King Anton Monument
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The King Anton Monument is a monument to King Anton (1755–1836) of Saxony in the form of a larger-than-life portrait bust on a granite base, which stands on Hohenthalplatz in Dresden's Friedrichstadt .
In 1835 Friedrichstadt was incorporated into Dresden. To commemorate this event, the residents of the district donated a larger than life portrait bust in memory of King Anton, who campaigned for this incorporation. The bust of the king was made in the antique style by the sculptor Ernst Rietschel . The bronze casting took place in the Dölzschener König-Friedrich-August-Hütte in Plauenschen Grund . The inscription on the granite base reads: Anton dem Gutigen from the residents of Friedrichstadt d. XXVII Dec. MDCCCXXXV .
On December 27, 1835, it was erected on the Weißeritz directly opposite the confluence of the Seminarstraße and the Weißeritzstraße in a park that no longer exists today near the present Dresden Mitte train station . After the Weißeritz was relocated and the river bed was backfilled, the monument was moved to its current location on Hohenthalplatz in Friedrichstadt in 1915.
The memorial, which was smeared and partly rusted during GDR times, was restored in early 2000 and re-inaugurated on May 23, 2000. A Braille board provides information about the lettering on the memorial, and you can also feel the shape of the memorial on it.
literature
- Daniel Jacob: Sculpture Guide . Daniel Jacob, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942098-05-2 , p. 102.
Web links
- Information on the “King Anton Monument” on dresdner-stadtteile.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ King Anton I returns to Friedrichstadt - the memorial will be erected again on Hohenthalplatz after restoration , press release of the state capital Dresden of May 18, 2000, accessed on March 28, 2018.
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 31.1 ″ N , 13 ° 42 ′ 52.7 ″ E