Wolf Pillar Friedewald

Wolf pillar in the Friedewald

Detail view of the wolf

The Wolf column (also Wolf Monument or wolf Monument ) in Friedewald at Auer is a hunting monument and was at the behest of I. Johann Georg , the Elector of Saxony, in memory of a particularly strong Wolf built the here on 20th April 1618 at a hunt in Friedewald was shot. All 36 people involved are carved into the stone base. The lucky shooter was called Anthoni Brum, was “hunter-young”, which according to today's parlance probably means a young, unskilled hunter. In addition to the servants also listed, he was one of the lowest in rank in the group.

The son of the elector, Johann Georg II. Had the monument renovated in 1672 and added another inscription on the back. It commemorates his successful hunt for a big red deer (16-ender) on September 4, 1672.

The last wolf is said to have been seen in the Friedewald in 1750.

A source writes that the wolf killed here was the last wolf to be shot in Saxony . But that cannot be true, since z. B. the Wolfsstein in the Saxon Switzerland National Park reminds of a shooting down in 1640 and the wolf column in the Laußnitzer Heide of a shooting down in 1740. The NABU writes that for the time being last wolf was shot in Saxony 1904th

location

The wolf column is located in the Friedewald not far from Auer in the area of the Weinböhla community , which has placed it under monument protection. The Lobetanzwiese is south of the monument and the S80 state road from Radeburg to Meißen (Weinböhlaer Straße) is north of the monument. The forester's house in Kreyern is located approx. 700 meters southeast of the column.

description

A rectangular pedestal rises on a substructure made of ashlar pieces , covered with inscriptions on all sides. The plinth with the wolf figure above the cornice. The monument is carved out of sandstone and has a height of 5.5 meters with a substructure. Other sources write from 4.5 meters. The seated wolf figure is shown approximately life-size. In the upper plinth under the figure is the inscription Renovirt Anno 1736, 1866, 1913, 1945, 1981 all around.

The wolf column was originally created by the Dresden sculptor Sebastian Walther . To what extent the monument still corresponds to the original, which was completed in 1618, is questionable, because over the course of time several renovations and repairs were necessary. Due to war damage, the original figure of the wolf had to be replaced by a copy in 1950.

The Wolf Pillar Laußnitzer Heide , built in 1740, is very similar to the Wolf Pillar in the Friedewald.

inscription

Inscription front

Inscription on the front

In the year 1618.
April 20
th, the
Serene Churfürſt zu
Sachſen and Burgrave zu Magdeburg
hunted
down the present
Wolff and shot
the memories for which
His Churf was thought.
Have this
forest sign made and erected
. What I found:

Inscription right side

Inscription on the right

Hertzog Johann Georg zu Sachſen Churfürſt
Sigmund Adolph von Ziegeſar Jägermeiſter
Joachim von der Schulenburgk
Ditterich von Taube stable master
Sebaſtian Bronſart Jägerm. to Schleuſingen
Hanns von Taube
Hanns Baſſel Virtſmeiſter
Hanns Stoll	${\ displaystyle \ left. {\ begin {array} {l} {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \ end {array}} \ right \}}$	Hunter
Claus Ringk
Caſpar Hütter
Hanns Albrecht von Bernſtein
Wolff Heinrich Bert Oberförſter
Chriſtoph Wolff Wildmeiſter
Hanns Dentzer Windehetzer
Hanns Georg Eckhardt	${\ displaystyle \ left. {\ begin {array} {l} {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \ end {array}} \ right \}}$	Visit servants
Michael Förſter
Caſpar Dichtel
Chriſtian Günther
Georg the Beyer

