Köpfleinsberg war memorial
The Köpfleinsberg war memorial is a memorial in the old town of Nuremberg . It is located on the Köpfleinsberg between Adlerstrasse and Kaiserstrasse and commemorates the Nuremberg people who died in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 . The motif is Victoria cast from bronze .
Emergence
The foundation stone for the memorial was laid on September 2, 1875, and the unveiling took place on September 24, 1876. Originally, the Victory Column was to be erected with a larger and more elaborate equipment on Jakobsplatz, lower financial resources then led to a smaller version and the new location on Köpfleinsberg. The monument was designed by Friedrich Wanderer . The bronze figure Viktoria is based on a design by Johann Rößner , the casting comes from the art foundry Lenz .
The monument in detail
The monument has a square stone substructure that is designed as a dais . There is a high inscription base on the four sides of which there are bronze plaques on which the names of the Nuremberg fallen in the war of 1870/1871 are written. This substructure supports a slender Corinthian column made of reddish marble. The bronze figure of Victoria with laurel and imperial crown floats prancing on this.
The monument through the ages
Since the erection of the war memorial, further memorial plaques have been added to the bronze plaques with the names of those who fell in the war of 1870/71. There is a plaque commemorating the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1901, and another reports on the colonial war between 1904 and 1906 in German South West Africa . In 1998, another plaque was installed, which as a whole boldly questions the meaning of wars and thus gives the monument as a victory column the aspect of a memorial .
Location
Today's Köpfleinsberg is a sloping square in the old town of Nuremberg. It connects Adlerstrasse and Kaiserstrasse, two highly frequented shopping and business streets running next to each other. The Victory Column stands at the top of a staircase that runs from the southern Köpfleinsberg up to Adlerstrasse. At the time the monument was erected, the Köpfleinsberg was still undeveloped. From the monument you have an excellent view of Nuremberg Castle .
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- Entry at Nürnberg-direkt
- Entry in Nuremberg information
- Günther P. Fehring, Anton Ress: The city of Nuremberg. 2nd edition edited by Wilhelm Schwemmer. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00558-7 , p. 264.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Photo of the war memorial as a general view
- Photo of the war memorial - detailed view of the figure of Victoria
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 6.9 ″ N , 11 ° 4 ′ 32.4 ″ E