Trier monument
The Trier memorial in Leipzig commemorates the Trier family, who laid the foundation stone for a midwifery school with their testamentary transfer of the Trier garden and buildings, from which the gynecological institute of the university hospital ( Triersches Institut ) developed, and also a new area for the University Botanical Garden .
history
After the death of his wife Karoline Friederike (1725–1771), the Leipzig councilor Carl Friedrich Trier married her girlfriend Rahel Amalia Augusta Beyer (1731–1806). In memory of the friendship and love of the three people, she had a monument erected in Trier's garden on the southwestern edge of the city, also called a monument at the time.
In 1808 the Triersche Garten became the university's botanical garden , and when it was relocated to Linnéstrasse in 1876/1877 because of the construction of the Imperial Court , the memorial was also moved there. Although restored in 1911, it fell into disrepair largely unnoticed in a remote part of the Botanical Garden after the effects of the war and air pollution.
In 1984, efforts by the university and the city began to preserve the monument as evidence of the lost garden art, but were prevented by a lack of funds. Donations from the Association of Friends and Patrons of the University made it possible in 1997 to restore and erect the monument in the garden of the former women's clinic on Philipp-Rosenthal-Straße.
description
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One of the tablets
On a base of granite a decorated stands sandstone pedestal with four inscribed tablets from Carrara marble . The pedestal is crowned by a sandstone urn adorned with wreaths. The larger-than-man monument is based on a grave altar borrowed from Roman antiquity .
The texts on the tablets are:
Front: Dem | Souvenirs | my beloved wife | CF Trier | born Trier | born d. December 12 | 1745, | d. February 1st | 1771 - Right: Left this | Set | my love | Wife | RAA Trier | born Beyer | August | FT - Links: Friendship | united us three | Love | two and two - back: hope | all three
literature
- Markus Cottin, Gina Klank, Karl-Heinz Kretzschmar, Dieter Kürschner, Ilona Petzold: Leipzig monuments . Sax-Verlag Beucha 1998, ISBN 3-930076-71-3 , Volume 1 pp. 76/77
- Nadja Horsch, Simone Tübbecke (Ed.): Citizens. Gardens. Promenades - Leipzig garden culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-95415-072-4 , p. 125
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Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 22 ″ N , 12 ° 23 ′ 58 ″ E