Otto column

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Otto column

The Otto Column is a memorial column that was unveiled in 1834 in the Upper Bavarian municipality of Ottobrunn near Munich . It is the municipality's only cultural and historical monument . P. 88

The sandstone column p. 61 and 80 , designed in the Doric style , is crowned by a bust of the youthful Prince Otto von Wittelsbach . It marks the point at which on December 6, 1832 the 17-year-old prince, who was still a minor at the time and who was traveling to his future kingdom of Greece with a 3500-strong entourage , said goodbye to his father, King Ludwig I of Bavaria . P. 6 After the liberation of Greece from over 350 years of Ottoman rule and the assassination of the head of state Ioannis Kapodistrias , the Greek National Assembly elected the second son of Louis King of Greece on August 8, 1832 at the suggestion of the great powers Great Britain , France and Russia .

location

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The Otto column stands in the south of Ottobrunn in front of a spruce “backdrop” on the western edge of Rosenheimer Landstrasse (opposite No. 137 b). The former road to Rosenheim was part of an old trade (especially salt ) and postal route that led from the Munich Isartor to Salzburg and via Innsbruck to Italy . P. 6 Otto crossed a frigate from Brindisi to Nauplia , the capital of Greece at the time. In 1833 the place where father and son said goodbye was still in a dense, uninhabited forest (Höhenkirchener Forst) not far from a Wegmacherhäuschen (today no. 135) at kilometer stone 12.

Since it was built, the Otto Column has stood on a small, four-sided hill. A paved footpath leads there from Rosenheimer Straße, which is flanked on both sides by a fir tree and from spring to autumn by a flower bed. The Otto pillar is illuminated by headlights from nightfall until midnight .

history

Origin and early period

The Otto Column was conceived, designed and donated by the native (South) Tyrolean Anton Ripfel (1786–1850), one of the most important Munich stonemasons of his time. P. 12 ff. It is unlikely that Ripfel personally lent a hand in the manufacture of the column. P. 24 It is guaranteed that Otto's bust was executed by Josef Unold (born around 1809), an employee from Ripfel's workshop. P. 24 f. Ripfel submitted the application for the construction of the Otto Column on May 24, 1833, p. 20, the approval was given on July 7, 1833. p. 20 f. The foundation stone was laid on October 20, 1833. P. 21, 49–51 The unveiling was originally planned for the first anniversary of the farewell to Otto and Ludwig (December 6th) . P. 21, 49 was delayed by over two months due to bureaucratic and legal adversity. P. 21 f., 52–56 Only after personal intervention by Ludwig I on December 31, 1833, p. 55 could the unveiling on February 13, 1834 take place. P. 24, 58–60 King Otto personally inspected the column named after him on his first return from Greece to Munich on May 29, 1836. P. 72 f.

Ownership and maintenance

As a building , the Otto Column has always belonged to the owner of the property on which it stands. In the beginning, this was the farmer couple Thomas and Maria Huber from Hohenbrunn . P. 80 On April 12, 1892, the farmer and steam saw owner Franz Inselkammer from Siegertsbrunn bought the property at auction . After almost nine months, he sold it to the Kingdom of Bavaria . P. 80 This prompted the first restoration of the now 60-year-old column. P. 80–81 Since then, the Otto Column has been state, Bavarian property for eight decades. P. 87

After the Rosenheimer Landstrasse ( Staatsstrasse 2078) had been widened in 1976, p. 87 , the Otto column would have been exposed to increased levels of car exhaust fumes and road salt . P. 91 On the other hand, as the current owner , the administrative district of Upper Bavaria had no interest in investing in the existing monument. P. 88 In order to ensure the preservation of the monument that is central to Ottobrunn's identity, p. 89 and 91 , the municipality applied to the administrative district on November 13, 1975 p. 87 for a transfer of the property and pillar, p. 87 to remove the latter from the street to be able to move. P. 119 12 days later, the district committee transferred ownership of the pillar to the community free of charge, p. 87 , however, obliged them to take care of the maintenance of the petrol pillar from then on. P. 87 f. In 1976 the municipality had its landmark measured for the first time since its existence, p. 88 then extensively restored p. 89 f. and finally in the spring of 1977 move nine meters to the southwest. The most recent restorations so far took place in 2009 on the 175th anniversary of the unveiling of the Otto Column. P. 93 and 2015.

Size, structure and design

The above-ground part of the Otto Column is 8.70 meters high , including the accompanying staircase 9.60 meters. The Doric shaft is 4.15 meters high. It flows into a Doric capital on which the 1.41 meter high, gracing bust of Otto is enthroned.

