Silver pillar (Aron)

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Front view

The silver column is a gift of honor that was made in Königsberg (Prussia) in 1879 . The silver sculpture with amber inlay is a rare document of East Prussian art and administrative history.

Origin and provenance

The honorary gift is the work of the Königsberg court jeweler David Aron (1823–1896). The artistic planning comes from a person named Hesse (possibly the architect and Königsberg superstructure inspector Carl Hesse ). When the President of the Province of East Prussia, Karl von Horn, celebrated his 50th anniversary in service on May 5, 1879, the provincial district administrators and the officials of his authority gave him the 1 m high silver column. Where it was after von Horn's death and how it got into the Museum of the City of Königsberg is still unclear. It has been kept in the East Prussian State Museum in Lüneburg since 2016 .

dedication

The dedicatee and the occasion are written on brass plates on the front and back of the pillar base:

SEINER EXCELLENZ
DEM OBER-PRÄSIDENTEN
DER PROVINZ OSTPREUSSEN
WIRKLICHEN GEHEIMEN RATH
HERRN DR VON HORN

ZUM
50 JÄHRIGEN
DIENST-JUBILÄUM
AM 5TEN MAI 1879.

On the reverse, silver with amber inlay was used for the first time.

  • dedication

  • occasion

  • back

Goddess of victory

Victoria

The last war of unification and the establishment of the German Empire were eight years ago in 1879 . The Roman goddess of victory Victoria stands on the column . The upper end of the long rod carries a disc with a rim in relief; on it sits a bird with outspread wings. These parts are poorly worked out, so that details can hardly be determined. What is unknown is what the figure was carrying in the left hand that was open to grip; however, there is a round hole underneath in the base, in which something could have stuck like the rod in the right one. On the base of the figure, the designer Hesse is engraved on the front and the jeweler who made it, Aron, on the back:
HESSE INV.
D. ARON. KÖNIGSBERG I./PR.

front

The rooms of the high presidium and the official residence of the high president were in the south wing of the Königsberg castle . On March 17 and 18, 1882, the senior presidium moved from the castle to the spacious new building on the Mitteltragheim. Just retired, von Horn no longer needed to move. His successor Albrecht von Schlieckmann was able to use the new premises.

upper part

Above the lock engraving are those officials who administered Germany's easternmost administrative district in Gumbinnen or who worked in the tax administration of the province of East Prussia ; most of them have not yet been identified.

Government College at Gumbinnen

Paul Bienko , Krumhaar, Gustav Dodillet , Ludwig Ferdinand Hermann Siehr , Springer, Balcke, v. Roebel, v. Zschock, Risch, Wendland, Pfeiffer, Warmbrunn, Wiese, Goullon, Gericke, Kayser, Schmidt, Tomasczewski, Bühling, Groddeck, Guerich, Keller, Lempfert, Rudolf Theodor Möhrs , Arthur Germershausen , Caspar, Karl Volprecht , Ludwig v. Bornstedt, v. Liebermann, Czygan, Reisch and Liedtke.

Provincial Tax Direction to Königsberg

  • Hitzigrath, Loewe, Knoff, Rauschning, Kunicke and Hausbrand
  • Reich Plenipotentiary Kessler

Lower part

Under the lock engraving those officials are listed who administered East Prussia's western administrative district or who worked in the provincial school administration; most of them have not yet been identified.

Government college in Königsberg

Adolf von Schmeling , Krossa, Müller, Schönian, Wedthoff, Biefel, Schlott, Meyer, Franz Burchard , Julius Arnoldt , Dossow, Susitt, Julius Kummer , Bode, Mielke, Kretschmann, Singelmann, Meinzer, Herzbruch, Carl Hesse , Lindner, Siegert, Philipp, v. Fricken, Wegner, Schmiedel, Weise, Hoepker, Deckmann, v. Negelein, Hauschild, Erdmann, Goldschmidt, v. Woedtke, Tetzlaff, Ernst Gottlieb Krantz , Doerell, v. Winckler, Rauch, Heynemann, Grün and Sack.

Provincial school college in Königsberg

Adolf von Schmeling, Schrader, Hermann Gawlick and Ernst Gottlieb Krantz

right side

The two administrative districts of East Prussia (1905)

The (heraldic) right side of the column shows the new high presidential and government building on the middle support home . It was occupied in March / April 1882 and was also sufficient for the admission of the Provincial School College and the District Administrative Court. The police president of Königsberg and the district administrators of the administrative district of Königsberg are listed on the brass panels .

Left side

Aron's jewelry store and Hagen's farm pharmacy

The district administrators involved in the Gumbinnen administrative district are listed on the left side of the column .

Government seats

  • Königsberg Castle (front)

  • Königsberg government (right)

  • Gumbinnen government (left)

  • Berwart Tower and Castle Church

  • High presidential and government building

  • Old government in Gumbinnen

See also

Web links

Commons : Silver column (Aron)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Lorenz Grimoni, head of the Museum Stadt Königsberg from 1987 to 2016, researched in vain in December 2020.
  2. ↑ Gawlick (1819–1889) had attended the Herzog-Albrechts-Schule in Rastenburg and had been a member of the Corps Masovia since 1838. Characterized as a secret government and school council, he sat in the provincial school college until 1888.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Daugsch , Lorenz Grimoni : Museum City Königsberg in Duisburg , p. 181; Inv. No. 117.
  2. ^ Ulrich Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. Wurzburg 2002
  3. ↑ Tomasczewski, Benno (Tilitzki 2012)
  4. ↑ Wulf D. Wagner , Heinrich Lange: The Königsberg Castle. A building and cultural history . Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2011, p. 293.