Landgrave Column
The Landgrave Column is a memorial in Friedrichsdorf and commemorates Landgrave Friedrich II of Hessen-Homburg , the founder and namesake of the city. The column on Landgrafenplatz is a listed building .
The landgrave column consists of a column on which a bust of the landgrave is attached. The column itself is originally a border column and stood on the border with the Duchy of Nassau north of the Saalburg . A total of ten such columns were manufactured between 1825 and 1827 after an edict of 1815 imposed import duties on imported goods. The pillars were made from Villmar marble by prisoners in the Diez prison . The design comes from Karl Friedrich Faber , the coat of arms design from Johann Baptist Scholl . After the annexation of Nassau by Prussia In 1866 these border pillars were no longer needed. The column was therefore auctioned in 1872.
The column, now with the bust of the Landgrave, was erected at the Schnepfenburg on Sedan Day 1873 . Before that, it had to be slightly reworked: the inscription "Duchy of Nassau" was replaced by the new inscription, the Nassau lion received a second tail, a shorter head and a crown and thus transformed into a Hessian lion.
In 1937 it was moved to Hugenottenstraße 78 and in 1984 to its current location on Landgrafenplatz.
The bronze bust was made from the landgrave's death mask . In 2012 the bust was restored by the Arnold company .
literature
- Eva Rowedder: Hochtaunuskreis . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2905-9 , pp. 89-90 .
- Christiane Palement-Gensrich: Your Highness are back; in: Taunus-Zeitung of December 22, 2012, p. 14
- Gabriele Calvo Henning: The wandering landgrave; in: Taunuszeitung from January 17, 2014, p. 14
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 21.1 ″ N , 8 ° 38 ′ 23.9 ″ E