Monument to King Friedrich I (Berlin)

Monument to King Friedrich I (Prussia) in front of Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin

The monument to King Friedrich I of Prussia is a memorial in Berlin .

It is an exact replica of the monument to King Frederick I in Königsberg , which had stood in front of the castle there in memory of Frederick I since 1802 and was lost after 1945. It was a work by Andreas Schlüter from 1697/98.

On the initiative of Gerhard Marcks and Waldemar Grzimek , two replicas were made in Berlin-Köpenick in 1972 based on a plaster copy of the original that had been found in the East Berlin State Gipsformerei . Based on a reproduction of the original base, a work by the building researcher and monument protector Hartwig Schmidt and the sculptor Fritz Becker, one of the replicas was set up at Charlottenburg Palace in honor of the client .

literature

Martin Sperlich : To attach the left base plate to the monument to Friedrich I. In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins , 79, Heft 3, 1983, S. 88
Heinrich Lange: Friedrich I should go to the Zeughaushof . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 6, 1998, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 4–11 ( luise-berlin.de ).