Schinkel tabernacle from Großgörschen
The Schinkel Tabernacle of Großgörschen is a war memorial in Großgörschen ( Saxony-Anhalt ) made of Berliner Eisen ( Fer de Berlin ). It is part of a network of monuments to those who died in the Wars of Liberation , which King Friedrich Wilhelm III. donated.
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:
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history
The memorial was erected in memory of the Battle of Großgörschen . In 1980 it was restored and erected on October 7, 1985 near the Scharnhorst monument in Großgörschen . The base of the monument has been preserved on the monarch's hill , the original location.
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: 51 ° 13 ' N , 12 ° 11' E