Langensalza monument (Bad Langensalza)

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The 12 m high war memorial between cannon barrels
The monument in the 19th century, shortly after a memorial service;
Photo in cabinet format by Christian Bregazzi

The Langensalza memorial in Bad Langensalza is a memorial to the soldiers of the Kingdom of Hanover who died in the battle of Langensalza on June 27, 1866 .

History and description of the building

After the battle of the architect was based on a design Georg Hägemann an architectural drawing and of "Hägemann. Meyer ”, which was then reproduced by the JC König & Ebhardt printing company in Hanover as a 50 × 31.7 cm decorative sheet with a color lithograph in two shades of brown. Under the title line Langensalza Memorial to the Fallen Hanoverians is the text:

“Will be erected in the churchyard at Langensalza approx. 36 feet high v. Elzer - sandstone . The names of all the Hanoverians who remained in the fight, including as a result of the same , are arranged according to the regiments , d. Side faces included. "

The sheet shows within a decorative frame a neo-Gothic pointed tower with eyelashes and branches in a landscape. It was used for advertising purposes to collect donations for the construction of the war memorial . So the building could finally be erected for 2500 Thaler and was handed over to the town of Langensalza after the unveiling on June 27, 1868. Former field provost Karl Reinecke gave the inauguration speech .

The jewelry sheet by Hägemann and Meyer became part of the collection of the Vaterländisches Museum in Hanover (today: Hanover Historical Museum ). The 12 m high monument was - in contrast to the drawing on the advertising leaflet - fenced in with a thick iron chain between vertical cannon barrels.

literature

  • Johann Freiherr von Reitzenstein: Honorary memory of the officers and men who remained in the war of 1866 , Hanover 1896, p. 31
  • Alheidis von Rohr (arrangement): Langensalza - Memorial for the fallen Hanoverians , in: Lower Saxony State History in the Historical Museum Hanover (= department catalog of the Historical Museum am Hohen Ufer Hanover , vol. III), catalog edited by Alheidis von Rohr. With contributions by Waldemar R. Röhrbein and Georg Schnath, Hannover 1985, pp. 245f.
  • Horst Grossmann: Description of the monuments commemorating the Battle of Langensalza on June 27, 1866 , manuscript of 31 March 1994 - revised March 31, 2008, with photos and scans of historical documents also online on the side Merxleben .com

Web links

Commons : Langensalza Memorial to the fallen Hanoverians (Bad Langensalza)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Christian Kirchner: Bad Langensalza, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, Thuringia , building description and almost complete copy of the inscriptions on the monument on the website denkmalprojekt.org from May 25, 2007, subtitle online project Gefallendenkmäler / by genealogists for genealogists

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Alheidis von Rohr (arr.): Langensalza ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Florian Grumblies (Red) .: Field Provost Karl Reinecke (1797–1877) on the page hannover-historisch.de , ed. from the Historical Association for Lower Saxony , [undated, 2016?], last accessed on April 19, 2017
  3. ↑ Compare one of the photographs of the monument offered on Commons

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 30.9 ″  N , 10 ° 38 ′ 22.1 ″  E