Hussar Monument (Wiesental)
The Hussar Monument in Wiesental is a monument erected in 1851 for soldiers of the Royal Prussian Army who died there in the Baden Revolution in 1849 . It is located in Wiesentaler Park, the former cemetery of today's Waghäusel district of Wiesental .
Historical background
On May 12th and 13th, 1849, the rebels formed a third uprising in Offenburg , which marched to Karlsruhe . The Grand Duke Leopold then fled to the fortress of Germersheim and asked the Prussian troops for help. From there, Prussian hussars, led by Friedrich Karl von Prussia , crossed the Rhine to Rheinheim on June 20, 1849. The rebels then withdrew in the direction of Philippsburg. But a squadron of hussars under Prince Friedrich Karl pursued them; and so there was a battle near Wiesental, in which six hussars were killed. It is not known how many insurgents fell. Because of the numerical superiority, the squadron then withdrew to Philippsburg.
description
On the war memorial erected by "the comrades of the Royal Prussian 9th Hussar Regiment " (according to the inscription on the left side of the monument) there is a stone eagle (the heraldic animal of Prussia , see Prussian eagle ) on a wreath. On the front, the monument shows the medal dedicated by Grand Duke Leopold von Baden to “the brave liberation army in 1849”, surrounded by a laurel wreath .
The six fallen hussars - two officers and four soldiers of the crew status - are listed on the face of the monument by name with their military rank and family name, their first names are not mentioned:
- Major Rückert
- Hussar Swiss
- Hussar Barella
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Lieutenant von Muschwitz
- Hussar Burgard
- Hussar Filmann
Since these six fallen soldiers are all listed on the Prussian memorial ( photo ) in Karlsruhe on the old cemetery in Oststadt - which also includes their first names - they are included, as far as the inscriptions there are still legible or copies are correct full name known. It is a matter of:
- Major Friedrich Rückert
- Hussar Jakob Schweizer
- Hussar Franz Barella
- Second Lieutenant Richard v. Muschwitz.
The hussar memorial was inaugurated on June 20, 1851, on the anniversary of the battle; the later Prussian Prime Minister Otto v. Bismarck (1815–1898), who was then a secret legation councilor at the Prussian legation at the Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main .
Web links
- Husarendenkmal (Wiesental) in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe with OSM -Link, geodata as well as references and photos
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. List of names (copy by Ute Greve-Luhmann, 2006) on the Denkmalprojekt.org website , accessed on March 15, 2011
- ↑ www.Waghaeusel.de/st_info_19.php3 ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dorlis Blume: Hussar Monument. Tabular curriculum vitae in the LeMO ( DHM and HdG )
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 34.8 " N , 8 ° 31 ′ 4" E