Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Monument Frankfurt am Main

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The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn memorial, erected in 1953 and inaugurated by Walter Kolb , in Lohrpark on the Lohrberg from Frankfurt am Main - Seckbach , renovated in 2002, cleaned for the IDTF in 2009
The Jahn monument on the large playground of the Lohrpark, the competition area of ​​the Lohrbergfest , which has been held annually since 1951
Gymnastics father Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852)

The Friedrich Ludwig Jahn monument in Frankfurt am Main is the only municipal monument to the gymnastics father Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in the city. It is located in Lohrpark on the Lohrberg in the Seckbach district .

history

The memorial was erected in 1953 and inaugurated on May 31 of the same year on the occasion of the 3rd  Lohrberg Festival by the incumbent Mayor of Frankfurt Walter Kolb and the then Lohrberg Festival coordinator of the Seckbach 1875 gymnastics club , Karl Zscherneck. The club has organized the Lohrbergfest every year since 1951 for the Turngau Frankfurt and the Frankfurt am Main sports department. At the time, Kolb was also chairman of the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB).

The immediate reason for the relatively late construction of the monument in Frankfurt am Main, in view of the history of Frankfurt gymnastics documented since 1804, was the Lohrbergfest, which has been taking place since 1951 in the Lohrpark on the 185-meter-high Lohrberg. It is a mountain sports festival with purely athletic competitions for children and young people from Bad Vilbel and Frankfurt sports clubs, which goes back to a suggestion by Kolb. Since its inception, it has attracted up to 750 active people and numerous supervisors, helpers and spectators every year.

The Jahn memorial was therefore positioned in the Lohrpark of the Lohrberg directly on the north-eastern edge of the competition area of ​​the Lohrbergfest between trees and bushes, on a large, two-part, flat lawn, which is the heart of the Lohrpark as a playground.

Another reason for the erection of the monument lies in the fact that Jahn gave a speech to gymnasts in June 1848 near the Berger Warte and the Leopold Column in the Seckbacher district.

In the course of his very eventful life, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn was a politician and folklorist , gymnast and fraternity member . In 1848 he took part in the Frankfurt pre-parliament and in the Frankfurt National Assembly. In his famous swan speech, a kind of political testament that he wrote on September 18, 1848 in his apartment on Frankfurter Allerheiligengasse, he presented his ideals and goals. He traveled to the gymnastics communities in the area from Frankfurt. They became known as his trips to the Rhine .

In 2002 the memorial was renovated at the request of the local advisory council following a resolution by the Frankfurt city ​​council ; Before the start of the International German Gymnastics Festival 2009, the Jahn Monument was cleaned by a specialist company on behalf of the city administration. On May 29, a commemorative event took place at the memorial, attended by the honorary chairman of the Hessian Gymnastics Association (HTV), Werner Mais, the HTV vice-president Rolf Byron and the chairman of the Turngau Frankfurt, Volker Gilbert, who laid a wreath.

characterization

The Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Memorial in Frankfurt was created from shell limestone by the sculptor Johannes Crohn . The cuboid, vertically positioned memorial stone measures 1.80 × 1.0 × 0.70 meters and is inscribed on both sides. The gymnast's cross is carved on the front , made up of four horizontally and vertically mirrored letters F in capital letters.

It takes up the motto of the gymnastics father Jahn:

" Fresh to work,
pious in the belief in the charitable status and lasting value of creation,
happy with one another,
free and open in all actions."

In short: fresh, pious, happy, free . The full name of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn is carved on the side of the monument.

German gymnastics festivals in Frankfurt am Main

The German Gymnastics Festival was held several times in Frankfurt am Main :

  • July 24-28, 1880
  • July 18-23, 1908
  • June 26th to July 3rd 1983
  • May 30th to June 5th, 2009.

In addition, the Frankfurt Gymnastics Festival took place from August 19 to 23, 1948 .

literature

  • Rochelmeyer, Folker: Seckbach und seine Umgebung, Frankfurter Sparkasse von 1822 - Polytechnische Gesellschaft (Hrsg.), 1972, 84 p., Illustrated
  • Rochelmeyer, Folker (Chronicle): Festschrift 1100 Years Seckbach, 880–1980, Festschrift 1100 Years Seckbach e. V. (Ed.), 1980, 151 pp., Illustrated
  • Masala, Lino / Rödel, Volker / Risse, Heike / Schomann, Heinz: Monument topography City of Frankfurt am Main, Magistrat der Stadt Frankfurt, Untere Monument Authority (ed.), 1986, 798 pages, illustrated, ISBN 3-528-06238-X

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Memorial event at the Jahn monument in Lohrpark on the Lohrberg in the Seckbach district  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.turngau-frankfurt.de
  2. ↑ http://www.kunst-im-oefflichen-raum-frankfurt.de/de/page87.html?id=295 Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn monument, Frankfurt am Main-Seckbach, art in public space

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Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 7.3 "  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 47.4"  E