Rheinsberg Obelisk
The Rheinsberger Obelisk is a hero monument in Rheinsberg , Brandenburg, located in the park of Rheinsberg Castle . It honors the second son of the soldier king and 28 participants in the Seven Years War .
Location and importance
The obelisk stands on a hill on the Grienericksee across from Rheinsberg Castle . Heinrich von Prussia built it in the early 1790s in honor of his brother August Wilhelm von Prussia . The front bears a relief portrait of the prince and the inscription:
But the monument is not erected to the prince alone, but rather to the Prussian heroes of the Seven Years' War in general, all those who, as a second inscription says, “have earned through their bravery and insight that they will be remembered forever”. Prince Heinrich dedicated an inscription, written in French, to each of the officers on their own commemorative plaques.
In the walking tour through Mark Brandenburg has Theodor Fontane put the monument in memory. The fact that, in the opinion of Prince Heinrich, it honors those who were not duly appreciated by Friedrich II , Fontane interpreted as an act of opposition to the king.
Inscriptions
- James Keith
- Kurt Christoph von Schwerin
- Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau
- August Ferdinand of Prussia
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz
- Hans Joachim von Zieten
- August Wilhelm of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern
- Dubislaw von Platen
- Georg Vivellence von Wedel
- Johann Dietrich von Hülsen
- Friedrich Bogislav von Tauentzien
- Wichard von Möllendorff
- Heinrich Karl Ludwig Herault de Hautcharmoy
- Wolf Friedrich von Retzow
- Moritz Franz Kasimir von Wobersnow
- Johann Jakob von Wunsch
- Friedrich Christoph von Saldern
- Joachim Bernhard von Prittwitz
- Friedrich Wilhelm Gottfried Arnd von Kleist
- Karl Wilhelm von Dieskau
- Johann Ludwig von Ingersleben
- Viktor Amadeus Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Henning Bernd von der Goltz
- Heinrich Georg von Blumenthal
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Roeder
- from Marwitz
- Georg Werner von Dequede
- Balthasar Alexander von Platen
literature
- Adam Heinrich Dietrich von Bülow : Prince Heinrich von Preussen: Critical history of his campaigns , Volume 1, Himburg, Berlin 1805, pp. 383–395 (translation of the inscriptions)
Web links
Individual evidence
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↑ Der Schwarze Marwitz († 1759), presumably from the Sellin house , major and quartermaster, is said to have refused the king to set up camp for the Prussian army at Hochkirch , which proved to be foresighted by the subsequent attack at Hochkirch . Friedrich Meusel: Friedrich August Ludwig von der Marwitz. Berlin 1908, pp. 18-19 ( books.google.de ). Werner Meyer: Denied orders and suffered disgrace? Berlin 2014, p. 62, FN 208 ( books.google.de ).
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 56.9 " N , 12 ° 52 ′ 49.6" E