Bismarck Monument (Eisenach)

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The Bismarck monument on Wartburgallee around 1905
The former location of the monument in 2011 (left half of the picture)

The Bismarck Monument was a memorial in Eisenach to honor the longstanding Prussian Prime Minister and first German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck .

history

Bismarck monuments were erected in many parts of the German Empire until the end of the First World War . Eisenach received the Bismarck Tower on the Wartenberg in the north of the city as early as 1902 .

A year later, the Bismarck monument , donated by Julius von Eichel-Streiber and created based on a design by Adolf von Donndorf , was consecrated at the entrance to the Eisenach city park on Wartburgallee . It was a bronze sculpture on a stone pedestal. After the Second World War, the monument was dismantled and presumably melted down. By 1963 the base was also completely removed.

Individual evidence

  1. Festival Committee (Ed.): The consecration of the Bismarckian column on the Wartenberg near Eisenach on October 19, 1902 . Hofbuchdruckerei Kahle, Eisenach 1902, p. 26 .
  2. Reinhold Brunner, That was the 20th century in Eisenach, Wartberg Verlag 2000, ISBN 9783861349709 , page 7
  3. Reinhold Brunner, That was the 20th century in Eisenach, Wartberg Verlag 2000, ISBN 9783861349709 , page 65