Kaiser Friedrich Monument (Wuppertal)
The Kaiser-Friedrich-Monument was a statue in honor of Kaiser Friedrich III. , which was set up on the Elberfelder Neumarkt (today Wuppertal ) from 1893 to 1936 . It stood opposite the Elberfeld town hall and showed, next to the emperor, an allegorical female figure of mourning and a boy who offered the general a branch of laurel.
history
Immediately after the death of Friedrich III. A citizens' meeting in Elberfeld passed the resolution to donate a memorial to the “99-day emperor”. The committee for the donation-financed memorial was headed by Reinhart Schmidt , a member of the Reichstag . After a limited competition, the decision was made on the design by the sculptor Gustav Eberlein . The bronze figure was inaugurated on October 18, 1893, on the same day as the Kaiser Wilhelm monument on Brausenwerther Platz on Döppersberg , which was also made by Eberlein.
In 1901 the Kaiser-Friedrich-Monument received a new enclosure. A quote from the late emperor was mentioned on a bronze plaque:
“ The time in which we live requires light and enlightenment. "
In November 1936, the monument was removed in favor of a parking lot when the traffic flow on Neumarkt was redesigned. In 1939 the memorial was supposed to be re-erected on the Hardt opposite the local nursery, but the Second World War probably prevented the plan from being implemented. In 1951/52 the memorial is said to have been stored in the building yard of the city of Wuppertal on Bayreuther Straße, but then its trace is lost.
Kaiser Friedrich Monument, view from the southwest, in the background the Jubilee Fountain built in 1901
literature
- Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal (main volume) . Born, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-87093-057-8 , p. 81.
- Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg: Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal (biographies of the participating artists) . Born, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-87093-058-6 , p. 41.
Web links
- Jan Niko Kirschbaum: Kaiser-Friedrich-Monument In: denkmal-wuppertal.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 30.2 ″ N , 7 ° 8 ′ 47.1 ″ E