Goethe Monument (Karlsbad)
The Goethe Monument is a state monument in honor of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on the back promenade of the city of Karlsbad in the Czech Republic .
Goethe stayed in the Bohemian Karlsbad numerous times during his time in Weimar to take a cure and looked around very intensively in the area (for example in Neudek and Engelhaus ) and visited mines in the Ore Mountains .
In the 1880s the idea of erecting a Goethe memorial was born, which the German sculptor Adolf Donndorf from Stuttgart created. The memorial comprised a bust that stood on a high pedestal decorated with antique reliefs and bearing the name “Goethe” in a park in front of the Parkhotel Pupp. The city of Karlovy Vary paid for the monument. In 1883 the inauguration took place. However, the sculptor Adolf Donndorf later noted on a picture of the bust that he thought it had failed.
After the Second World War in 1946, the memorial was then removed as part of the so-called "national cleansing". While the bust was in the museum, the one and a half meter marble pedestal was apparently simply thrown into a pit and could no longer be found. In 1952 the bust was brought back from the museum and placed on a new base, which, however, was simpler and significantly lower. The monument was then rebuilt with the new plinth out of town on the “Pushkin Promenade”, which is now called “Goethe Way” and is hardly frequented by day visitors. In 2014, during excavation work, the old plinth was accidentally found again, which was then placed in the unrestored condition near the Goethe monument on the promenade.
Since May 3, 1958 the bust has been entered in the state register of cultural monuments.
See also
literature
- Edvard Hlaváček: Goethe in Karlsbad , Karlsbad 1877
- Franz Puchtinge: Goethe in Karlsbad , 1922
- Paul Schöttner: The "eternally feminine" around Goethe in Karlsbad , 1930
- Miloslav Wajs: West Bohemia in Goethe's life, work and activity , Karlsbad 1992
- Anton Gnirs : Topography of the historical and art-historical monuments in the districts of Karlsbad , Oldenburg 1996, p. 66
- Information center of the city of Karlovy Vary: http://www.karlovyvary.cz/de/bueste-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe
- Annette Kraus: http://www.radio.cz/de/rubrik/tagesecho/es-waere-schade-ihn-wegzuwerfen-sockel-von-goethe-bueste-in-karlsbad-aufgetaucht , 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ As of April 2019
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 4 ″ N , 12 ° 53 ′ 3 ″ E