Kepler Monument (Regensburg)
Kepler Monument | |
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The Kepler Monument in its current location |
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place | Fürst-Anselm-Allee, Regensburg |
architect | Emanuel Herigoyen |
Architectural style | Doric |
Construction year | 1808 |
Coordinates | 49 ° 0 '50.3 " N , 12 ° 5' 57.7" E |
The Kepler Monument is a memorial to Johannes Kepler , which was erected in Regensburg in 1808 and is now located in the green belt of Fürst-Anselm-Allee .
History of origin
plans
156 years after the death of the famous physicist Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) in Regensburg and his burial in the Petersfriedhof in front of the city wall, the plan was for the first time to erect a monument in his honor. Professor Philipp Ostertag, rector of the Regensburg grammar school in 1785, gave the first impetus for the construction of the Kepler monument with his work To the enlightened German public . However, this appeal proved unsuccessful. In 1806 Karl Theodor von Dalberg took up the plan to erect a memorial for Kepler again. On February 1, 1806, an appeal for donations was drafted for the construction of the Kepler monument. At that time, the authors of the appeal for donations already had two preliminary drafts of the monument by Emanuel Herigoyen . The monument was supposed to stand near the place where Kepler was buried in 1630 and where the epitaph erected for him had stood until 1633. Back in the Thirty Years' War, the commander of the city of Regensburg, which was occupied by Bavarian troops, had the Petersfriedhof with all its grave monuments destroyed and leveled in anticipation of the attack by Swedish troops in order to create a clear field of fire.
Establishment
The monument was completed in 1808 and inaugurated on December 27, 1808. On the occasion of the consecration, Father Placidus Heinrich wrote the commemorative publication Monumentum Keplero dedicatum Ratisbonae .
In 1809 the south-east of Regensburg and with it the area around the Kepler monument was badly affected by escaping Austrian troops and an attack by French troops . However, the Kepler monument was spared the fighting and formed the southern end of this street after the reconstruction of the southeastern urban area and the new construction of the straight Maximilianstrasse .
Transfer
When the main train station was built in Regensburg in 1859 , the monument had to be moved to the west because it stood in the way of the straight extension of Maximilianstrasse to the train station. This is how the memorial came to its present location, in the Fürst-Anselm-Allee created by Karl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis .
architecture
The two above-mentioned designs by Herigoyen were on the one hand a monopteros and on the other a cenotaph . The decision was made for the Monopteros. The temple is supported by eight Doric columns . A domed roof rests on the pillars, on which a gold-plated armillary sphere was attached. The architrave with planets and zodiac signs from bronze decorated.
In the middle of the round temple there is a pedestal made of red marble , which bears the bust of Kepler. The front of the base is decorated with a relief by Heinrich von Dannecker , which depicts Kepler as the genius who lifts the veil of Urania .
The life-size bust made of Carrara marble was made by the sculptor Friedrich Döll after the original bust by Philipp Jakob Scheffauer , which is set up in the vestibule of the Kepler Memorial House in Regensburg. It was made from historical copperplate engravings and was originally intended for the Walhalla .
literature
- Karl Bauer : Regensburg. Art, culture and everyday history. 6th edition. MZ Buchverlag, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 .
- Doris Becher-Hedenus: “We all travel an eccentric path” - The German Kepler reception in the 18th century and the Regensburg monument from 1808. Univ.-Verl. Regensburg, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86845-061-3 .
- Helmut Eberhard Paulus: A Monopterus for Johannes Kepler. In: Regensburger Almanach 2008, Regensburg the memory of Europe. MZ Buchverlag GmbH Regensburg, ISBN 978-3-934863-44-6 , ISSN 1863-8589 , p. 105.
- Johann Philipp Ostertag: Kepler's Monument in Regensburg. Zeitler, Regensburg 1786.
- Heinrich Placidus: Monumentum Keplero Dedicatum Ratisbonae. Ratisbonae 1808.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 241 f .