The cuboid base is divided into three sections:

  • The lowest section is the lowest. Right in front of him on the street side is the Bavarian Lion , p. 61, whose gaze is directed to the south - symbolic of Greece.
  • The middle section bears an inscription on each side . The inscription on the street side informs about the reason for the creation of the column, the one on the back names Otto's most important Bavarian and Greek travel companion. P. 100 The other two texts are eight-line poems in the form of iambes . The one on the south side deals with the liberation of Greece from the Ottoman occupation , the one on the north side the posting of Otto to Greece. P. 101 It is questionable whether Ludwig I wrote the poems himself, as a contemporary source claims. P. 63
  • The upper section is designed as a three-tier relief base . Two friezes all around rest on a capital , rich in three- dimensional ornaments and - in addition to the bust - represent the most technically complex part of the column. The lower frieze has a pair of volutes on each side and a palmette in each corner . The upper, narrower frieze shows the combined coats of arms of Greece and Bavaria with a common crown and rows of flags with the letters "L" (for Ludwig) and "O" (for Otto), further bundles of rods and a lion as symbols of power and all kinds of war trophies, such as Helmets, breastplates, cannon barrels and bullets. P. 102 f.

The substructure of the column originally consisted of two structures: a cuboid foundation substructure with a paved topping layer , the volume of which is hidden in the hill, and a two-tier, square step substructure that protrudes from the hill above. A six-step outside staircase leads to the hill. When the column was moved in 1976, the underside of the substructure was reinforced with a concrete foundation and a 50 centimeter thick gravel substructure . P. 92

  • Bust, capital and shaft

  • Base and lion figure

  • Relief base

  • Poem on the south side

  • Bavarian lion

Significance for the history of Ottobrunn

Ottobrunner municipal coat of arms with Otto column

The beginnings of Ottobrunn as a settlement date back to 1902. The Otto Column and the event it commemorates have always played an important role in the history of the place.

Before the First World War, settlers called the second and third settlement areas on Ottobrunner Flur (at that time still part of Unterhaching ) unofficially "Ottohain" and "Ottokolonie". P. 83 On September 8, 1913, the royal government finance chamber coined the name "Ottobrunn" in a letter to the Munich district office as a collective name for the "colonies" in the Hohenkirchen Forest in the Unterhaching district . 83 On January 31, 1921, the State Ministry of the Interior approved this name.

Since the settlement of Ottobrunn from Unterhaching on April 1, 1955, the Otto column has been the focus of the Ottobrunn municipal coat of arms. The Otto column with the Bavarian lion resting on the steps and a fir tree to the left and right of it are depicted on a blue background in silver color . P. 93 f. A representation of the Otto column is also a central part of the Ottobrunn official seal . P. 6

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Ottobrunn's largest residential area, the "settlement on the Otto column" with over 1200 residential units, was built to the northwest and west of the Otto column. The street “An der Otto pillar” is also located in it.

literature

  • Oelwein, Cornelia; Murken, Jan: The Otto Column in Ottobrunn and its founder Anton Ripfel ; Ottobrunn (Otto-König-von-Greece-Museum) 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027536-4 .

Web links

Commons : Otto column  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao Oelwein, Murken: The Otto column in Ottobrunn . 2009
  2. ^ Wolf Seidl: Bavaria in Greece. The story of an adventure . Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1965, p. 72.
  3. ↑ Jan Murken u. a .: King Otto of Greece Museum of the Ottobrunn community. Weltkunst-Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-921669-16-2 , p. 20.
  4. ^ Wolf Seidl: Bavaria in Greece. The story of an adventure . Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1965, p. 72.
  5. ↑ Internet site of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation: Position sheet 1: 25 000, sheet No. 715 (Hohenbrunn), year of preparation 1853 . Retrieved March 23, 2013.
  6. ↑ Jan Murken u. a .: King Otto of Greece Museum of the Ottobrunn community. Weltkunst-Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-921669-16-2 , p. 60 (Fig. 56).
  7. ↑ Information from the Ottobrunn municipal administration (building administration).
  8. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (ed.): Monuments in Bavaria. Ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological monuments . Volume I.17 (District of Munich), Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-87490-576-4 , p. 216 f.
  9. ↑ All height information according to Oelwein, Murken: The Otto column in Ottobrunn . 2009, p. 105
  10. ^ Interest group 75 years of settlement area Ottobrunn (ed.): Ottobrunn. Settlement area and community. Editing: Benno Anderl, Robert Hetz, Willi Meier, Jan-Diether Murken, Johannes Zohns. Selbstverlag, Ottobrunn 1977, OCLC 635359518 , pp. 22-31
  11. ↑ Interest group: 100 years of the Ottobrunn settlement area. 2002, p. 235 f.
  12. ↑ Geoportal Bayern: BayernAtlas ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Official. Map> Address: Ottobrunn . Retrieved March 23, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geoportal.bayern.de

Remarks

  1. ↑ The official farewell had already taken place in the morning in the Munich residence . - Source: Jan Murken u. a .: King Otto of Greece Museum of the Ottobrunn community . Weltkunst-Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-921669-16-2 , p. 55.
  2. ↑ The fact that the column was an Anton Ripfels foundation was the reason for the fact that it was free of charge. Therefore, none of the previous owners had to pay a purchase price for the column.
  3. ^ According to Oelwein, Murken: The Otto column in Ottobrunn . 2009, p. 89, the Otto column was moved in 1976. This information is incorrect.

Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '10.6 "  N , 11 ° 40' 8.7"  E