Order for Art and Science (Lippe)
The Order for Art and Science (also Lippische Rose Decoration for Art and Science ) was founded on June 9, 1898 by Count-Regent Ernst zur Lippe-Biesterfeld in the name of Prince Carl Alexander zur Lippe .
Order classes
The order consisted of three classes:
- Order for art and science with the crown
- Order for art and science with oak leaves
- Order for art and science on the ring
All three classes were worn on the belt. As of February 23, 1910, the class with the crown was awarded exclusively as a neck medal.
Order decoration
The medal is silver and has the shape of an embossed five-petalled Lippe rose . Five gold-plated sepal tips are attached between the rose petals . The allegorical representation of art and science can be seen on the front in the gold-red medallion . All around on blue enamel FOR ART AND SCIENCE . On the reverse of a princely crown, the initial E (Ernst) raised and all the way around PENCILED JUNE 9, 1898 .
When awarded with the crown or oak leaves, these were attached between the medal and the carrying ring.
The ribbon is white with cherry-red side stripes.
With the abdication of Prince Leopold IV on November 11, 1918, the order was no longer awarded. During this time 130 3rd class awards have taken place.
Well-known medal bearers
literature
- Reiner Schwark: The orders and decorations of the Principality of Lippe-Detmold and the Free State - Land Lippe - 1778 to 1933. Topp + Möller publishing house, ISBN 3-9808505-5-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ludwig Hoerner: Photography and Photographers in Hanover and Hildesheim. Festschrift for the 150th birthday of photography, ed. by the Hanover and Hildesheim photographers' guilds, produced in the Bad Pyrmont vocational training center for typesetting, repro photography, printing forme production, flat printing and bookbinding as part of retraining, 1989, p. 32.
Coordinates: 51 ° 56 '10.4 " N , 8 ° 52' 39.8" E