Schill Monument (Stralsund)
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The Schill monument in Stralsund commemorates the Prussian officer Ferdinand von Schill , who became known as a Freikorpsführer ( Schillsche Freikorps 1806/1807 and Schillsche Jäger ); he died fighting in Stralsund. The monument was inaugurated in 1909.
The memory of Schill is also preserved in Stralsund by further memorial plaques and the naming of a street and school.
Schill monument in the Schill facilities
A committee founded by citizens of the city of Stralsund, which was initiated by the First Mayor Ernst Gronow and which met for the first time on May 24, 1905 in the hotel "Zum Goldenen Löwen" on the Alter Markt , launched a call for donations for a memorial. In March 1908 10,000 marks had been received in donations; the costs were estimated to be about double. As a result, a number of events took place at which further donations were raised. The Wertheim department store donated 500 marks and the Tietz department store donated 300 marks. The city added another 3,000 marks and also provided a place at what was then the "Warmbad".
The model by Hans Weddo von Glümer was selected from the proposals submitted . The bronze statue was placed on the pedestal on May 27, 1909.
On the front of the base facing the Knieperteich is written in golden capitals
On the back of the base facing the Strelasund is a plaque with the following inscription (in capitals):
Ferdinand's v. Schill /
and his companions in arms "
Further monuments for Schill in Stralsund
Memorial plaque in Fährstrasse
On the night of May 30th to 31st, 1835, a memorial plaque was secretly set in the pavement in front of house 21 on Fährstrasse . At this point Ferdinand von Schill was fatally wounded while fighting with the French.
The stone plate bears the following inscription in gold letters:
- Schill.
- † May 31, 1809
The memorial plaque is entered in the list of architectural monuments in Stralsund with the number 172.
Schill's grave in the St. Jürgen cemetery
Schill's headless body was buried in an unknown location on June 2, 1809 in the St. Jürgen cemetery in Stralsund. The head had been sent to King Jerome. On the night of October 18, 1838, citizens of Stralsund placed a cast-iron memorial plaque at the presumed grave site.
The grave slab bears the inscription (in the original Latin, from Virgil's " Aeneid "):
- To have wanted great things is great. He sank through fate. The mighty hull lies on the shore. Ward also disentangles the head, for the body is not nameless.
Memorial plaque on the Neuer Markt
On May 28, 1936, a memorial plaque was placed on a house on the Neuer Markt , where Ferdinand von Schill had spent the last days of his life.
It bears the inscription:
- Ferdinand v. Lived in this house. Schill in the last six days of his life 25. – 31. May 1809.
Memorial stone and plaque at the Kniepertor
A Swedish fellow soldier of Schill, Friedrich Gustav von Petersson , was taken prisoner and was shot in front of the Kniepertor on June 4, 1809 . A memorial plaque and a memorial stone remind of this. The memorial stone was donated by Petersson's friend, the Landrentmeister and Royal Swedish Chamber Councilor Ehrenfried von Storch. The stone first stood in the garden of the Kampischer Hof , the Storch's former official residence. As a result, he often changed his location. In June 1932 it was moved to the garden of today's cultural history museum and in 1933, at the suggestion of the Stralsund Tourist Association, it was moved to its current location at Kniepertor.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 6.7 ″ N , 13 ° 5 ′ 18.2 ″ E