Schinkel tabernacle from Wartenburg

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The Schinkel Tabernacle of Wartenburg from Fer de Berlin was part of a network of monuments for the fallen of the Wars of Liberation , which King Friedrich Wilhelm III. donated. It's in Wartenburg .

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 was crowned by an iron cross , whose design, e.g. B. as an order, also goes back to Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The epitaph was deliberately chosen to be simple:

The fallen
heroes gratefully honor the
king and
fatherland.
You rest
in peace.
Wartenburg
October 3rd, 1813.

history

On October 3, 1863, 50 years after the battle, the monument was erected in memory of the Battle of Wartenburg in Wartenburg . Veterans of the battle could even be greeted at the ceremony to commemorate the unveiling. In the early 1960s, the heavily rusted memorial was torn down and replaced by a memorial stone designed by Erich Viehweger on October 3, 1963 - on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the battle. Only the tip of the Iron Cross was preserved and was exhibited on March 17, 2007 in a LEADER project behind a rusty wall right next to the York monument in the York Garden in Wartenburg.

photos

  • Replacement of Erich Viehweger in the old position

  • The top of the old tabernacle

  • The top of the old tabernacle

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 (Wartenburg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 49 '  N , 12 ° 47'  E