Auguste Zabel

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Plaster model of the Zabel monument, designed by Heinrich Günther-Gera

Auguste Zabel , born as Auguste Henriette Schüler , (* January 8, 1808 in Gera ; † February 26, 1884 ibid) was the founder of today's Zabel-Gymnasium in Gera.

Life

She was the daughter of the very wealthy hospital manager Johann Heinrich Schüler (after whom a street in Gera is named). She married Karl Friedrich Gotthelf Zabel , 37 years her senior, who was also a very wealthy pharmacist . The marriage remained childless. Both had a keen interest in a good school education for girls, which was anything but natural in the 19th century. As a donor, you were very socially committed in the city. After the death of her husband in 1847, Auguste Zabel continued to be socially committed. In the event of her own death, she bequeathed the city a total fortune of over a million marks in land and cash, which was used, among other things, to support and promote the secondary school for girls. In the years after her death, she got her own school building, today's Zabel-Gymnasium.

Appreciation

At the end of the 1870s, today's Zabelstrasse, where the Zabel grammar school is located, was named after the Zabel couple. At the building of the Zabel-Gymnasium, at that time still the 'Zabelsche Higher Daughters School', the 'Zabel Memorial', created by the Gera-born sculptor Heinrich Günther-Gera, was unveiled on September 24, 1895. It shows the founder couple Zabel in a semi-relief medallion and a lot of symbolism in the scene below. A leaf garland is attached under the medallion . A pearl grave wreath with a bow and ribbons leans against the stele. In front of it a girl and a young woman decorate the garland with a palm frond and fresh roses . The monument was dismantled during World War II. On Clara-Zetkin-Strasse in front of the school building, the 'Zabelstein', created by Ullrich Holland , was set up in 2000 in memory . On July 10, 2010, a Gera tram locomotive was named in her honor . Ms. Zabel was depicted on a commemorative medal for the anniversary '125 years of the Zabel School' together with the school building, the 'Zabel Monument' and the 'Zabelstein'.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Strunkowski: September 24th, 1895: In memory of the Zabel couple. In: gera-chronik.de , Marco Trampel, accessed on September 1, 2018.
  2. ^ Manfred Taubert: Sculptures and sculptures in Gera. , Self-published, Gera 2014.
  3. ↑ Zabelstein. In: gera.de , Stadtverwaltung Gera, accessed on September 7, 2018.
  4. ↑ Christine Schimmel: Memento in silver for the anniversary of the Gera Zabelgymnasium. In: gera.otz.de , OTZ Ostthüringer Zeitung, April 4, 2014, accessed on September 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Zabel, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Student, Auguste Henriette (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder in Gera
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1884
Place of death Gera