Goethe Monument (Vienna)

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The Goethe Monument is a monument in honor of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Vienna and is located on the corner of Opernring and Goethegasse in the 1st district of Innere Stadt . The monument designed by Edmund von Hellmer was unveiled on December 15, 1900. On the opposite side of the ring road is located on the Schillerplatz the 1876 built Schillerdenkmal .

history

A competition was announced in 1889 to design the monument, but the commission did not make a final decision. Viktor Tilgner and Edmund von Hellmer, whose designs met with the greatest approval, were asked to submit new designs. However, after Tilgner's design did not meet the prescribed proportions, it was excluded "for technical reasons", which resulted in the order going to Edmund von Hellmer.

The Goethe Monument was built at the expense of the Vienna Goethe Association, which the Goethe researcher Karl Julius Schröer founded on January 4, 1878. The model was completed in 1895 and the casting was then carried out in the Berndorfer metal goods factory .

description

Pedestal with a poet

The poet is depicted seated in a bronze armchair, which stands on a three-tiered pedestal made of Italian granite that is arched at the front . This pedestal was in turn erected on a wide, flat, three-step pedestal. The monument is a total of 5.55 m high, with the base 2.62 m and the poet figure with chair 2.93 m.

The granite of the base is radioactive due to its high uranium content. The radiation exposure in the immediate vicinity is about four times the background radiation in the area.

On the back of the monument, a semicircular, small green area requested by Karl Julius Schröer was laid out and three trees were planted so that the seated figure would later have a green background.

See also

literature

  • Matthias Settele: Monument. Viennese city stories . Deuticke, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-216-30196-6

Web links

Commons : Goethedenkmal (Vienna)  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Claudia Kuntner: The creation of the Vienna Goethe monument on the Ringstrasse . Diploma thesis, Vienna 2012 ( online )
  2. ↑ Joseph Braunbeck: The radiant double-headed eagle. Nuclear from Austria-Hungary. Leykam, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7011-7333-8 , p. 33

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '12.1 "  N , 16 ° 21' 58.2"  E