Alexander Pushkin Monument Weimar
The Alexander Pushkin monument in Weimar Park on the Ilm close to the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in addition to the library tower at the intersection of Pushkin Street and Ackerwand rests on a 1.30-meter-high pedestal from limestone .
With his expressive monumental bronze bust, inaugurated on November 27, 1949 on the occasion of the 150th birthday of the Russian poet and Goethe admirer , the sculptor Johannes Friedrich Rogge paid tribute to the Soviet rulers and at the same time symbolized the connection between Russian and German culture.
Goethe, whose birthday was 200 years old in the same year, was for his part an admirer of Pushkin and sent him a pen to Russia. Pushkin himself had never been to Weimar in person. In Gera on Schloßgasse, on the other hand, a Pushkin memorial reminds the poet holding a pen of this episode.
Behind the Princely House of Weimar runs Puschkinstrasse, the end of which is, so to speak, the monument.
Web links
- https://www.weimar-lese.de/index.php?article_id=441
- http://www.weimarpedia.de/uploads/wpj/mediafiles/Denkmaeler_Weimar.pdf
- http://www.literaturland-thueringen.de/orte/alexander-puschkin-denkmal-in-weimar/
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 41.2 ″ N , 11 ° 19 ′ 55.8 ″ E