Kozlowski monument
The Kozlowski monument is in honor of Theodor Kozlowski built monument in Magdeburg . The monument, designed as an obelisk , is located on the eastern bank of the Stromelbe on Kleiner Werder street in the Werder district of Magdeburg .
It is reminiscent of the civil engineer and Prussian construction officer Theodor Kozlowski, who was active as the Elbe River Construction Director from 1866 to 1880, and who played a key role in regulating the Elbe , which was largely free flowing until then . The Elbe boatmen donated the monument as thanks for Kozlowski's work during his lifetime. From an ecological point of view, the extensive regulatory measures for free-flowing electricity are viewed much more critically today.
The monument was designed in 1900 by the building councils Poetsch (Berlin) and Eggemann (Magdeburg) and unveiled in 1900. On a high plinth made of dark syenite stands a tapering pedestal made of brown-red Miltenberg sandstone , which in turn supports an obelisk made of polished Saxon granite . On the front of the pedestal is a bronze plaque with a relief portrait of Kozlowski, modeled by the sculptor Richard Ohmann and executed by the Lauchhammer foundry .
There is an inscription on the base with the text:
OBER-BAURATH
THEODOR KOZLOWSKI SECRETS THE FIRST ELBSTROM CONSTRUCTION DIRECTOR
THE GRATEFUL ELBESCHIFHRT
Below that are the years 1866 and 1880, the years of the beginning and the end of Kozlowski's term of office.
literature
- Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 20, 1900, No. 58 (from July 25, 1900) ( online ), p. 355 f. (with picture)
- Heinz Gerling : Monuments of the city of Magdeburg . Block, Magdeburg 1991, ISBN 3-910173-04-4 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 43.9 ″ N , 11 ° 38 ′ 45.1 ″ E