Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Hain

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The Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Hain with the Carl-Maria-von-Weber monument
originally (1891)
The bust of Carl Maria von Weber
The relief with the scene from the opera Der Freischütz

The Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Hain (often referred to as "Weberhain" for short) is a grove of honor for the composer Carl Maria von Weber in his home town of Eutin in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein . The Carl-Maria-von-Weber monument is located there .

Grove of Honor

The Ehrenhain is a grove located near the center of Eutin , in which - slightly elevated on an open space - the monument is surrounded by a low wrought iron grating. The grove has a triangular floor plan and is bordered to the southwest by Carl-Maria-von Weber-Strasse and north-northeast by Charlottenstrasse .

On the south-eastern side, the open space is closed off by a low stone wall, about 1.5 m high in the middle . In the middle part of the wall there is a relief with a scene from the opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber.

monument

The memorial consists of a head-high, square column (" obelisk ") made of red granite on which there is a bust of Carl Maria von Weber and which has a laurel wreath decorated with bows on the front with the inscription "Karl Maria von Weber" in golden letters.

Originally there was a figure of the muse Polyhymnia next to the column - these were removed during the Second World War and melted down as non-ferrous metal .

Emergence

The memorial was erected in 1890 by the Weber Society to honor Carl Maria von Weber, who was born in Eutin in 1786 .

A design competition was held in 1887, which was won by the Schwartau sculptor Paul Peterich , who then created the bust and the figures. The monument itself was financed by donations.

inauguration

A festive dedication took place on July 1st, 1890. At the beginning 150 singers and 55 instrumentalists performed on site under the musical direction of the Eutin organist Carl Heynsen Weber's Freischützmesse . The singing soloists were Mathilde Brandt-Görtz from Hamburg, Clara Nittschalk from Berlin, as well as Carl Dierich and Otto Drewes from Schwerin . The concert master was the violinist Henry Schradieck . The choir was formed from Eutin and Lübeck choral societies. After the monument was unveiled, the scheduled speech was postponed due to adverse weather.

After a pageant of the company through Eutin, the musicians gave a concert in a festival hall in the afternoon, the program of which consisted of works by Webers and at which the poet Detlev von Liliencron gave the speech.

Others

The Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Hain is designated as a natural monument .

swell

The Weberhain as it was in 1907 with a weaver hall

literature

  • Egon Jacob - The Weber monument in Eutin was one hundred years old - in: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde, Eutin 1990 (page 137-141)
  • Georg Harders - The Sculptor Professor Paul Peterich - Life and Work , Bad Schwartau 1988 (Mention of the origin and history of the monument)
  • Otto Rönnpag - Who donated for Carl Maria von Weber's monument? - in: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde, Eutin 1993 (pages 90–91)

Web links

Commons : Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Hain  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • The monument on the homepage of the city of Eutin: [1]
  • Image of the monument with the figure of the muse Polyhymnia: [2]
  • Regarding the designation of the Weberhain as a natural monument: ( PDF )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Kunst und Musikzeitung , 1890, 20, page 182
  2. ↑ The Piano Teacher , Volume 13, Peiser, Berlin 1890, page 183

Coordinates: 54 ° 7 ′ 50.5 ″  N , 10 ° 37 ′ 24.6 ″  E