King Albert Monument (Freital)

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King Albert Monument on the Windberg (2011)

The Royal Albert Memorial (also Windberg monument ) is a monument protected seventeen meter high obelisk made of sandstone on the Windberg in Freital and is considered a landmark of the city.

mountain side view (2011)

Location and appearance

The monument is located on a plateau at about 351  m above sea level. NN and faces the Döhlen basin , in which the city of Freital is located. There is a viewing platform and a small park around the monument. On the side facing the valley there is an equestrian statue of King Albert of Saxony, to whom the obelisk is dedicated. On the side facing away from the valley there is a bronze plaque with inscriptions. At night the King Albert monument is illuminated.

history

King Albert Monument - renewed memorial plaque

After Albert von Sachsen's death in 1902, the Conservative Association of Plauenschen Grund formed a committee under the leadership of Ferdinand Max Georgi , director of the Zauckerode Royal Coal Works , who used donations to organize the financing and erection of a memorial to the popular king. The memorial was intended to honor the Saxon monarch and to express the gratitude of the residents of the Plauen reason for the military assistance provided during the floods in 1897 . In April 1903 the first drafts for the obelisk were completed. The one by the Dresden architect Max Hans Kühne was selected from several designs .

In November 1903, construction of the Bannewitz sandstone monument began . The equestrian statue was created by the Dresden sculptor Heinrich Wedemeyer (1867–1941). On August 18, 1904, the King Albert Memorial was unveiled after three quarters of construction. Ferdinand Max Georgi gave the inauguration speech. He ended his speech with the words “... But as this column rises high above the fog and smoke of the ground below, it calls out the warning to us: tear yourself away from disaffection and nagging, free from party and church tower politics ! ”Since then it has developed into a landmark of the communities in Plauenschen Grund and later the city of Freital. By 1951 the equestrian statue was badly weathered, so that it had to be built over. In 2007 and 2008, the heavily damaged monument was largely renovated and a new bronze plate was installed.

Web links

Commons : König-Albert-Denkmal  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtverwaltung Freital (Hrsg.): Monuments in Freital - workshop report 3 of a municipal working group against forgetting . Freital 2013.
  2. ↑ Walther Fischer: Grimmaic ECCE . tape 61 . Dresden 1940.
  3. ^ Siegfried Huth: Freital in old views . tape 1 . Freital, ISBN 978-90-288-5521-2 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 52 "  N , 13 ° 39 ′ 35"  E