Göttingen memorial plaques

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Goetheallee 12)
Eduard Albrecht (Weender Landstrasse 8)
Johann Andreas Eisenbarth (Short Street 12)
Jeremias Gotthelf (Papendiek 10)
Franciscus Lubecus (Paulinerstraße 10/12)

The Göttingen memorial plaques are memorial plaques in the city of Göttingen , which commemorate outstanding personalities of the Lower Saxony university town.

description

The Göttingen memorial plaques are rectangular and made of white marble. They are attached to the houses (or subsequent buildings built later on the same place) in which the honorable people lived. The years mentioned on the memorial plaques indicate the period of time during which the person concerned stayed in Göttingen. In this way, important former students and professors of the Georg-August-Universität , but also well-known citizens of the city and internationally known personalities who have lived here for other reasons and possibly only briefly, are honored.

The culture committee decides on new memorial plaques at the suggestion of the local city archive after hearing the monument commissioner of the Georg-August-Universität.

In addition to the plaques installed on behalf of the city, there are now also privately initiated plaques, which in terms of material and design often correspond to the city's commemorative plaques.

history

The Göttingen plaques were in 1874 on the model of the university town of Jena , at the initiative of the Göttingen mayor Georg Merkel in Göttingen introduced to honor outstanding personalities Goettingen city's history. Since the year 1874 there have been 320 (as of 2002) such memorial plaques, some of which, however, have not been preserved and are not intended to be renewed.

Anyone who is classified as an "outstanding personality" in connection with the Göttingen memorial plaques is subject to change over time. The City Archives of Göttingen commented: “The convinced Prussian and avowed anti-Semite Heinrich von Treitschke [received] a plaque in the year of his death in 1896 ... while Dorothea Schlözer was the first woman in Germany to receive a doctorate in philosophy and had to wait 150 years until it finally happened in 1976. "

Some of the most recently installed memorial plaques recall the resistance fighter Adam von Trott zu Solz , the Hungarian-American physicist Eugene Paul Wigner , the enlightener Adolph Knigge , the mathematician Paul Bernays , the composer Franz Herzog and the art historian Johann Dominicus Fiorillo , as well as the youngest of the Physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer , natural scientist Johann Andreas Segner and mathematician Hugo Steinhaus (as of May 2018).

People with several memorial plaques

Otto von Bismarck (Rote Strasse 27)
  • Carl Friedrich Gauß received most of the memorial plaques: at times there were four, today there are still three.
  • Otto von Bismarck , the most famous Göttingen student of the 19th century and later Chancellor of the Reich, is honored with two memorial plaques: One is at the first student apartment at Rote Straße 27 and the second, donated by the Hanoverian iron foundry , at the other student apartment of Bismarck, the Bismarck house in the ramparts on the southern edge of the city center. It is made of cast iron and not marble like the others.
  • Robert Koch received two memorial plaques, namely on the houses at Goetheallee 4 and Burgstrasse 22/23. Another, differently designed board for him is attached to the building at Zindelstrasse 1.
  • Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein received two memorial plaques, namely at Weender Strasse 23/25 and at Paulinerstrasse 5.

literature

  • Walter Nissen, Christina Prauss, Siegfried Schütz: Göttingen memorial plaques. A biographical guide. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002, ISBN 3-525-39161-7

Web links

Commons : Göttingen memorial plaques  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. As of 2002 according to Nissen u. a.
  2. Göttingen City Archives: memorial plaques
  3. http://www.stadtarchiv.goettingen.de/

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 2 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 8 ″  E