Equestrian statue of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. (Koenigsberg)
The equestrian statue of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. stood on the parade ground in Königsberg in front of the Albertina .
As part of the planning of a center for art and science in Königsberg by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. And Friedrich August Stüler should on the new building of the university (1857–1862) to the late King Friedrich Wilhelm III. to be reminded. The estates of the Province of Prussia did this in 1851 before construction began, by erecting a bronze equestrian statue in the name of the grateful Prussians , as the inscription said . Modeled by August Kiß and cast from captured French guns, the five-meter-high figure showed the laurel-crowned king in a purple cloak as a triumphant in the war of liberation . He reined in his impatient pawing horse with strength. The figure rose on a six meter high pedestal, adorned with six female figures representing faith, bravery, justice, love, peace and wisdom.
The base had three reliefs on the sides:
- East side: royal family life and the king in consultation with the barons vom Stein , Hardenberg and Scharnhorst .
- Back: Call for armament by Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg with Count Dohna and Heidemann.
- West side: A plowing farmer in a laughing landscape of peace and farewell to a volunteer Landwehr cavalryman.
The ceremonial unveiling of the monument took place on August 3, 1851 in the presence of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and the Prussian Princes Carl , Albrecht and Adalbert . The monument was considered the most representative of the city.
In the now Soviet Kaliningrad , the monument was removed and melted down in the 1950s.
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literature
- A. Hagen: A. Kiss' statue of Friedrich Wilhelm III. in Koenigsberg . In: Deutsches Kunstblatt 3 (1852), pp. 92–95. Digitized
- Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
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- The equestrian statue on the parade ground . Ostpreußenblatt , March 6, 1965, p. 10 (with a hippological commentary by Kurt von Knobelsdorff , former court stable master of the Ducal Anhalt and chamberlain)
