Bismarck Monument (Düren)
The Bismarck monument in Düren is on Bismarckstrasse in Theodor-Heuss-Park. It is a listed sculpture . The larger than life neoclassical bronze - statue of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck with the charter of the imperial proclamation in hand was 1891-1892 by the sculptor Joseph Uphues created.
After the original memorial suffered severe war damage in 1944, only the Bismarck statue was repositioned on a simple, low plinth. The old base and the flanking representations (relief portraits of the Prussian generals Albrecht von Roon and Helmuth von Moltke , sculpture by the muse Klio ) have not been preserved, so the overall artistic concept is no longer comprehensible today.
literature
- Dehio manual of German art monuments: North Rhine-Westphalia I: Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2005, p. 276.
Web links
Commons : Bismarck Memorial - Collection of Images
- Website of the city of Düren about the honorary citizen Bismarck and the Bismarck monument , last accessed on February 13, 2011
- Website of the Wirteltor-Gymnasium with information about the monument , last accessed on February 13, 2011
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 22 ″ N , 6 ° 29 ′ 11 ″ E