Schinkel tabernacle from Bellwitzhof

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The Schinkel tabernacle of Bellwitzhof from Fer de Berlin was part of a network of memorials for those who died in the Wars of Liberation , which King Friedrich Wilhelm III. donated. It stood in Bellwitzhof (Polish: Bielowice) about 10 km south of Liegnitz .

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.
Katzbach on
August 26th, 1813.

history

On August 26, 1817, four years after the battle, the monument was in memory of the Battle of the Katzbach in the presence of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher , Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg and August Neidhardt von Gneisenau on Christianshöhe in Bellwitzhof (Polish: Bielowice) about 10 km south of Liegnitz . A small handicapped house was built near the memorial, where two war invalids who looked after the memorial were allowed to live freely. In 1945 the monument was removed by Polish pioneers. Today there are only remains of the plinth and ruins of the disabled house.

photos

  • Schinkel tabernacle of Bellwitzhof with the residents

  • Schinkel tabernacle from Bellwitzhof with the veterans

  • Schinkel tabernacle by Bellwitzhof for the centenary in 1913

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

Web links

Commons : Schinkelpyramide (Bellwitzhof)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 '  N , 16 ° 7'  E