Maximilian II Joseph Monument (Bad Kissingen)

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The Maximilian II Joseph Monument in Bad Kissingen (2018)
The monument with a view of the casino (2018)

The Maximilian II Joseph monument in Luitpoldpark in Bad Kissingen , the major district town of the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen, represents the Bavarian King Maximilian II Joseph . It is one of the Bad Kissingen monuments and is under the number D-6-72 -114-23 registered in the Bavarian Monument List .

history

planning

The monument created by the sculptor Michael Arnold was erected in 1869 and is now located in front of the casino of the Bad Kissinger Luitpoldbad in Luitpoldpark . The marble monument stands on a limestone plinth with an inscription.

Arnold had already sent two letters to King Maximilian II Joseph in 1863 and requested the creation of a memorial, but the letters went unanswered. When the king died unexpectedly of blood poisoning on March 10, 1864, a committee was founded to erect a memorial, which raised funds for this purpose. A first draft of Arnold's shows King Maximilian II Joseph in civilian clothes as a private scholar, who the king felt himself to be, but this draft was rejected by the Munich ministerial bureaucracy. Instead, Arnold designed the present-day appearance of the monument in the “costume of the Grand Master of the Order of Hubert, surrounded by the royal ermine cloak”.

However, the erection of the monument planned for the summer of 1866 failed due to the outbreak of the German War . Since Arnold's studio was spared during the Battle of Kissingen , the probably already finished memorial was probably saved from destruction.

revelation

As the local Saale newspaper reported on August 20, 1869, the memorial was to be unveiled on August 25 at the Grand Hotel Hailmann ( Am Kurgarten 6 , today Haus Collard ). The there already located, created by Arnold also Hygieia group of sculptures from the later location of 1910/11 created Wandelhalle added. As the son of Maximilian II Joseph, the Bavarian King Ludwig II , was expected to inaugurate the monument, Arnold was commissioned to create a triumphal arch. The triumphal arch showed a goddess of grace holding a banner with the name of King Ludwig II and the date August 25, 1869 in her hands. Arnold pasted a picture of the triumphal arch taken by court photographer Frisch in his photo album. However, the monument unveiling took place without King Ludwig II, as he canceled the day before.

On August 26th, the Saale-Zeitung reported on the spa garden lighting that took place on the evening before the unveiling and the impression made by the triumphal arch created by Arnold. The actual ceremony began on the morning of the unveiling of the monument with gunfire during the day reveille at 6:00 a.m. After the monument was unveiled by District Judge Debon, it was blessed by Würzburg Bishop Georg Anton von Stahl . King Ludwig II thanked him in a letter dated August 26, 1869 for the erection of the monument. The unveiling of the monument found extensive coverage in the Leipzig “Illustrirten Zeitung”.

Transfer to the casino

In 1911, at the instigation of the Munich ministerial bureaucracy and the architect Max Littmann , the monument was moved to its current location in front of the casino. In a letter dated July 1, 1912, lawyer Buhlheller, on behalf of Miss Mathilde Collard of the Collard house (Am Kurgarten 6), appealed against the relocation of the monument. She argued that the Hygieia figure group had once been set up to calm traffic, and feared an increase in traffic if the monument to King Maximilian II Joseph were now also removed. With a letter of October 2, 1912, the government of Lower Franconia followed the argument of traffic calming, but did not want to commit to Ms. Collard. By letter of March 11, 1913, the relocation of the monument was approved. Why King Ludwig III. as a descendant of King Maximilian II Joseph raised no objections to the transfer is unknown. The monument was placed in front of the casino with its back to it.

In connection with the renovation of the Luitpoldbad in 2017, the monument was moved 25 meters away from the casino and rotated 180 degrees so that it is now set up with a view towards the casino.

literature

  • Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 40 .
  • Werner Eberth : Michael Arnold - A sculptor of late classicism , Theresienbrunnen-Verlag Bad Kissingen, 2001, pp. 99-107

Web links

Commons : Monument Max II in Luitpoldpark (Bad Kissingen)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian Main State Archives Munich (Secret House Archives, Kab. Akt König Maximilian II. 349 a – 2)
  2. ^ "Ilustrirte Zeitung" (Leipzig), No. 1364 of August 21, 1869
  3. ^ StA WÜ, Filing of State. Kurverwaltung Nr. 201: Relocation of the König Max monument in 1912 re.
  4. ↑ Benedikt Borst: Luitpoldbad: A king hangs on the ropes. In: Saale newspaper . March 28, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2018 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 47.8 "  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 30.68"  E