Düppel monument

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Victory Monument from 1864 on a picture postcard (1915)
the four reliefs
Pioneer handle

The Düppel monument was a 22 meter high Prussian sandstone monument that was erected in 1872 on the foundation of Schanze 2 of the Düppeler Schanzen and, together with the Arnkiel monument, commemorated the Prussian troops and their victory in the German-Danish War .

planning

In 1864, after the German-Danish War , Kaiser Wilhelm I suggested that memorials be placed on the battlefield, as in Berlin. The court building officer Heinrich Strack was commissioned to carry out all projects. In 1867, funds totaling 330,000 thaler were approved for this. After about two years of construction, 38,652 and 33,300 thalers were accrued for the Düppel memorial and the Arnkiel memorial . For the Victory Column in Berlin, only 258,000 thaler remained.

Emergence

Following a royal decree of December 18, 1864, the foundation stone for the Victory Monument at Düppel was laid on April 21, 1865 in the presence of numerous guests of honor . The draft for the monument was created by the Berlin senior building officer Heinrich Strack . The German War delayed the start of construction until 1868. After the founding of the German Empire , the 20 m high monument was completed in August 1871 in the form of a Gothic pinnacle . At the top of from granite and sandstone from Obernkirchen created the monument is a relief medallion of was William I see. The ceremonial unveiling of the victory memorial was carried out on September 30, 1872 by the Prussian government commissioner. A second, very similar victory memorial was built near Arnkiel on Alsen , the so-called Arnkiel memorial .

description

The corner figures of the base represent two infantrymen in assault suits, a pioneer ( Carl Klinke ) and an artilleryman. Between the figures there is a relief: 1. War Council with Prince Friedrich Karl , Friedrich von Wrangel and the artillery general Gustav Eduard von Hindersin
2. Engineer Mertens, who
digs a trench with pioneers 3. Storming group with Sergeant Probst, who falls under the flag
4. Relief with the inscription: "Those who fell victoriously in the storming of the Düppler Schanzen on April 18, 1864 as a lasting memory"

Whereabouts

Since the transfer of North Schleswig in 1920, the memorial has been in Denmark. In May 1945, eight days after the end of World War II and the German occupation of Denmark , Danes blew up the memorial. The Arnkiel memorial followed in June 1945 . The ruins of the monuments were dumped in a nearby marl pit. A court order prohibited the then and future owners of the pit from ever digging up the rubble. A base relief that is exhibited in the Museum Schloss Sonderburg has been preserved.

German-Danish reconciliation monument

The Danish sculptor Kenn André Stilling suggested in 2011 that a reconciliation monument be erected on the site. In the same year there was a discussion about the installation of the Idstedt lion , which was also installed. To this end, the German sculptor Anselm Kiefer was supposed to create a sculpture in the form of a conciliatory German-Danish handshake by the anniversary year 2014. But an avalanche of letters to the editor to the Danish daily newspapers Jydske Vestkysten and Jyllands-Posten soon showed the initiators how hopeless this proposal was:

"Düppel symbolizes not only a Danish defeat, but also a Danish will to defend Danish law, the right to Schleswig"

- Guest contribution by a member of the board of the Randershofener Volkshochschule Rønshoved Højskole .

According to the chairman of the border association in Sonderburg, Christian Kronika, there is no need for reconciliation in Düppel. They wanted to keep Düppel as a purely Danish memory of the battle.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Alings: Monument and Nation: The Image of the Nation State in the Medium Monument - on the Relationship between Nation and State in the German Empire 1871-1918 (Contributions to the History of Communication, Volume 4), De Gruyter; 13. May 1996, ISBN 3110149850 , pp. 89-91
  2. ↑ North Schleswig - Boundary Drawings and Border Crossings. Monuments and their history in the German-Danish border area (Deutschlandradio Kultur 2014)
  3. ↑ SHZ of October 12, 2011 (accessed on February 25, 2020

Web links

Commons : Category: Prussian Düppel Monument  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Inge Adriansen: Erindringssteder i Danmark. Monumenter, mindesmærker og mødesteder , Museum Tusculanum, Copenhagen 2011, ISBN 978-87-635-3173-3 .
  • Ferdinand Pflug: The German-Danish War. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 1865/2009, ISBN 978-3-86777-090-3 .
  • Gerd Stolz: The German-Danish fateful year 1864. Husum, Husum 2010, ISBN 978-3-89876-499-5 .
  • The German Nordmark Ehrenwacht . In: The Gazebo . Volume 44, 1872, pp. 728-730 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • Harald Schmid: Memory spaces: images of history and cultures of remembrance in Northern Germany, V&R unipress; Edition: 1 (June 18, 2014), ISBN 3847102435

Web links

Commons : Prussian Düppel Monument  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 54 '4.5 "  N , 9 ° 45' 3.4"  E