Hambacher cloth

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Hambach cloth in the Hambach Castle Museum

The Hambacher cloth is a 64 × 64 centimeter cloth made of linen. It was probably printed in St. Gallen in 1832 and was widely used as a souvenir of the Hambach Festival .

Motifs

Around the pageant on May 27, 1832, shown in the middle, are grouped 16 portraits of then well-known liberals as well as female idols in the corner fields as personifications of justice, wisdom, bravery and prudence.

It was noteworthy that a number of moderate liberals who stayed away from the Hambach Festival are depicted on the Hambach cloth, such as the editors of the Staats-Lexikon Karl von Rotteck and Carl Theodor Welcker , the Marburg constitutional lawyer Sylvester Jordan , the Swabian poet Ludwig Uhland and the Landowner Johann Adam von Itzstein .

Several copies have come down to us, u. a. in the Museum Hambacher Schloss , in the Kurpfälzisches Museum of the City of Heidelberg (currently on loan to the memorial for the freedom movements in German history in Rastatt ), in the Historical Museum in Frankfurt and in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

Pictured are clockwise (from above):

Illustrations

  • Philipp Abresch

  • "Advocat" Friedrich Schüler

  • Karl von Rotteck

  • Carl Theodor Welcker

  • "Dr." Philipp Jakob Siebenpfeiffer

  • Sylvester Jordan "from Marburg"

  • "Court judge" Johann Adam von Itzstein

  • "Dr." Heinrich König

  • Karl Christian Ernst Count von Bentzel-Sternau

  • Georg Fein

  • Ernst Emil Hoffmann

  • Ludwig Uhland

  • Johann Georg August Wirth

  • "Lord Mayor" Wilhelm Joseph Behr

  • Ludwig von Hornthal

  • Johann Jakob Schoppmann

See also

Web links

Commons : Hambacher Tuch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nina Sommer: Files, medals and a lock: traces of Westerwelle and Genscher in Gummersbach . In: Kölnische Rundschau . ( rundschau-online.de [accessed on January 29, 2018]).