen-Anhaltinische Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft, September 2013, p. 22.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Doris Warnecke, 17. Adlerplatz , Haldensleben's journey through time.

↑ ^a ^b ^c New eagle will be inaugurated tomorrow: pillar should commemorate liberators of the fatherland , October 14, 1993, Volksstimme .

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Otto Dieskau, Our Adlersäule , in: From Althaldensleben's Past , Part V, Chapter 23, Verlag von Simmerlein, Wochenblatt-Druckerei Neuhaldensleben, 1923, p. 3ff.

↑ Otto Dieskau , Hundred Years Ago , in: From Althaldensleben's Past , Part II, Chapter 9, Verlag von Simmerlein, Wochenblatt-Druckerei Neuhaldensleben, 1924, pp. 25f.

↑ Jens Kusian, Schützenbund continues tradition, August 18, 2014, Volksstimme.

52.265629 11.42134Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '56.3 " N , 11 ° 25' 16.8" E

[5] The dates of the erection and inauguration of the wooden eagle column vary. The year 1813 is mentioned in the list of monuments, in Dieskau 1815 (Part V, 23rd Paper) and 1816 (Part II, 9th Paper). Regional media, the local chroniclers of the Haldensleber Heimatpflegeverein and the Haldensleber Museum date the list to 1815.

[denk-1] List of monuments of the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt , May 22, 2017, page 678, Haldensleben-Hundisburg, registration number: 094 30570, date of registration: August 6, 1998.

[2] Georg Dehio , Handbook of German Art Monuments: Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District, Volume 21, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002, p. 14.

[eco-3] Adlerplatz , at: Biedermeier in Haldensleben , on the website of the Ecomusées Haldensleben-Hundisburg.

[4] The historic squares Lindenplatz and Adlerplatz , in: Active Centers, Haldensleben Süd: Integrated Action Concept 2013 , City of Haldensleben, Althaldensleben district, Haldensleben Süd development area, developed by: SALEG Sachsen-Anhaltinische Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft, September 2013, p. 22.