Meissner letter stone
The letter stone in Meißner's old town is a baroque relief of a monogram from the 17th century.
history
The Meissen letter stone is said to be an earlier gate stone , which was probably created around 1690. It is now embedded in the eastern lining of the property Freiheit 10. This is on the Meißner Seelensteig, which leads up to the superintendent of the church district of Meißens and to Sankt Afra .
The 39 x 43 centimeter relief made of sandstone shows a baroque monogram of the intertwined first letters of the alphabet A, B, C and D. It is assumed that the letter stone was created as a souvenir of the Meissen chancellery used for Luther's translation of the Bible . Alternatively, the first letters of the names of the former owners of the property - the electoral civil servant Johann Christoph Beyer and his wife Anna Elisabeth Beyer - A, B, C and E are assumed.
The overall structure of the four interwoven letters in the relief allows each individual letter of the Latin alphabet to be read out . It must be taken into account here that no distinction was made between the letters I and J at the time of creation .
Replicas
A simplified replica was integrated into the facade of the Hôtel de Saxe on Dresden's Neumarkt in 2006 . The 35 by 35 centimeter copy is also known as the Luther stone.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Cornelius Gurlitt : Freedom No. 10 (40), Agricultural School. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 39. Issue: Meißen (city, suburbs, Afrafreedom and moated castle) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1917, p. 447.
- ↑ a b c d Information panel letter stone . City of Meissen
- ↑ a b c Bettina Klemm: The whole alphabet on one board . In: Saxon newspaper . DD + V, Dresden January 24, 2006.
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 44 ″ N , 13 ° 28 ′ 8 ″ E