Friedrich Wilhelm Monument (Bad Liebenwerda)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Monument (2008)

The Friedrich Wilhelm monument is located in the so-called wood , in the center of the spa park in the spa town of Bad Liebenwerda in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . The monument, inaugurated in 1882, commemorates the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. (1770-1840). Today it is on the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg and is therefore under protection.

description

The monument was created in 1880 by Christian Daniel Rauch (1777–1857), who was one of the most important and successful sculptors of German classicism . It was cast in the Lauchhammer art foundry . The monument was inaugurated in 1882.

The bronze bust on a stone plinth represents the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. (1770-1840).

history

Bronze bust
The Friedrich Wilhelm Monument (2016)

Friedrich Wilhelm III. is considered to be the founder of the so-called wood , the centerpiece of today's spa park in Bad Liebenwerda. The piece of forest known as the Schlossellern is located directly northeast of the former Liebenwerda Castle . These were in fiscal possession until the beginning of the 19th century and should be sold. The site, however, was already at that time the local population a popular recreation destination and the city council asked in a direct petition to the Prussian King on February 22, 1830 to the free transfer of land for the purpose of beautification of the city and the urban recreation.

The request was granted and on March 31, 1830, the city was given full inalienable ownership on condition that it be used to beautify the city and its culture. From then evolved from Schlos sellers of wood called City Park Liebenwerda who had the system of trails and putting up bridges and benches result.

In the heart of the park, the Friedrich-Wilhem monument was finally erected in 1882 out of gratitude in honor of the founder and inaugurated with great participation by the local population. A zinc plaque with documents and other documents was built into the foundation stone of the monument.

Truth or fiction?

The Friedrich Wilhelm Monument around 1908.
The grove on a postcard from the Meißner Verlag Brück & Sohn around 1913
The grove on a postcard from the Meißner Verlag Brück & Sohn around 1914

According to a traditional anecdote, the acceptance is said to have been made with the help of Count Ferdinand Joseph von Harrach zu Rohrau (1763–1841). Von Harrach was the father of Princess Liegnitz (1800–1873), the second wife of the Prussian king, and occasionally stayed in Liebenwerda for hunting and recreation, where he probably liked staying at the Zum Weißen Roß inn . The count is said to have broken his leg during one of these stays. Out of gratitude for the care that the local population then showed him during his involuntarily extended stay in the city, he used his influence on the queen, who in turn persuaded the Prussian king to give this gift during a short stopover during a transit.

This anecdote had already been published in a similar form in 1908 in an essay published in the local history series Die Schwarze Elster . Even if it is known that the Prussian king knew and drove the postal route Berlin – Dresden personally, the author of the article at the time did not know at the time whether the anecdote was a poem or actually the truth.

A few years later, the neighboring city of Wahrenbrück also tried to obtain a so-called gift of grace from the Prussian king in order to erect a memorial for the musician Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759), who was born in Wahrenbrück . It then took 23 years until the Graun monument became a reality in 1869.

  • Auguste Princess Liegnitz

  • View from the Lubwart Tower in Bad Liebenwerda to the forest

  • Friedrich Wilhelm III.

literature

  • Wolfgang Eckelmann, Michael Ziehlke: The inauguration of the Friedrich Wilhelm monument in 1882 . In: Association for city marketing and economy Bad Liebenwerda eV (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the city of Liebenwerda . Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 108 to 109 .
  • The grove in Liebenwerda . In: The Black Magpie . No. 67 , 1908 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).

Web links

Commons : Friedrich-Wilhelm-Denkmal (Bad Liebenwerda)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b Database of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 14, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang Eckelmann, Michael Ziehlke: The inauguration of the Friedrich Wilhelm Monument in 1882 . In: Association for city marketing and economy Bad Liebenwerda eV (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the city of Liebenwerda . Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 108 to 109 .
  3. ^ A b c Wolfgang Eckelmann, Michael Ziehlke: A romance around the "grove" . In: Association for city marketing and economy Bad Liebenwerda eV (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the city of Liebenwerda . Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 86 to 87 .
  4. ↑ a b c City of Bad Liebenwerda (Ed.): Kurparkführer . S. 9 (tourist information sheet).
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Eckelmann, Michael Ziehlke: A romance around the "grove" . In: Association for city marketing and economy Bad Liebenwerda eV (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the city of Liebenwerda . Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 96 .
  6. ↑ a b The grove in Liebenwerda . In: The Black Magpie . No. 67 , 1908 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  7. ^ Gerold Glatte: Wainsdorf 1839 +++ . In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde e. V. Bad Liebenwerda (Hrsg.): Home calendar for the old district of Bad Liebenwerda, the Mückenberger Ländchen, outskirts on Schraden and Uebigau-Falkenberg . No. 53 . Gräser Verlag Großenhain, 2000, ISBN 3-932913-16-7 , p. 64-67 .
  8. ^ R: The Graun monument in Wahrenbrück . In: The Black Magpie . No. 116 , 1909 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  9. ↑ Internet presence of the Graun-Gesellschaft Wahrenbrück , accessed on November 5, 2017

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '58.8 "  N , 13 ° 24' 5.7"  E