Jahndenkmal (Cologne)

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Jahndenkmal in Cologne-Müngersdorf

The Jahndenkmal in Cologne-Müngersdorf was unveiled on July 21, 1928 on the occasion of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn's 150th birthday at the start of the German Gymnastics Festival . A great-grandson of Jahn, who had traveled from Chicago , and the chairman of the German Gymnastics Association , Oskar Berger , were present at the ceremony . It is one of around 330 memorials for gymnastics father Jahn in Germany.

Plaque in memory of the gymnastics festival and the gymnastics championships in 1949

Description and location

The Cologne Jahndenkmal consists of a 15 meter high reinforced concrete pillar . This is crowned by four cross-shaped "F" in a stylized form, the gymnast's cross . The four "F" from which the cross is formed stand for the motto of the German gymnastics association "Fresh, Fromm, Fröhlich, Frei". The monument was designed by the architect and Cologne city planning director at the time, Adolf Abel . Abel recorded among other things for the eponymous Abelbauten of brick in front of the RheinEnergie stadium , the Rhein halls and Messeturm the Cologne trade fair and the main building of the University of Cologne responsible.

The monument is located on a hill on the south side of the Jahnwiese, which, like the Adenauerhügel to the southeast, was created from the excavation for the Adenauerweiher in between . The hill was originally an earth wall intended as a spectator stand, to which a wide staircase leads up and from which the Jahnwiesen could be well overlooked. At first the monument was visible from afar, which is now preventing tall trees.

Later, a plaque was attached to the pillar commemorating the 1928 Gymnastics Festival and the 1949 German Gymnastics Championships in Cologne. In 2011, this plaque was on display as part of the exhibition In Motion - 200 Years of Gymnastics in the German Sports & Olympics Museum in Cologne. Then a member of the German Gymnastics Federation restored the memorial plaque, which was re-attached to the column in March 2012 in a “solemn ceremony”.

Web links

Commons : Jahndenkmal (Cologne)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Gabi Langen / Thomas Deres: Müngersdorfer Stadium Cologne . Emons, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-89705-126-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It could have been the great-grandson Ernest Georg Rohr . See: Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Family tree of Ernest John Rohr, South Holland / Chicago, Illinois (USA). In: gymmedia.com. Retrieved March 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Langen / Deres, Müngersdorfer Stadion Cologne , p. 119
  3. ^ Dieter Langewiesche: Empire, Nation, Federation. CHBeck, 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57376-7 , p. 295 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ a b Entry on the Jahndenkmal at the Müngersdorf sports park in the “ KuLaDig ” database of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on August 8, 2017.
  5. ^ Rally in the Müngersdorfer Sportpark. (No longer available online.) Virtual Sports Museum, archived from the original on February 26, 2014 ; accessed on March 9, 2017 . 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. (pdf) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / virtuelles-sportmuseum.de
  6. ↑ Harald Rösch: memorial plaque for the gymnastics festival at the old place. (No longer available online.) Rheinische Turnzeitung, September 2012, p. 27 , archived from the original on March 12, 2017 ; accessed on March 9, 2017 . 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. (pdf) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rtb.de

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 45.9 ″  N , 6 ° 52 ′ 22.3 ″  E