Peace Monument (Alexisbad)
The Friedensdenkmal is a memorial in the Alexisbad district of the city of Harzgerode in the Harz Mountains in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
It is located on the right, the southeast slope of the Selketal high above Alexisbad on the Habichtstein . A little to the east of the monument, the cliff path leads along the Selketalstieg here .
Architecture and history
At the site of today's monument there was originally a large iron cross erected in 1813 . It stood on a round base made up of four stone steps, was based on a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and was reminiscent of the Napoleonic War . On a plaque was the inscription:
Dedicated to his dear, only son-in-law
Friedrich, Prince of Prussia
by Alexius Duke of Anhalt .
MDCCC IXV III
The memorial was thus dedicated to the husband of Luise von Anhalt-Bernburg , for whom the Luise Temple was built in the vicinity .
During the Second World War , the cross was lost in 1945 or thereafter.
In 1954 the Harzgeroder sculptor Paul Einecke created today's peace monument . As a relief, it shows a dove of peace based on the model of Pablo Picasso above a globe and uses the lower two steps of the old base as a location. Above the relief is the inscription: PEACE OF THE WORLD . There is also an inscription of the same name on the back of the monument.
literature
- Sigrid Elstermann, Thomas Nuremberg: Insights into the history of the health resort Alexisbad . 2008, p. 13 ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The peace monument near Alexisbad on www.harzlife.de
- ↑ Axel and Volker Mothes: Harzer Klippen- & Stiegenwelt, Volume I , Stiegenbuchverlag Halle (Saale) 2011, page 9
- ^ Sigrid Elstermann, Thomas Nürnberg: Insights into the history of the health resort Alexisbad . 2008, p. 13
- ↑ The peace monument near Alexisbad on www.harzlife.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 '4.9 " N , 11 ° 7' 6.2" E