Mother Anna Memorial
The Mother Anna Monument is a monument to Electress Anna (1532–1585) of Saxony , known as Mother Anna as a benefactor , in the form of a statue on a diorite base, which stands in front of the north exit of the Annenkirche in Dresden's Wilsdruffer suburb and originally as a fountain was built.
history
In the city council meeting of the city of Dresden on May 8, 1869, at the suggestion of the clergy of the Annenkirche, it was decided to build a monumental fountain with an ore statue of Mother Anna , who also gave the church its name, to support the 100th anniversary of the reconstruction of the Annenkirche . The fountain was to be set up at the end of Annenstrasse, and the Güntz Foundation would bear the costs for the statue . It was decided on May 12, 1869 that the fountain would become the property of the city after it was built.
The Mother Anna Fountain was unveiled on October 8, 1869 : The gilded statue of Mother Anna was created by Prof. Robert Henze , it was cast by the Lenz Herold brothers in Nuremberg. A building director Friedrich was responsible for the architecture. The Kamenz granite pedestal was ground by the Rietscher company from Wiesa bei Kamenz, which also supplied the desired lamprophyrus for the fountain base . The Dresden company Mirus took over the entire construction work.
The lettering on the base of the figure read: Anna. Electress of Saxony. From the funds of Dr. Güntzschen Foundation. The City Council of Dresden. On the back was to read: Your contribution to the foundation of the Church of St. Anne MDLXXVIII (1578), gratefully dedicated, October 8, 1869. On the side there was a Saxon and a Danish coat of arms and four lion heads.
It is no longer known why the fountain was demolished on April 22, 1892. On May 11, 1892, the statue was re-erected as the Annendenkmal at the western exit of the Annenkirche on a diorite base.
It remained there until it was destroyed by the air raids on Dresden in 1945. The preserved and only slightly damaged bronze statue of Mother Anna was taken to the Old Annenfriedhof . As a result, standing under ecclesiastical protection , it escaped all scrap collecting actions in the 1950s .
At the end of the 2000s it was restored - albeit without the original gilding - and rededicated on a base made of Lausitz diorite on May 20, 2011 in front of the north exit of the Annenkirche. The base now only bears the simple (and historically incorrect in every respect) inscription: ANNA / Churfürstin / von / Sachsen.
See also
literature
- Detlef Eilfeld, Jochen Hänsch: The Dresden fountain book - water in its most beautiful form. Volume I. SV Saxonia Verlag, Dresden undated (2014). ISBN 978-3-939248-87-3 , pp. 157-158.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eilfeld / Hänsch, p. 157.
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 56.1 ″ N , 13 ° 43 ′ 37.7 ″ E