Quedlinburg Roland

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Quedlinburg Roland

The Quedlinburger Roland is a 2.75 meter high Roland statue made of red sandstone on the market square at the southwest corner of the town hall of Quedlinburg . Its creator is unknown. With its size, it is the second smallest and one of the oldest surviving Roland figures, along with the Rolandes from Bremen and Halberstadt . It is registered in the Quedlinburg monument register.

GDR postage stamp from 1987

history

The Quedlinburg Roland was first mentioned in 1460 after costs for the repair appeared. It is assumed that it was built relatively soon after Quedlinburg joined the Hanseatic League in 1426 or the establishment of Roland in 1433 in the sister city of Halberstadt . It represents a figure of a knight with a raised sword and shield. In 1477 the statue was destroyed at the instigation of Abbess Hedwig, Duchess of Saxony . The remains were in the Ratskellerhof for almost 400 years .

The re-erection of the statue took place in 1869 at the instigation of Lord Mayor Gustav Brecht , but not at the original location. His place is today to the left or west of the entrance portal of the town hall. The city coat of arms of Quedlinburg lies at his feet as a mosaic. The figure is enclosed by a lattice from the late 16th century that originally came from an arbor of a building on the Markt 10 property .

In 1987 the Quedlinburg Roland was shown on a stamp issued in the GDR . At the end of the 1990s, lighting was installed in front of the base.

In 2013, as part of the redesign of the market, the foundations of the Roland, which had been smashed in 1477, were found in front of the house at Markt 5 , about eight meters in front of the protruding corner of the building. The Roland was freely available on the market until 1477. Previously, the presumed former location was a point in front of the Markt 4 building . On December 13, 2013, the restored Roland, including a new nose, was returned to the public.

literature

  • Bernd Feicke: The Roland von Quedlinburg. Symbol of royal privileges for the city's merchants - antipode to the city rule of the abbess of the imperial monastery. In: Harz-Zeitschrift. Vol. 63, 2011, ISSN  0073-0882 , pp. 125-138, (there images and further literature).
  • Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 742.
  • Roland with a new nose . In: Official Gazette of the City of Quedlinburg, 01/2014, pp. 10-11.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 173.

Web links

Commons : Quedlinburger Roland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The smallest stone Roland figure with a size of 1.90 meters, which was erected around 1600, is located in the courtyard of the medieval castle in Bad Bederkesa .
  2. ↑ Rolande. In: Harzfreund.de. Archived from the original on May 1, 2009 ; Retrieved May 20, 2009 .
  3. ^ Quedlinburg: Roland. In: Harzlandhexe. Retrieved May 20, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 29
  5. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 173
  6. ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, Quedlinburg edition, 23 August 2013
  7. ↑ Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 742

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 22.5 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 30.5 ″  E