Yorck Monument (Königsberg)
The Yorck memorial was a memorial to the Prussian field marshal Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg in Königsberg (Prussia) and was created by Walter Rosenberg (1882–1945).
The occasion for its installation was the centenary commemoration of the Wars of Liberation , which was celebrated throughout the German Empire . The centenary took place on February 5, 1913 - the 100th anniversary of General York's address to the East Prussian Estates in the East Prussian General Landscape Directorate - in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his son Wilhelm von Prussia in Königsberg. The memorial was erected on the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig on October 13, 1913 on Walter-Simon-Platz in the Mittelhufen district and was ceremoniously unveiled by the Crown Prince and President Ludwig von Windheim .
After the memorial survived World War II , it was melted down in Kaliningrad , which is now Soviet , and a bust of Josef Stalin was placed on the base . In 1956 it replaced a mass-produced Karl Marx bust , which Boris Jedunov replaced in 1961 with a more artistically sophisticated one on a new base.
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literature
- Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
Coordinates: 54 ° 43 ′ 6.8 ″ N , 20 ° 29 ′ 26.2 ″ E