Monument of the Republic (Vienna)

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Monument of the Republic with information board (2017)

The Monument of the Republic , also known as the Republic Monument , in Vienna commemorates the proclamation of the Republic of German Austria on November 12, 1918 . It is located on Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring between the Parliament building and Palais Epstein in front of the Grete-Rehor-Park.

description

The monument consists of busts of the three social democrats Jakob Reumann , Victor Adler and Ferdinand Hanusch , each resting on a pedestal. Behind it there are three vertical rectangular granite blocks, on which a fourth block lies horizontally. The inscription “The memory of the establishment of the republic on November 12, 1918” is engraved in it, with the words “Establishment of the republic” written in larger letters than the rest. The monument stands on a slightly raised platform and is accessible via three steps . To the left and right of the steps are two lower cuboids on which flower arrangements are placed on November 12th each year. The busts were created by the sculptors Franz Seifert (Reumann), Anton Hanak (Adler) and Mario Petrucci (Hanusch; based on a design by Carl Wollek ).

  • Laying of the wreath on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the republic

  • Jakob Reumann

  • Victor Adler

  • Ferdinand Hanusch

history

Information board on the left by the monument

It was built under the socialist mayor Karl Seitz and unveiled on November 12, 1928, the tenth anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic of German Austria. Due to its clear reference to social democracy (honoring Victor Adler, founding father of social democracy, Ferdinand Hanusch, founder of the modern welfare state, and Jakob Reumann, Vienna's first “red” mayor), the monument was hostile to conservative and fascist circles. In the course of the elimination of democracy and the establishment of the Austro-Fascist regime , it was first overhanged with cross flags and a portrait of Engelbert Dollfuss and finally removed in 1934, but not destroyed, but stored in the stadium hall. It was rebuilt on the 30th anniversary of the founding of the republic in 1948. In 1961, the back of the memorial and the lighting system were damaged in an explosive attack, the background to the attack has not yet been clarified, but a connection with the attacks by the Liberation Committee of South Tyrol is suspected .

In 2009 the culture commission of Vienna's inner city decided unanimously to put up a text plaque - "also as a sign that today's politics has learned from the divided memory of the founding of the republic and the serious crises of democracy".

Web links

Commons : Republikdenkmal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Standard : When Terror Came to Austria , April 30, 2016
  2. ^ Vienna cultural property: republic monument, work of art in public space ; accessed on May 23, 2017

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 25.2 "  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 33.3"  E