Countess Emma and Duke Benno
Countess Emma and Duke Benno is a sculpture group in Bremen - Schwachhausen , H.-H.-Meier-Allee / Emmastraße, which was set up in 1977/1988. It is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen .
The sculpture group from 1977, initially made of cast stone, was reworked in bronze in 1988 and comes from the sculptor Thomas Recker . From him still come in Bremen u. a. the works group of figures (2001) in Vegesack , the pillow (1993) in Findorff and I would so much like to be your teddy bear (1987) in the Vahr .
The work of art is a reminder of a legend from 1032. Countess Emma von Lesum (975 / 980–1038), last widow of Count von Lesum, bequeathed the citizens of Bremen the Bürgerweide , at that time between Utbremen and Schwachhausen . Her brother-in-law Benno, Duke Bernhard I of Saxony (around 950 / 973-1011) (but possibly his son Bernhard II ), however, decreed that the donation should only include the part of the site that a cripple would crawl around from sunrise to sunset could. The Bürgerweide was a common land , a communal property of the city, confirmed in the pasture letter since 1159 . The cripple's head is said to have been depicted between the feet of the Bremen Roland . A large part of the area was redesigned into today's Bürgerpark in 1865 .
The Countess Emma monument by Christa Baumgärtel in Bremen- Burglesum , Lesumer Markt, has also been a reminder of the Countess since 2009.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 29 " N , 8 ° 50 ′ 46.2" E