Monument to the Göttingen Seven (Hanover)

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The monument of the Göttingen Seven in front of the building of the Lower Saxony State Parliament in the state capital Hanover

The monument of the Göttingen Seven in Hanover commemorates an important event in German constitutional history . It honors seven personalities from the history of Lower Saxony : the so-called Göttinger Sieben .

The monument , based on a design by the artist Floriano Bodini , was created in the run-up to Expo 2000 through a joint initiative of the city and the country. The location of the bronze sculptures is the place of the Göttinger Sieben on Karmarschstraße in front of the plenary hall of the Lower Saxony state parliament in the Leineschloss .

purpose

The monument honors the Göttingen Seven: Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann , Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht , Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm , Heinrich Ewald , Georg Gottfried Gervinus and Wilhelm Weber . These seven professors maintained their democratic position during the Hanoverian constitutional conflict at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover .

The state monument is thus at the same time a monument to civil courage and a “commitment to the virtues of the citizen as the foundation of our community ”.

history

One of the seven sculptures
Personality at the exit of the gate

A "Lower Saxony landmark " had been planned for the location in front of the state parliament since around 1961 . However, the building was just the Hanoverian subway are carried out, during which the 1971-1975 temporarily here Ernst-August-Memorial was erected before its current location between the main station and the Niki de Saint-Phalle-Promenade took .

The first ideas competition was held in 1983, but none of the designs supplied were implemented. After all, a memorial plaque for the seven professors was installed in the auditorium of the Georg-August University in Göttingen in 1987 , and in 1988 the Lower Saxony state parliament unveiled a plaque for the "Göttingen Seven" in the foyer of the Leineschloss.

In 1993 an international competition was announced, 30 artists were invited, 26 of whom submitted designs. The jury unanimously decided in favor of Floriano Bodini's work, and in the same year the square was officially named “Platz der Göttinger Sieben” in 1993, but a board of trustees accompanied the further works until the sculpture group was set up in 1998 .

In Göttingen , the central campus of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen also bears the name Platz der Göttinger Sieben . Since 2011 there has been another sculpture donated by Günter Grass and his publisher Gerhard Steidl in memory of the Göttingen Seven .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ This is possibly a " misprint " and the year 1963 was meant: On September 11, 1962, the rebuilt Leineschloss with the plenary hall designed by Dieter Oesterlen was occupied by the Lower Saxony state parliament, and in the following year the river water art at the Karmarschstrasse broken off in 1963, compare Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1962 and 1963. In: Hannover Chronik , pp. 252-255.
    Also in 1963, according to plans by Dieter Oesterlen, "after the 2nd stage of the competition", the "Landtag forecourt" over parts of the river water art was redesigned in terms of     urban development ; compare Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Platz der Göttinger Sieben (see literature)

literature

  • Horst Milde: The Göttingen Seven. The competition for the state monument in Hanover , published by the “Monument to the Göttingen Seven” board of trustees (81 pages), Hanover: self-published (printing: Schäfer, Hanover), 1994
  • Michael Engelhard , Jutta Limbach , Fabrizia Buzzio Negri , Dieter Ronte , Helmut Weidemann : civil courage. The state monument Die Göttinger Sieben by Floriano Bodini, in collaboration with Stefan Helfrich, Ariel Auslender, Piero Marchetti, Ugo Vismara, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia , texts in German and Italian, ed. from the Board of Trustees “Monument for the Göttingen Seven”, Hanover: Hahn-Druckerei, 1998, ISBN 978-3-00-003098-7 and ISBN 3-00-003098-0
  • NN : The state monument "The Göttingen Seven" in front of the state parliament building , ed. by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, Department for Public Relations, Minutes, December 2005, new edition January 20, 2009; downloadable as a PDF document
  • Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Place of the Göttinger Sieben. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 180f.
  • Helmut Knocke: Göttingen Seven. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 224 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke: Göttinger Sieben
  2. ↑ a b c d e Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Platz der Göttinger Sieben
  3. ↑ a b c d N.N .: The state monument "The Göttinger Sieben" in front of the state parliament building
  4. ^ Hugo Thielen: Ernst August Memorial. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 164
  5. ↑ Hilmar Beck (responsible): Brunnen-Denkmale-Kunst in Göttingen: Göttinger Sieben www.denkmale.goettingen.de

Web links

Commons : Monument of the Göttingen Seven  - Collection of Images

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 11.1 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 2.8"  E