Bad Windsheimer Roland
The Bad Windsheim Roland is a war memorial in Bad Windsheim , on the market square near Kilian's Church.
history
The war memorial dedicated to the fallen soldiers of the Franco-Prussian War 1870/71 and the First World War , inaugurated on September 16, 1928, shows the pillar figure of a knight reminiscent of a statue of Roland . Strictly speaking, the term “Roland” is misleading because it refers to a statue of a knight in armor and with a bare sword, as they were erected in the Middle Ages as a symbol for certain city rights. Instead, the Bad Windsheim sculpture is reminiscent of war dead and is still relatively young.
In a competition for the war memorial that was held in 1919, 31 designs were submitted. The joint competition design by the Nuremberg sculptor Philipp Widmer (1870–1951) and the Nuremberg architect Fritz Mayer was selected and executed in 1927–1928 by M. Waldmann.
nature
The war memorial is eleven meters high. The eight-meter-high sculpture made from Crailsheim shell limestone depicts a knight who holds a sword in both hands in front of him. The Windsheim coat of arms is incorporated into the armor on the right. A plaque that was added later commemorates the fallen of the Second World War . The left side of the canopy bears the lettering "Den Lebenden zum Ermon".
Web links
- Roland of the city of Bad Windsheim in the Internet portal Straße der Rolande , last accessed on October 15, 2017
- Roland Bad Windsheim , private homepage - accessed on May 5, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Widmer, Philipp. In: Lexicon on Art in Switzerland , accessed on October 15, 2017
- ↑ Brochure City Tour, No. 1 ( Memento from September 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.1 MB)
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 8.9 ″ N , 10 ° 25 ′ 3 ″ E