Hartwarder friezes

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Hartwarder friezes

The Hartwarder Friese is a bronze monument in Rodenkirchen in the Wesermarsch district , which was inaugurated in 1914 to commemorate the battle of the Hartwarder Landwehr in 1514.

History of origin

The idea of ​​erecting the memorial emerged in 1900 in the Rüstringer Heimatbund, apparently under the influence of Hermann Allmers , and in 1910 a memorial committee was founded in Rodenkirchen. The property on Butjadinger Heerstraße, today's Friesenstraße, was made available by the Rodenkirchen citizen Georg Töllner. A call for donations came from the historian Gustav Rüthning . After that, the monument to the brave but allegedly was treason lost fight the Butjadinger and barn Ander Friesen against the Oldenburg counts and Brunswick princes in the battle of the hard Warder Landwehr remember and serve the heroic death of the ancestors to today's young people as a model.

The tender for the memorial went to the sculptors Professor Paul Peterich in Berlin and Emil Jungblut in Düsseldorf . In 1912, the Monument Committee decided on the Jungbluth design. The costs amounted to around 5,000 marks , mainly through donations and the sale of reproductions of the monument design such as B. Postcards were covered, but also by substantial subsidies from the offices of Butjadingen and Brake .

The monument, cast in bronze, consists of a Frisian warrior with a round shield and morning star . The Oldenburg historian and archivist Georg Sello criticized the design as unhistorical, as the Frisian armament at the time consisted of a long lance , a straight sword and a small round leather shield. The monument bears two inscriptions:

1. In memory of the battle of the Hartwarder Landwehr in 1514. Established by the Rüstringer Heimatbund in 1914

2. Lewer dod as Sklav ( Low German : Dear death as a slave ).

inauguration

Grand Ducal Oldenburg gendarme in official suit (center). On the right Grand Duke Friedrich August. Photo from May 21, 1914 Rodenkirchen, Brake Office, today the Wesermarsch district

The inauguration took place on Thursday, May 21, 1914 in the presence of the sovereign, Grand Duke Friedrich August , and his son, Hereditary Grand Duke Nikolaus . The Oldenburg minister Hermann Scheer belonged to the entourage . In the celebratory speech, the chairman of the Heimatbund, Friedrich Haller, expressly pointed out that the monument was not directed against the Oldenburg dynasty , but it was the duty of the Heimatbund, the brave ancestors who died 400 years ago to erect a worthy monument.

Around 4,000 people attended the inauguration ceremony, including those who had traveled with five special trains operated by the Grand Ducal Oldenburg Railway GOE. The keynote speech was actually supposed to be given by the historian Hermann Oncken , who was born in Oldenburg and now teaches at Heidelberg University , but who had to cancel at short notice and was represented by Pastor Chemnitz from Schweiburg . At the end of the celebration, the memorial was presented to the Rodenkirchen community.

The detailed press coverage of the inauguration was carried out by the editor-in-chief of the news for city and country , Wilhelm von Busch , because he was a native of Butjadinger and identified himself clearly with the idea of ​​the monument.

See also

literature

  • Georg Sello : Östringen and Rüstringen , Oldenburg 1928, p. 18f.
  • Jens Schmeyers: The last free Frisians between the Weser and Ems. The history of Butjadingen and Stadland up to the battle at Hartwarder Schanze , Lemwerder (Stedinger Verlag) 2006.
  • from). B (usch) .: The Frisian monument on the Hartwarder Landwehr , in: News for City and Country (Oldenburg) of May 22, 1914, p. 5f.

Coordinates: 53 ° 24 ′ 35.1 ″  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 40.2 ″  E