Guard rider memorial
The guard rider memorial in Dresden was located opposite at today's Stauffenbergallee 12. Towards the city, the Hechtpark borders on the monument ensemble , of which only the base remained.
Location
In Albertstadt in Dresden, the Garde-Reiter monument was located at today's Stauffenbergallee number 12 (previously König-Georg-Allee) opposite the former main entrance of the former Garde-Reiter barracks. Towards the city, the Hechtpark borders the monument ensemble. The memorial commemorated the loyalty to the king , emperor , the fatherland and the fulfillment of duty and in memory of the fallen soldiers of the former Guard Rider Regiment in its 250-year history and mainly of the fallen members in the First World War .
Planning and execution
The Dresden Wilhelm Herbert Lossow, son of the well-known Dresden architect William Lossow , designed the monument on behalf of Saxon military and warrior associations. A high obelisk was to be designed, which presented all the names of the fallen. These names, written in bronze letters, were on the street side and the front of the obelisk. On the street side, there was a relief depicting a historical guard rider in battle. Above the relief, a cantilevered ledge had a tapered cuboid crown. The monument was made of Pirna sandstone and was 7 meters high. The obelisk stood in the middle of a bastion-like structure with sandstone banks in the corners. The Dresden sculptor Arthur Lange carried out the sculptural work based on the template by Wilhelm Lossow.
meaning
The guard rider memorial was inaugurated on Saturday, November 1st, 1919. The ceremony took place at the same time as the traditional and proud Dresden Guard Rider Regiment was dissolved and it was accepted into the Reichswehr . The Reiter Regiment No. 12 now moved into the barracks, and the Wehrmacht took over the property in the 1930s . The inauguration of the first memorial for those who fell in the First World War in Dresden took place with great sympathy from the Dresden population. Among the numerous guests of honor were former members of the regiment, the Saxon officer corps with His Royal Highness Ernst Heinrich von Sachsen , veterans and delegations from the Saxon military associations as well as members of the fallen. After military music and a speech by the court preacher Pastor Keßler, the guard general of the cavalry Krug von Nidda explained the significance and the 250-year history of the guard regiment. Many artists, writers, master craftsmen, engineers and other important personalities, as well as reserve lieutenant Wilhelm Lossow himself, were members of this traditional military unit. A special honor was the reading of the names of the fallen soldiers of the First World War: the 3 civil servants, 17 officers, 15 NCOs and 73 ranks of the Guards Reiter Regiment .
history
Every year honorable commemorative events took place at the Garde-Reiter monument until the outbreak of war in 1939. The memorial survived the bombing of Dresden in 1945 without damage. In the subsequent post-war years, however, on June 5, 1946, the communist rulers classified it as a military fascist monument by the State Administration of Saxony ( State Office for Monument Preservation ). Around 1953 the obelisk was removed. What was left was the bastion-like complex, which was left to decay in the later GDR era. The remains are now to be integrated into a redesign of the Hechtpark. In the meantime, the foundations of the Garde-Reiter monument could be secured and renewed in 2003 through donations from the Arbeitskreis Sächsischer Militärgeschichte eV, the state capital Dresden , the Stadtsparkasse Dresden , the Sächsische Sandsteinwerke GmbH and the St. Heinrichs-Ordens eV Bamberg and numerous other donations . A memorial plaque made of bronze was also attached to the memory.
literature
- Dieter Miedtank, Rolf Rehe, Manfred Beyer: Disappeared monuments - destroyed - forgotten. Military writings of the working group Sächsische Militärgeschichte eV, issue 7, Dresden 2005, ISBN 978-3-9809520-1-9 , pp. 14ff and 33.
- Meinhold travel guide Dresden 1920, issue 2 from 1920.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dresden districts
- ↑ a b c Dieter Miedtank, Rolf Rehe, Manfred Beyer: Disappeared monuments - Destroyed - Forgotten. Military writings of the working group Sächsische Militärgeschichte eV, issue 7, Dresden 2005, ISBN 978-3-9809520-1-9 , pp. 14 and 33.
- ^ SLUB, Dresden Journal 1919 of November 12, 1919, film
- ↑ Working Group of Saxon Military History eV .
- ^ Sächsische Sandsteinwerke GmbH
- ↑ St. Heinrichs-Ordens eV Bamberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 51 ″ N , 13 ° 44 ′ 55.7 ″ E