Engagement urn

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Engagement urn
View from the south
View from the northeast

The engagement urn is a listed monument in the district Alexisbad the city Harzgerode in resin in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located on the rock spur of the Habichtstein on the right, eastern slope of the Selke valley high above the southern entrance to Alexisbad. In the immediate vicinity of the engagement urn there is stamp number 177 of the Harz hiking pin . The Selketalstieg , which runs along the cliff path here , leads along the urn . A little further to the east is the birch house .

Architecture and history

The memorial commemorates the happy gathering of six young, aristocratic couples from Württemberg from September 10th to 13th, 1845. The engagement urn was donated by Prince Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen . The name engagement urn came about in the vernacular and is also used officially today. There is no record of an actual engagement for the meeting in 1845.

On a high cast iron base there is an attachment in the form of a vase in the style of classicism . The year 1845 or 1845/1846 is given as the year of origin.

The monument was made in an iron foundry in Silesia that belonged to the Hohenlohe family. After the urn was badly weathered, it was dismantled in 1960. Although the urn as an object from the “feudal era” did not fit the GDR's understanding of the state , it was restored on a private initiative. Supported by the companies Gebrüder Bamberg KG, Harzgerode, and the Mägdesprunger Eisenhüttenwerk Carl Horn KG , Mägdesprung , the urn was renewed in 1961 using original parts in Mägdesprung as part of the national structure . In 1992 the monument was renovated.

There are inscriptions on the base. The date of the meeting is noted on the east side:

THE
X.XI.XII.XIII.
SEPTEMBER
1845.

The south side names six names of the women involved:

CAECILIE.
CAROLINE.
CLEMENTINE.
FRIEDERIKE.
MALWINES.
PAULINE.

On the northern side are the names of the men:

ALWIN.
BRUNO.
KARL.
HERRMANN.
HUGO.
OTTO.

The west side facing the valley is unlabeled.

In local monument list the monument is below the detection number 094 50100 as a monument listed.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 5
  2. ↑ Engagement urn on www.harzgerode.de
  3. ^ Sigrid Elstermann, Thomas Nürnberg, Insights into the history of the health resort Alexisbad , 2008, page 36
  4. ↑ Rosengard and Edgar Presia, little chat about Harzgerode and its surroundings in Harzgerode - individual contributions to local history , publisher: Stadt Harzgerode, page 31
  5. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , page 1845

Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 46.8 "  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 52.1"  E