Bismarck mausoleum
The Bismarck mausoleum is the burial place of Otto Fürst von Bismarck and his wife Johanna von Puttkamer on the Schneckenberg in Friedrichsruh . The chapel is now a listed building.
description
Otto von Bismarck's grave is located in the upper part of the chapel. The epitaph he has appointed himself: "A faithful servant of German Kaiser Wilhelm I." In the lower part, which is not open to the public, is the burial place of the von Bismarck family. Herbert von Bismarck and his wife and Otto von Bismarck and his wife rest there. The grave of Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen is located in the area around the chapel . The chapel and the grounds are still owned by the Bismarcks family, but can be viewed and rented for private celebrations.
history
The Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg came to Prussia through the Gastein Convention . When the Empire was founded in 1871, Bismarck received the Sachsenwald as a donation from Kaiser Wilhelm I. The Reich Chancellor built Friedrichsruh as a retirement home. He is said to have chosen the place of his burial himself so that the railway line between Friedrichsruh Palace and the mausoleum prevents a pompous state act planned by Kaiser Wilhelm II . Initially, the Kaiser had considered burying Bismarck in the princely crypt of the Berlin Cathedral . Theodor Fontane intervened in this discussion in favor of Friedrichsruh, with his poem written on July 31, 1898: "Where Bismarck should lie ...." It appeared in the Vossische Zeitung on August 3, 1898, four days after Bismarck's death. The whole empire was moved by the event. Even in front of the Propylaea in Munich, on August 12, 1898, there was a night-time funeral ceremony illuminated by torches. Then his son, Herbert von Bismarck, commissioned the burial chapel from the architect Ferdinand Schorbach . In the neo-Romanesque style, the floor plan of the octagon is said to have been taken from the mausoleum of Theodoric in Ravenna . Six months after his death, on March 16, 1899, the coffins of Otto von Bismarck and his wife, who had previously rested in Varzin , were buried in two sarcophagi made of Untersberg marble in the chapel. Choosing this date underscored Bismarck's ties to Kaiser Wilhelm I, who had been buried in the mausoleum in the Charlottenburg Palace Park eleven years earlier to the day . On the occasion of the burial , the German Emperor Wilhelm II appeared with his wife and large entourage. In the past, the grave chapel was also often used as a central point of contact for memorial events, e.g. B. of the Bismarck Federation e. V. has been used.
The survivors of the German battleship Bismarck, sunk in 1941, also met here for a memorial service on May 27th .
literature
- Rolf Hennig: The Sachsenwald. (= Series of publications by the Duchy of Lauenburg Foundation. Volume 6). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1983, ISBN 3-529-06180-8 , pp. 88-94, 122-123.
- Renate Marklein-Hebbel (Ed.): Bismarck Museum and Friedrichsruh Mausoleum. Isensee, Oldenburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89995-541-5 .
- Peter Pinnau: Where Bismarck should be - a princely crypt in the Sachsenwald. Jonitzer Verlag Dessau, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-945927-02-1 .
- Henning von Rumohr, Hubertus Neuschäffer: Castles and mansions in Schleswig-Holstein. Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-8035-1216-6 , p. 390.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bismarck mausoleum and its surroundings (No. 49621). In: List of monuments in the Herzogtum Lauenburg district, Aumühle, p. 1 ( PDF ).
- ^ Bernhard von Bülow: Memorabilia. Volume 1: From the State Secretariat to the Morocco Crisis. Ullstein, Berlin 1930, p. 231 ( online ); Henning von Rumohr, Hubertus Neuschäffer: Castles and mansions in Schleswig-Holstein. Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-8035-1216-6 , p. 390.
- ↑ Marcus Schymiczek: 92-year-old from Essen is the last survivor of the "Bismarck". In: DerWesten.de. May 14, 2016, accessed November 5, 2019 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '39.4 " N , 10 ° 20' 9.6" E