St. Jacob's Monument

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The warrior monument made of marble commemorates the defeat of the Swiss Confederation. Warrior on August 26, 1444 in the battle of St. Jakob an der Birs. In this bloody confrontation, 1300 warriors of the Confederation and 2000 warriors of the French died. Army. Inaugurated in 1872, restored in 2010
St. Jacob's monument by Ferdinand Schlöth
St. Jacob's Monument

The St. Jakobs Monument is a monument in Basel in memory of the Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs in 1444. It was created by Ferdinand Schlöth and erected in Basel in 1872.

History and description

The St. Jacob's Monument from 1824

As early as 1824, a memorial pillar made of sandstone was erected on St. Jakobsstrasse in Basel to commemorate the Battle of St. Jakob, based on a design by the painter Marquard Wocher . The old St. Jacob's monument was already badly weathered in the middle of the 19th century. In 1859, the Basler Kunstverein held a competition for a new monument, but the result was not clear. Johann Im Hof was the driving force behind the realization of the monument.

As a result, his friend Ferdinand Schlöth in Rome developed the solution that was finally implemented: Helvetia floats on a pedestal and brings the wreath of fame to four dying Swiss, who are grouped around the pedestal. One of the warriors is a self-portrait by Schlöth. The five figures are made of Carrara marble, the cruciform base, not designed by Schlöth, is made of limestone.

literature

  • Max Burckhardt : On the history of the St. Jacob monument and the St. Jacob festival. In: Basler Jahrbuch 1939 , pp. 94–126.
  • Veronika Hänggi-Gampp: The first St. Jacob monument in Basel . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 83, 1983, pp. 127–173.
  • Stefan Hess , Tomas Lochman (ed.): Classical beauty and patriotic heroism. The Basel sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth (1818–1891). Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Skulpturhalle Basel. Basel 2004, ISBN 3-905057-20-4 .
  • Stefan Hess: Between Winckelmann and Winkelried. The Basel sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth (1818–1891). Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86805-954-0 .
  • Brigitte Meles : Ferdinand Schlöth's St. Jacob's monument. In: Werner Geiser (Ed.): Event - Myth - Interpretation, 1444–1994 St. Jakob an der Birs. Basel 1994, pp. 140-164.
  • Brigitte Meles: The St. Jakobs Monument in Basel. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 912, Series 92). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2012, ISBN 978-3-03797-074-4 .
  • Alexander Schlatter : Also a self-portrait of the artist: St. Jakobs Monument, St. Jakobs-Strasse. In: Cantonal monument preservation Basel-Stadt. Annual report. Basel 2010, pp. 28–29.
  • Martina Stähli: The Influence of the Second Basel Artists' Society on the Creation Process of the Second St. Jacob Monument by Ferdinand Schlöth, in: Axel Christoph Gampp (Ed.): Der Kunst und der Geselligkeit. The three Basel artist societies 1812–1900. Publication on the occasion of the exhibition in Basel University Library, Basel: Basler Künstlergesellschaft, 2014, 978-3-033-04697-9, pp. 73–83.

Web links

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