Deer monument

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Deer monument in Briesen (Mark)

The deer memorial (also called memorial of the sixty-sixth ) is a memorial to the shooting of a capital red deer with a 66- ender by Friedrich I. It is located in a wooded area south of the municipality of Briesen (Mark) in the Oder-Spree district in the state of Brandenburg and is a registered monument. The official name is: Deer Monument, in the forest on the paved road to Kersdorf . It is part of the coat of arms of the municipality of Briesen.

location

The federal motorway 12 leads in a west-east direction through the district of Briesen. At the junction of the same name , a forest path leads south to the Kersdorf lock . About halfway the monument stands east of the forest path on a flat surface that is enclosed by surrounding hedges . West of the forest path is a refuge with an information board about the monument.

history

66-Ender in Moritzburg Castle , 1924

According to tradition, Elector Friedrich III, after 1701 King Friedrich I in Prussia, was on the hunt on September 18, 1696 . He is said to have killed a red deer that had antlers with 66 ends. At his behest, craftsmen erected a memorial for the red deer in the hunting area in a period that has not been passed down precisely. The Odervorland office suspects that immediately after the shooting down a plaque was erected and around ten years later the memorial based on a design by the builder Andreas Schlueter . September 16, 1707 is given as the day of inauguration. The first reliable tradition appeared in a report by the Prussian chief forester Hartig in 1817 .

1727 was August the Strong versus Friedrich Wilhelm I. interested in the extraordinary antlers. There was a barter in which the soldier king received a company of Lange Kerls . The antlers have been in Moritzburg Castle since then and can be viewed in the Monstrous Hall alongside 38 other, partly pathologically altered antlers. The memorial was largely destroyed in World War II and rebuilt based on templates in the 1970s. A renovation took place in 1996 to mark the 300th anniversary of the graduation. In 2009 experts cleaned the monument and gave it a new coat of paint.

Building description

Inscription on the reverse

The monument was built from bricks that were then plastered . It has a rectangular floor plan and is based on a broad base. The lower part is designed as a cartridge on the front and back , above is a surrounding, multi-profiled cornice . In the upper part there is a plastic representation of the hunted antlers. It is kept in brownish tones; behind it a pastel colored background. The following inscription is placed on the back. "This stag shot this stag with his own hand during the rutting season. The most noble / most powerful prince and lord / mister Friedrich the third / margrave and elector of Brandenburg / in the office of Biegen on the Jacobsdorfschen Heide / on September 18, 1696 / weighed five hundredweight 35 Pound / after screaming for 3 weeks ".

literature

  • Office Odervorland: Monument of the sixty-sixth , information board on the monument, September 2017.
  • The Briesener Deer Monument , by R. Kramarczyk on the website of the Vorderland Office, accessed on October 17, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Deer Monument  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Landkreis Oder-Spree (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  2. ↑ Cornelia Link: Briesener Hirsch monument renovated . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , June 24, 2009, accessed on October 17, 2017.
  3. ^ Baroque exhibition , Moritzburg Castle website, accessed on October 17, 2017.

Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 49.7 "  N , 14 ° 16 ′ 8.9"  E