Pindarplatz

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The Pindarplatz is a lookout point on a ledge on the Alpsee in Ostallgäu , near Hohenschwangau Castle . It is about 30 m higher than the lake. It can be reached from the Alpsee circular route via a short branch path.

On the Pindarplatz.jpg

A prelude: Pindar adoration by Ludwig I.

King Ludwig I of Bavaria paid tribute to the ancient Greek poet Pindar (517 to 438 BC) by decorating his throne room (in the royal building of the Munich residence ) with relief images inspired by Pindar's "songs of victory"; these reliefs were designed by Ludwig Schwanthaler .

History

The Bavarian Crown Prince Maximilian (later King Maximilian II ) read Pindar's original texts at the age of twelve, together with the classical philologist and philhellenic Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch .

Maximilian discovered the lookout point on the Alpsee.

Thiersch stayed at Hohenschwangau Castle in August 1839 at the invitation of the Crown Prince. In a letter to his wife on August 17, 1839, he wrote about the walk to the lookout point:

"Friday [08/16/1839] began with rain, but it brightened around 10 o'clock. The Crown Prince sent for me, and after we had discussed the arrangement and conduct of his Greek studies, we walked through the Pindar with our pockets Forest after a rocky promontory over the lake, which he had leveled and secured, the new seat on the foremost edge, on which one floats high above the surface of the lake and as if in the middle of it, with a view over it and the mountains inaugurated immediately with the Pindar, and in the conversation and discussion, which lasted about three hours, the first two Olympic odes were brought to an end. Everything we read and made clear to him made the greatest impression on him, the Prince, and Pindar seemed to me to be new and rejuvenated at this point and in this environment. The wing beat of his mighty genius apparently hovered over us and his songs. "

This experience was probably the reason for Max to name the viewpoint Pindarplatz .

Pindarplatz was also one of King Ludwig II's favorite places . So it was quite natural that Richard Wagner , when he invited him to Hohenschwangau Castle in November 1865, took him to Pindarplatz (on November 16). Wagner noted in his diary: "With the bride [ie King Ludwig] from the castle ... to Pindarplatz, calm so uplifting, so beneficial ... "

The Pindarplatz in poetry

The poet Friedrich Beck sang about Pindarplatz in Still Life: Lyrical Poems in a new selection from 1861:

Poem by Friedrich Beck on Pindarplatz.jpg

Oddities

In the Baedeker Germany and Austria / Handbook for Travelers from 1872, Pindarplatz has an asterisk * and the, however, imprecise remark "(where King Ludwig always read Pindar)".

Web links

Commons : Pindarplatz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Heinrich Wolf: Historical-statistical individual description of the royal capital and residence city of Munich and its surroundings . Munich 1847; especially page 13 (Scan 17). Read online at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB).
  2. ^ Ernst Osterkamp, ​​Thorsten Valk: Imagination and Evidence: Transformation of Antiquity in Aesthetic Historicism . Berlin [et al.], W. de Gruyter 2011; especially page 86.
  3. ↑ A. Baumeister on Thiersch in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 38 (1894), online
  4. ↑ HWJ Thiersch, FW Thiersch: Friedrich Thiersch's life 1830-1860 , Leipzig [among others] 1866; Page 525 (Scan 585), to be read online at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
  5. ↑ Richard Wagner, Complete Letters , Volume 17. Ed. Martin Dürr. Breitkopf and Härtel, Wiesbaden et al. 2006; Pages 416 and 421.
  6. ↑ Beck's still life can be read in full online at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB
  7. ↑ This work can also be read online at the BSB.

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 10.8 "  N , 10 ° 43 ′ 44.4"  E