Leibniz Temple

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Leibniz temple in the Georgengarten

The Leibniz Temple in the Georgengarten in Hanover is a pavilion that was built from 1787 to 1790 in honor of the citizen and universal scholar Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) who worked in Hanover . It is considered the first public monument in Germany for a non- aristocrat . The open, roofed round temple made of sandstone with twelve Ionic columns bears the inscription “Genio Leibnitii” in gilded letters .

history

Copy of the Leibniz bust in the Leibniz temple
The Leibniz Temple on Waterlooplatz , around 1825
Around 1858: Leibniz Temple in Adolfstrasse, steel engraving after Wilhelm Kretschmer

The Leibniz Temple (also called Leibniz Monument) was created based on a design by the Hanoverian court councilor Johann Daniel Ramberg and consecrated in 1790. The temple was built as a picturesque point de vue . It originally stood on a hill on today's Waterlooplatz . At that time this was a parade and exercise area in front of the Leineschloss . In 1935/36 the Leibniz Temple was moved from Waterlooplatz to its current location in the Georgengarten.

Adolfstrasse started from the Leibniz Temple and connected the city of Hanover with the garden and villa suburb of Linden . The street was laid out in the second quarter of the 19th century in the Calenberger Neustadt , from where it led to the Black Bear over the only bridge over the river, up until then .

In the center of the temple was the Leibniz bust made of Carrara marble , which the Irish sculptor Christopher Hewetson had created in Italy. The bust was funded by the ZN Order and was first erected in 1789 in the house of the Hanover statesman August Wilhelm Rehberg . The bust was praised by Charlotte Kestner . To protect against vandalism , the city of Hanover moved the bust in 1986 to the Technology Center Hanover (TCH) , the former administrative building of Continental AG on Vahrenwalder Straße . On 1 July 2010 as the birthday of Leibniz a concrete was cast copy of the Leibniz-bust erected in Leibniztempel. In 2013 the original bust found a new location in the Herrenhausen Palace Museum.

See also

literature

  • Eva Benz-Rababah in: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 213 (under “Georgengarten”).
  • Wilhelm Totok , Carl Haase (Ed.): Leibniz - His life, his work, his world. Hanover 1966, p. 88.
  • Ingrid Weibezahn: The Leibniz Monument in Hanover, history, origin and effect. In: Low German contributions to art history, Volume 11, 1972, pp. 191–248.

Web links

Commons : Leibniz Temple  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heike Schmidt: Leibniz bust badly damaged. In: haz.de. August 31, 2012, accessed August 12, 2017.

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '12.62 "  N , 9 ° 42' 17.15"  E