Inscription left side

Inscription on the left

Heinrich von Taube	${\ displaystyle \ left. {\ begin {array} {l} {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \ \ {\ text {}} \ end {array}} \ right \}}$
Christoph von Liebenau
Hanns Wilhelm Römer
Philip von Roden		Noble boys
Wolff Otto von Lindenau		by the year
Friederich von Stoer		rey
Hanns Heinrich von Zaschwitz
Sigmund Levin von Utenrodt
Christoph von Preuſs
Christoph Körner	${\ displaystyle \ left. {\ begin {array} {l} {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \ end {array} } \ right \}}$	Fort servants
Hanns Stittich
Christoph Haaſe
Hanns Bassel Ober Förſter
Christoph Schergott Veſter called	${\ displaystyle \ left. {\ begin {array} {l} {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \\ {\ text {}} \ end {array} } \ right \}}$	Fort servants
Balhaſar Günther
Hanns Schülz zu Meiſſen
Martin Petzoldt
Anthoni Brum	Jäger-Jung So den Wolff
	shot.

Inscription back

Inscription on the reverse

Anno Chr. 1672.
September 4th as the noble
ſte Chur-Füſst zu Sachſen and Burgk-
graf zu Magdeburgk Mr. Johannes
Georg der Ander at the
government the first Bruſſt-Hirſch from
16th ends ſo 5. Ct. 4. lb.
His
churfürſliche serenity have weighed on the Friedewalde this
forest sign
which by Dero honored H:
Father Chriſtſeeligſter Gedächtnüs
Anno. 1618. It was erected on April 20th
and ruined and received by
the weather for the length of time
- again on new ones to be
set up and made.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b The Wolf Monument in Weinböhla , Freundeskreis Freebender Wölfe e. V., accessed June 10, 2013
↑ ^a ^b Frank Andert: Stone Wolf recalls hunting 390 years ago. Elector Johann Georg had a memorial erected in the Friedewald In: Sächsische Zeitung. April 24, 2008 ( saechsische.de ).
↑ Weinböhla.de , Wolfsdenkmal, accessed June 10, 2013.
↑ Non-profit association to Coswig (Saxony): Guide through Coswig, Kötitz, Neu-Coswig and the surrounding area. Kötzschenbroda-Dresden, 1906, p. 32 (at Wikisource )
^ Wolfsstein in the Saxon Switzerland National Park , Friends of Freebender Wolves e. V., accessed June 10, 2013.
↑ NABU: The Wolf, A Surprising Comeback? accessed June 10, 2013.
↑ ^a ^b Walter Hentschel: Dresden sculptors of the 16th and 17th centuries. Böhlau, 1966, p. 156.
↑ ^a ^b Cornelius Gurlitt: The art monuments of Dresden's surroundings, Part 2: Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden. Dresden, 1904, p. 123 f. ( Digitized version ).

51.15916 13.61263Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 33 " N , 13 ° 36 ′ 45.5" E

[FFW-Denkmal-1] The Wolf Monument in Weinböhla , Freundeskreis Freebender Wölfe e. V., accessed June 10, 2013

[SZ-2008-2] Frank Andert: Stone Wolf recalls hunting 390 years ago. Elector Johann Georg had a memorial erected in the Friedewald In: Sächsische Zeitung. April 24, 2008 ( saechsische.de ).

[3] Weinböhla.de , Wolfsdenkmal, accessed June 10, 2013.

[4] Non-profit association to Coswig (Saxony): Guide through Coswig, Kötitz, Neu-Coswig and the surrounding area. Kötzschenbroda-Dresden, 1906, p. 32 (at Wikisource )

[5] Wolfsstein in the Saxon Switzerland National Park , Friends of Freebender Wolves e. V., accessed June 10, 2013.

[NABU-Wolf-6] NABU: The Wolf, A Surprising Comeback? accessed June 10, 2013.

[Hentschel_1966-7] Walter Hentschel: Dresden sculptors of the 16th and 17th centuries. Böhlau, 1966, p. 156.

[Gurlitt_1904-8] Cornelius Gurlitt: The art monuments of Dresden's surroundings, Part 2: Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden. Dresden, 1904, p. 123 f. ( Digitized version ).