Rotteck Monument
The Rotteck monument is a bust of Karl von Rotteck (1775–1840) in the old town of Freiburg im Breisgau .
After Karl von Rotteck's death in 1840 there were plans in Freiburg to erect a memorial for him here. The memorial committee was headed by Rotteck's companion Carl Theodor Welcker and obtained the necessary funds without the support of the city. The first plans were to erect a granite column on the Schlossberg in his honor .
It was not until 1844 that the city council approved the installation on Franziskanerplatz (today Rathausplatz ▼ ) . Completion was delayed, however, because the Bavarian King Ludwig I intervened and forced the retirement of the originally selected artist Ludwig Schwanthaler . The Frankfurt sculptor Johann Nepomuk Zwerger then designed the bust and cast it in bronze in Munich in 1847.
In autumn 1847, however, the district government prohibited the erection of the monument for the opposition activists after the construction site had already been set up. It was not until October 1848 that the head and shoulder bust was placed on a massive octagonal fountain column that had already existed before. The construction, however, took place behind a wooden shed, which remained until the failure of the Baden Revolution of 1848/1849 . The era of reaction followed , in which the Grand Duchy of Baden was occupied by Prussia . On May 31, 1850, the wooden shed was removed at night. The client for this was Baron Mariano von Sarachaga-Uria , the town hall director and representative of Prussia, for whom the wooden shed spoiled the view from the town hall, which served as his official residence and residence.
A dispute broke out between the monument committee and the city over the nightly unveiling of the bust. Since the Freiburg residents had been missing a fountain on Rathausplatz for years, the local council decided on May 23, 1851 to convert the monument into a fountain, but to keep the sculpture. In June 1851, Sarachaga-Uria obtained that the mayor ordered the monument to be demolished. Uria had the bust removed on the night of June 22nd to 23rd. City building advisor and council member Schmidt protested that night against the demolition and was imprisoned for it. In 1853, a monument for Berthold Schwarz was inaugurated by Josef Alois Knittel at the same location , which is enthroned on a fountain. The new location for the bust of Rotteck was the basement of the then university library in Bertoldstrasse ▼ , while the plinth was stored in the building yard.
A decade later, in the autumn of 1861, Mayor Eduard Fauler had the monument erected on what was then Rotteckplatz ▼ across from Rotteck's birthplace and former residence at the city's expense . Today the Rotteckring passes here at the level of the Colombischlössle . The bust received a base made of syenite , which only bears the name Rotteck as an inscription. The monument remained here for 84 years. When the site was needed for the construction of parking spaces for the tourist office, the monument was removed.
From 1937, von Rotteck's monument found a third site in front of the grammar school, which bore his name. With the demolition of this ancient Rotteck Gymnasium ▼ and construction of the University Library, the monument had to give way here.
After it had been in storage for nine years, the monument was erected on the square of the Old Synagogue in front of Kollegiengebäude II of the University ▼ because of an approaching larger meeting of the descendants of Rottecks , where it was removed at the end of 2015 due to the redesign of the square.
Contrary to the advice of the Art Commission to set it up again in front of Rotteck's birthplace at Rathausgasse 33, the municipal council decided in 2016 to set it up on the green space in front of Peterhof . This is not expected to happen until 2025 after the college building II has been renovated.
literature
- Freiburg, then - yesterday - today. The city through the last 100 years. Steinkopf Verlag, 2004.
- Ute Scherb: Liberal looking for a location. The monument to Carl von Rotteck . In: Michael Klant (Ed.): Sculpture in Freiburg. 19th century art in public spaces. Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-922675-77-8 , pp. 56-62.
- Rudolf Muhs: Rotteck and his memorial . In: Freiburg University Gazette. 23 (1984) No. 83, pp. 49-75.
- R. v. R .: The memorial of a German patriot . In: The Gazebo . Issue 36, 1862, pp. 564-565 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Inauguration of the Rotteck monument in 1862 near Alt-Freiburg
- Rotteck monument on the street of democracy
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Scherb, p. 59
- ↑ a b c d e f Peter Kalchthaler : Freiburg: A monument that often went on trips . In: Badische Zeitung. August 16, 2010, accessed July 2, 2011
- ↑ a b Scherb, p. 60
- ↑ Friedrich Kempf: Public fountains and monuments. In: Freiburg im Breisgau. The city and its buildings. HM Poppen & Sohn, Freiburg 1898, p. 494
- ↑ Germany. Freiburg. In: New Freiburg newspaper. June 2, 1850.
- ↑ a b c Scherb, p. 61
- ↑ Simone Höhl: Freiburg: Carl vacates his place on Rotteckring. Badische Zeitung, December 2, 2015, accessed on May 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Peter Kalchthaler: Freiburg Mitte: Wiedersehen !: The Rotteck memorial is currently in storage - and has already moved several times. Badische Zeitung, May 17, 2016, accessed on May 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Fabian Vögtle: Rotteck bust will remain in a university depot until 2025. In: Badische Zeitung . January 21, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
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