Joseph Herrmann Monument
The Joseph-Herrmann monument is located on Friedrich-Wieck-Straße near Körnerplatz in the Loschwitz district of Dresden . It was built in 1869 by the Dresden sculptor Joseph Herrmann in memory of his father Joseph Dominik Herrmann and has been a listed building since 1974.
history
Joseph Dominik Herrmann worked as an artist in Loschwitz. On February 24, 1799, he observed two boatmen on the Elbe , whose lives were endangered by a heavy ice drift on the river. The boatmen came from Prossen near Bad Schandau and got caught in the ice with their boat. Herrmann recognized the situation and followed them with a horse to a suitable place, where he could reach them with the help of ropes and thus rescue them from the river.
monument
To commemorate his father's deed in 1868/69, Joseph Herrmann designed a relief depicting the scene of the rescue of the two shipwrecked people on the icy Elbe. He made the factory in Rome , using Carrara marble as the building material . The round relief was then brought to Loschwitz and installed in a stone pavilion built for this purpose. The Joseph Herrmann Foundation , established for this purpose, took over the financing of the pavilion . The monument was restored from 1984 on the outside and from 1991 on the inside.
The inscription under the relief reads:
Joseph Herrmann, the philanthropist,
which with its own mortal danger
with the huge flood of ice on the Elbe
on February 24, 1799
saved the lives of two shipmen from Prossen,
dedicates his son Joseph Herrmann
this executed according to our own draft
and erected monument
in 1869.
The Joseph Herrmann monument is popularly known as a mustard can because of its shape .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Lars Herrmann: Friedrich-Wieck-Strasse. In: www.dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved February 13, 2015 .
- ^ Eckhard Bahr: Dresden. With Meissen, Radebeul and Saxon Switzerland. 2nd updated edition. Trescher, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89794-214-1 , Google Books .
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 12.9 ″ N , 13 ° 48 ′ 50 ″ E