Schinkel tabernacle from Kulm
The Schinkel Tabernacle of Kulm from Fer de Berlin is part of a network of monuments for the fallen soldiers of 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:
The fallen
heroes gratefully honor the
king and
fatherland.
You rest
in peace.
Culm on
August 29, 1813.
history
The monument was erected in memory of the Battle of Kulm in Arbesau near Kulm. In 1857 the Schinkel pyramid was lifted onto a sandstone plinth and given a portrait of the Prussian king, so that the Prussian monument does not appear inferior to the Russian and Austrian ones.
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 ° 43 ' N , 13 ° 57' E