King Friedrich I Monument (Königsberg)
The King Friedrich I monument in Königsberg stood on the palace square at the south-western corner of the palace . Today there is a replica in front of the Knobelsdorff wing of Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin.
history
The statue was created by Andreas Schlueter in 1697. It shows the Elector Friedrich III. in Roman garb and was originally created for the courtyard of the Zeughaus in Berlin. In 1801, at the instigation of Friedrich Leopold von Schrötter , King Friedrich Wilhelm III. the city of Königsberg on the occasion of the centenary of Frederick I's coronation, the monument came to Königsberg in 1802 and was erected in a semicircle, the whisper niche, a wall in front of the former stables opposite the castle guard; Gottfried Schadow created the base . When the Reichsbank moved into the stables in 1928 , after much back and forth it stayed in its place in the niche. The monument was lost in the post-war chaos in 1945.
Description of the monument
The monument consisted of a base and the statue of Frederick on it.
base
The 4-sided base was kept simple and did not have any sculptures or the like, but showed either an inscription panel or a simple relief on each side.
On the front there was a plaque with the following inscription:
"FRIEDRICH
FIRST KINGDOM
OF PRUSSIA
TO KOENIGSBERG
crowned
THE XVIII January
MDCCI"
The relief on the east side showed a crowned Prussian eagle with the signature "SUUM CUIQUE" (each his own). In his claws he held the scepter and the imperial orb, the west side the Prussian royal crown and the royal Prussian scepter.
freeze frame
The sculpture, which is only slightly larger than life, shows the bareheaded Frederick walking forward in the robe of a Roman general with the royal Prussian scepter in his right hand.
Today's monument to Frederick I in Berlin
When a complete plaster copy from the 19th century was found in an East Berlin plaster molding shop in 1972 , Gerhard Marcks and Waldemar Grzimek were able to make two replicas in 1972. One of them stands today as a monument to King Friedrich I in front of Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin on a reconstruction of the original plinth. Another replenishment is owned by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin .
literature
- Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
- Richard Armstedt: history of the royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia . Reprint of the original edition, Stuttgart 1899.
- Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia . 3 volumes, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .
- Jürgen Manthey: Königsberg - history of a world citizenship republic . Hanser 2005, ISBN 3-446-20619-1 .
- Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg , Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-071-X .
- Baldur Köster: Königsberg: Architecture from German times. Husum Druck, 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 .