Lifting Temple (Neustrelitz)

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Restored lifting temple (2015)

The lifting temple is located in the baroque part of the Neustrelitz Castle Park and is a classicist building . It was built in the middle of the 19th century by Mecklenburg-Strelitz state master builder Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel , a student of the architect Carl Friedrich Schinkel and the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow , as a point de vue at the intersection of the baroque line of sight and Tempelallee instead of an earlier building.

The lifting temple was designed by Buttel as a monopteros . A circle of ionic columns frame the standing in the middle of cast zinc - sculpture of the Greek goddess lifting . The original of the sculpture made in 1796 by Antonio Canova from Carrara marble is in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin . The temple is crowned by a zinc cast of a Roman marble copy of a statue of Apollo from the 1st century AD. This sculpture made of Parian marble is called Lycian Apollo or, due to its small size, also known as Apollino (little Apollo). It is located in the Uffizi in Florence and is listed under inventory no. Listed no. 229 in 1914. The larger than life original was most likely made in the 4th century BC. . BC by the Greek sculptor Praxiteles created or in the closer environment. The ceiling painting in the interior of the temple was carried out according to designs by the Berlin decorative painter Bernhard Wilhelm Rosendahl .

The restored lifting temple was damaged by lightning in June 2014 . The column, which was destroyed by lightning, was rebuilt and restored. There was no permanent damage.

Web links

Commons : Lifting Temple  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Juern: Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel. Artist, architect, master builder (1796–1869). Ed. Council of the City of Neustrelitz, 2nd edition of the Karbe-Wagner-Archive Neustrelitz, Neustrelitz 1973, p. 5.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Gerlinde Kienitz: Neustrelitz. The new royal seat. In: Neustrelitz 1733–1983. Ed .: Museum der Stadt Neustrelitz, Neustrelitz 1983, p. 18.
  3. ↑ Illustration and description of the marble sculpture of the Hebe
  4. ↑ Illustration and description of the marble sculpture of Lycian Apollo (Appolino)
  5. ↑ Tatjana Bartsch, Marcus Becker, Horst Bredekamp, ​​Charlotte Schreiter, Walter de Gruyter: Originals of the copy: Copies as products and media of the transformation of antiquity (Transformations of antiquity 17). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-022545-7 , p. 19 (excerpt from Google Books ).
  6. ↑ Charlotte Schreiter: Antiquity at any price: plaster casts and copies of ancient plastic at the end of the 18th century , Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG 2014, p. 522
  7. ↑ Otto Wagner (Ed.): Tourist guide from Neustrelitz and the surrounding area. Neustrelitz 1926, p. 25.
  8. ↑ Little Apollo - The Lingering Youth. Antikensaal Mannheim , accessed on September 16, 2019 .
  9. ↑ After the lightning strike: experts take a close look at Hebe , report from Nordkurier dated June 12, 2014, accessed on June 13, 2014

Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '43.2 "  N , 13 ° 3' 17"  E