Rüstringer friezes
The Rüstringer frieze was a nail picture that was created during a war nailing in the First World War and represented the war landmark of the Oldenburg town of Rüstringen . Like the Oldenburger Isern Hinnerk , it was designed by Bernhard Winter .
draft
Winter designed the two-meter-high nail image based on a medieval seal image of the Frisian country Rüstringen , a storming forward warrior armed with a shield , spear and sword . It wasn't the actual figure that was nailed, but the background. It was a round wooden disc created by the Oldenburg sculptor Rudolf Michaelsen (1870–1941).
The city council of Rüstringen approved 2,000 marks for the production of the work .
opening
The inauguration of the Rüstringer Friesen took place on November 14, 1915 in the presence of the state's dignitaries . The pretty and popular Princess Adalbert (24) struck a first golden nail with a few blows of the hammer in the saber barrel. This was followed by the representatives of the authorities, the navy and the various bodies.
The Rüstringer Friese stood in the school yard of the elementary school on Mitscherlichstrasse.
Nailing and whereabouts
In the course of 1916 the enthusiasm for nailing also subsided in Wilhelmshaven. Thereupon the city magistrate decided as follows: "Because the nailing of the Rüstringer frieze does not cover the costs arising from the opening, it should be closed and housed in the town hall." The total proceeds of the nailing are not known.
The Rüstringer Friese was lost in one of the numerous bombings of Wilhelmshaven, to which the town of Rüstringen had belonged since 1937, during World War II .
See also
literature
- Gerhard Schneider : In iron time. War symbols in the First World War. Schwalbach im Taunus 2013, ISBN 978-3-94126413-7 , p. 492 f.
- Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon. Volume 2, Wilhelmshaven 1986, p. 650 f.
- Oldenburg house calendar , year 1943, p. 49. (Short report on the death of Rudolf Michaelsen)
- Hans M. Fricke: The life work of the painter Bernhard Winter. A tribute to his 70th birthday and on the occasion of the award of the Goethe Medal. In: Oldenburg Yearbook of the Association for Regional History and Archeology. Stalling, Oldenburg 1941. ( online )