Peace protected by arms

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Preserved base with memorial plaque in 2013
Figure group

Peace protected by weapons , also peace protected by weapons , was a monument in the city of Quedlinburg in what is now Saxony-Anhalt . The base of the monument, which is now used as a memorial, was preserved.

location

It was located in the area of ​​what is now Friedrich-Ebert-Platz, southwest of Bahnhofsstrasse, opposite the Quedlinburg victory monument .

History and design

The model for the group “Peace protected by arms” was created in 1889 by Ludwig Manzel . For this he received the Grand State Prize of the Academy of Arts. On the initiative of the Prussian Minister of Culture Robert Bosse , who came from Quedlinburg, the group of figures, cast in bronze, came to Quedlinburg, where it was erected in 1898. The memorial showed a warrior with a spear, who protected a partly undressed young woman who looked up to him with his shield. The figures stood on a high pedestal. In 1899, Manzel showed a partial marble copy of the group (the female head) at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. This partial copy or an identical version in marble was installed in 1936 on Manzel's tomb in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Potsdam.

After the end of the Second World War , the Quedlinburg monument is said to have been removed on August 16, 1945 at the instigation of the Soviet occupation authorities, whereby the base was retained. Today (as of 2013) there is a plaque in front of the base with the inscription: In memory of the victims of oppression and war . The base and panel are not entered in the Quedlinburg monument register.

literature

  • Guide through Quedlinburg , Quedlinburg 1920, published on behalf of the municipal transport office by Dr. Selmar Kleemann, p. 25 f.
  • Peter Bloch , Sibylle Einholz , Jutta von Simson : Ethos and Pathos. The Berlin Sculpture School 1786–1914, exhibition catalog of the Sculpture Collection of the State Museums of Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin 1990, vol. 1
  • Wolfgang Gottschalk : Südwestfriedhof Stahnsdorf, Berlin Nishen Verlag 1991, p. 58 ( ISBN 3-88940-058-2 )

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Coordinates: 51 ° 47'9 "  N , 11 ° 9'0.2"  E