Hesser monument

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The Hesser monument commemorates a battle of the Imperial and Royal Lower Austrian infantry regiment " Freiherr von Hess " No. 49 near Schwarzen Lacken Au (today Schwarzlackenau, 21st district of Vienna) on May 13, 1809. It is located on the new building belt in Vienna near the Westbahnhof on a green area between the two directional lanes of the belt, which was named Emil-Maurer -Park in 2013 .

Before 1989, this memorial was located in the middle between the Vienna Westbahnhof and the Lazarist church "To the Immaculate Conception". This memorial was then moved for the new Westbahnhof underground station. The front plaque of this monument pointed to the Westbahnhof at that time.

The monument is a listed building and is also listed as a work of art in public spaces .

Historical background

The memorial commemorates a battle near the Schwarzlackenau in the course of the Battle of Aspern on May 13, 1809, in which Napoleon Bonaparte's troops were denied access to the left bank of the Danube. It is dedicated to the then Imperial and Royal Lower Austrian Infantry Regiment "Freiherr von Hess" No. 49. The memorial was inaugurated on the 100th anniversary of the battle on May 13, 1909 in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph .

description

At the foot of a 16-meter-high obelisk with a bronze copy of the Austrian imperial crown at the top stand two groups of sculptures. On the face side direction Europe space (West Station) two soldiers of the regiment are shown during the battle in the Schwarzlackenau. One standing infantryman holds up the regimental flag, the other was wounded and kneels next to it. On the back there is a roaring lion on a captured flag and military trophies. The lion was designed by the sculptor based on a model living in Schönbrunn Zoo . The sculptures were created by the sculptor Josef Tuch , the base and obelisk by the architect Karl Badstieber . The figure of the infantryman with the regimental flag quotes both the Archduke Karl's equestrian monument on Heldenplatz and the Vienna German Master Monument , on which Tuch had worked.

See also

Johann von O'Brien

Web links

Commons : Hesser Monument  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
  2. ^ New Vienna Journal of May 12, 1909
  3. ↑ Description of the draft monument in the Wiener Bilder newspaper of March 18, 1908
  4. ^ Wiener Zeitung of July 15, 1907
  5. ↑ http://www.architektenlexikon.at/de/15.htm
  6. ↑ The occupation of public space: political squares, monuments and street names in European comparison, Frank and Timme Verlag 2007

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 54.8 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 18.8 ″  E