Zoller memorial stone

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Zoller memorial stone on Münnerstädter Strasse.

The Zoller memorial stone is a memorial in honor of the royal Bavarian Lieutenant General Oskar von Zoller , who fell in the Battle of Kissingen on July 10, 1866 as part of the German War in Bad Kissingen.

The memorial stone is located on today's Münnerstädter Straße in the Bavarian town of Winkels (today a district of the Lower Franconian spa town of Bad Kissingen ) at the point where Zoller was wounded. The monument is one of the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered in the Bavarian list of monuments under the number D-6-72-114-253 .

history

When, after the war, the Bavarian Queen Marie Friederike von Prussia visited the military hospitals and theaters of war in Kissingen on September 22nd, 1866, she was particularly affected by Oskar von Zoller's fate.

Probably on behalf of the Queen, sculptor Michael Arnold made a draft for a Zoller memorial stone and suggested a broken column. According to a letter to District Administrator Parseval, the chairman of the monument committee founded in September 1866, Marie Friederike rejected the design. An alternative design from October 1866 with a cross on a rock was approved by them.

Via Count Castell she inquired about the exact place of death of the lieutenant general from the district administrator and bath commissioner Joseph Ferdinand Freiherr von Parseval. In this context, Adjutant Wachtmeister Düring turned out to be the most reliable eyewitness. Düring, whose horse had been fatally wounded by the same grenade as Zoller, had taken care of the dying Zoller until he was brought on a stretcher to nearby Nüdlingen , where the Nüdlingen pastor declared the lieutenant general's death.

In November 1866, Marie Friederike allowed sculptor Arnold to freely use the "original models for the statuettes" . The memorial was inaugurated on November 17, 1866; Michael Arnold received a fee of 130 guilders.

When King Ludwig II visited the Bavarian theaters of war, he also visited the Zoller memorial stone on November 18, 1866, the day after the inauguration . The memorial can also be found in Theodor Fontane's war report The German War of 1866 , although Fontane does not mention the sculptor Arnold as the author.

In 1977 the Zoller memorial stone was implemented as part of the expansion of Münnerstädter Straße on the side of the street opposite the previous location; At the new location, a new green area was created for the monument. In 1996 the memorial stone was added to the list of monuments .

literature

  • Elisabeth Keller: Die Flurdenkmale im Landkreis Bad Kissingen, Volume 1, self-published by the Landkreis Bad Kissingen, 1978, p. 69f.
  • Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 162 .
  • Werner Eberth : Michael Arnold. A sculptor of the late classicism . Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2001, pp. 50–55

Web links

Commons : Zoller Memorial Bad Kissingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Werner Eberth: Michael Arnold. A sculptor of the late classicism . Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2001, p. 210, footnote 23
  2. ^ Werner Eberth: Michael Arnold. A sculptor of the late classicism . Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2001, p. 210, footnote 24

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 '15.2 "  N , 10 ° 5' 36.1"  E