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(Bezirk Mitte) Stadt Berlin Land Berlin Mohrenstraße - Zietenplatz |
Jakob von KeithJames KeithPeterhead, Scotland 1696 - Hochkirch 1758Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal. He ultimately came to serve in the Prussian army under Frederick the Great where he distinguished himself (Wikipedia) |
August Kiß & Jean Pierre Antoine Tassaert
1786/1862/2009 |
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Jakon von Keith Generalfeldmarschall Marmororiginal von Jean Pierre Antoine Tassaert, |
In the years 1794 and 1828 two more statues were placed on Wilhelmplatz, which were originally intended for other Berlin city squares. They came from the Berlin sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow and depict
On the advice of Christian Daniel Rauch because of the susceptibility of the material the sculptor August Kiß made in 1857 bronze versions of the marble statues. However Kiß designed the sculptures of Schwerin and Winterfeldt entirely new and and depicted them also in period uniforms. The original marble statues are at present in the Bode Museum.
The six statues survived the Second World War, but remained for decades in various deposits withdrawn from public view. After the turn of the millennium at the instigation of the Berlin Schadow Society was planned to replace the statues in the vicinity of their historical locations. The bronze copies of the monuments of Anhalt-Dessau Zieten and were placed on the metro island on the transverse axis of the former Wilhelmplatz in 2003 and 2005. The remaining four bronze statues found in September 2009, a new site on the adjacent Zietenplatz.
Tablet on the pedestal of Seydlitz' statue:
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Hier auf dem Zietenplatz wurden im Jahre 2009 unter der Federführung der Schadow Gesellschaft Berlin e.V. mit Unterstützung des Lions Club Berlin-Grunewald und des Landesdenkmalamts Berlin vier Standbilder verdienter Feldmarschälle und Generäle Friedrichs des Großen aufgestellt. generalfeldmarschall kurt christoph graf von schwerin Sie bildeten bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges gemeinsam mit den Denkmälern des Husaren- sponsoren [Names] |
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