Schinkel tabernacle from Belle Alliance
The Schinkel tabernacle by Belle Alliance from Fer de Berlin is part of a network of monuments for the fallen of the Wars of Liberation , which King Friedrich Wilhelm III. donated. It's in Planzenoit .
description
The monument to the victorious battles against Napoleon was designed in the form of a Gothic tabernacle from 1817-1818 by the Royal Prussian Iron Foundry . The monument is approx. 6 m high and weighs 3.5 t. It is crowned by an iron cross whose design, e.g. B. as an order, also goes back to Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The epitaph is deliberately chosen to be simple:
The fallen
heroes gratefully honor the
king and
fatherland.
You rest
in peace.
Belle Alliance
on June 18, 1815.
history
The monument was erected in Plancenoit in memory of the Battle of Waterloo , from where Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz and IV Corps intervened in the battle. After heavy fighting, he captured the strategically important village of Plancenoit. Wellington was exonerated and also went on the attack. The French troops were wiped out and on their flight they were followed all night by the Prussians, this time under the leadership of Gneisenau. The memorial was erected to commemorate the approximately 6,700 Prussians who fell. The French troops under Marshal Étienne-Maurice Gérard damaged the monument when they invaded Belgium in 1832 as part of the Belgian Revolution against the Dutch. The monument was restored in 1832, 1944, 1965 and 1997.
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literature
- Barry Bergdoll: Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Prussia's most famous builder . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1994
- Mario A. Zadow: Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Life and work . Edition Axel Menges , Stuttgart 2001, 3rd edition 2003 ISBN 3-932565-29-0
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel - architect, painter, furniture designer, stage designer and art philosopher . U. Michas: Every free moment is a blissful one . RG Scharmann: … Schinkel and the Prussian royal family . E. Börsch-Supan: Churches as ´monuments´ of the wars of liberation . J. Feustel : Pointing to the higher world . R. Schmook: Schinkel's rural buildings in the Oderland . In: Die Mark Brandenburg , Issue 61, Marika Großer Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-910134-24-9
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Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ N , 4 ° 26 ′ E