Castle medal

The castle medal was a medal commissioned by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1857 , which commemorated the new construction and inauguration of the Schwerin Palace and was awarded by the Grand Duke to people involved in the construction.

layout

The medal designed by the Schwerin medalist Hieronymus (Heinrich) Wilck has a diameter of 45.10 millimeters and weighs 42.57 grams (in silver). As an ingenious design principle, it shows the old Schwerin castle from the lake side on one side, including the Latin inscription CASTELLUM VETUS SVERINENSE and the signature H WILCK FEC [IT] , on the other side a view of the new castle from the city side, including the inscription FREDERICUS FRANCISCUS DENUO CONDIDIT MDCCCLVII .

The medal was made in gold, silver and a bronze alloy.

Award

The princely guests of honor at the inauguration ceremony on May 26, 1857 received the gold medal.

It was awarded to those involved in the construction and the inauguration according to their degree of cooperation and their merit .

In gold

the court building officer Demmler
the secret senior building officer Stüler

In silver

the court building advisor Willebrand
the builder Behncke
the painters Fischer , Gillmeister , Jentzen , Lenthe and Schlöpke
the Advocat Hobein (for the libretto of the opera Johann Albrecht played at the inauguration )
the singer Formes
Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch

In bronze

the building manager Stern
the architect Lukow
the sculptors Petters , Schiele, Scholimus
the foremen Glatz, Köpcke, Niemann, Zogmann
the editor Dr. Friedrich Eggers in Berlin (for the inscriptions under the statues of Mecklenburg princes)
the gardening director Klett

At the same time, the King of Prussia decorated court building officer Willebrand, master builder Behncke, gardening director Klett, court painter Lenthe and the painters Gillmeister and Pfannschmidt with the 4th class of the Red Eagle for their outstanding artistic achievements .

literature

Michael Kunzel: The Gnadenpfennige and event medals of the ruling dukes and grand dukes of Mecklenburg: 1537 to 1918. Rostock: Schmidt-Römhild 1995 ISBN 3-7950-3704-2 , p. 88f, no. 73
Torsten Fried: Coined power: Coins and medals of the Mecklenburg dukes as a sign of princely rule. Cologne [u. a.]: Böhlau 2015 (= Archive for Cultural History / Supplements 76), zugl .: Greifswald, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2013 ISBN 978-3-412-22442-4 , pp. 281f
Künker auction 247 - 500 years of history and art as reflected in the medal: The Georg Baums Collection. P. 372 no. 5908 (with ill.)

Individual evidence

↑ Wilck died immediately afterwards on June 12, 1857 at the age of 33 of emaciation (Schwerin death register, accessed via ancestry.com on November 3, 2017)
↑ Fried (lit.)
↑ Ludwig Fromm: Chronicle of the capital and residence city Schwerin: with use of the latest research. Schwerin: von Oertzen 1862, p. 457, there also the list of recipients
^ GC Friedrich Lisch (1801-1883): Schwerin estate and letters in external institutions: Finding aid for inventory 10.9-L / 6. Schwerin: State Main Archives 2001, p. 36

[1] Wilck died immediately afterwards on June 12, 1857 at the age of 33 of emaciation (Schwerin death register, accessed via ancestry.com on November 3, 2017)

[2] Fried (lit.)

[3] Ludwig Fromm: Chronicle of the capital and residence city Schwerin: with use of the latest research. Schwerin: von Oertzen 1862, p. 457, there also the list of recipients

[4] GC Friedrich Lisch (1801-1883): Schwerin estate and letters in external institutions: Finding aid for inventory 10.9-L / 6. Schwerin: State Main Archives 2001, p. 36