Mohs memorial

Mohs memorial

The Mohs monument is a listed monument in the district of Stadt Gernrode, part of the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located in the Gernröder old town on the north side of Marktstrasse immediately west of the also listed building at Marktstrasse 8a on a small square and is listed as a monument in the local register of monuments.

Architecture and history

The monument was erected in honor of the natural scientist and mineralogist Friedrich Mohs (1773–1839) who was born in Gernrode on September 16, 1989, the 150th year of his death. At the same time, celebrations took place in Gernrode on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the city charter . It consists of a with a bronze plate provided erratic . On the plaque is the inscription:

CARL FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN
MOHS
1773–1839
PROFESSOR OF MINERALOGY
IN FREIBERG, GRAZ AND VIENNA
BORN IN GERNRODE
FOUNDER OF THE MOHSSCHEN
RITZHÄRTESKALA

literature

• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7.2: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Winfried Korf and Theo Gosselke: Quedlinburg district. Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-072-3 , p. 125.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronik der Stadt Gernrode , publisher Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV, Gernrode 2013, p. 73

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 29.6 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 32.5 ″  E