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Regensburger straße / B8

Martin von Tours und die Kinder

Saint Martin of Tours and the Children

Gottfried Büttner
2004

Deuerling / Martin von Tours und die Kinder

Description

Bronze statue of St. Martin of Tours as a bishop, surrounded by disabled and healthy children of all nations, and also a depicting of St. Martin cutting his cloak. The statue stands on a hexagonal column with on the sides maps of the six continents (with surface, number of inhabitants and inhabitants per square kilometer), and below the map one of the Children's Rights:

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EUROPA: Recht / auf gesunde geistige und körperliche / Entwicklung und ärztliche Betreuung.
ASIEN: Recht / auf Schutz vor Vernachlässigung, / Ausbeutung und Grausamkeit.
ANTARKTIS: Recht / auf den Schutz der Natur zur Wahrung / der Lebensbasis.
AUSTRALIEN: Recht / auf Unterricht, Erholung und Förderung / bei Behinderung.
AFRIKA: Recht / auf ausreichende Ernährung und / sauberes Trinkwasser.
AMERIKA: Recht / auf Heimat und ein beschützendes / Zuhause.

The monument stands on a circular patch of paving with two thirds blue and his third brown, symbolizing the ratio of water and land in the world, also students' works were included in the paving.

Inscription(s)

Signed: singkreis deuerling

Information Sign

Martin von Tours
geboren 316/317 in Sabaria (heutiges Ungarn)
Soldat - Gardeoffizier
Taufe in Amiens (Frankreich)
Einsiedler auf Gallinaria (bei Genua)
Gründer eines Klosters in Liguge (bei Portiers, Frankreich)
Bischof von Tours (Westfrankreich)
gestorben am 8. November 397 auf einer Seelsorgereise bei Tours
Patron der Pfarrkirche in Deuerling
Die Kinder machten ihn zu ihrem Freund und Vorbild

Das Martinspatrozinium
die alte Königstraße
von Nürnberg nach Regensburg entlang des Labertals
und das nachgewiesene Reichsgut beweisen
dass Deuerling
ein königlicher Versorgungshof mit Kirche
schon im 8. Jahrhundert von den Franken
deren Reichsheiliger Martin war, angelegt wurde.

There are also some texts in braille, a.o. the alphabet.

Annotation

The statue was unveiled by Karl Jobst, the burgomaster of Deuerling, on 20 June 2004.

Saint Martin and the Beggar

Saint Martin is often depicted as a man on horseback sharing his cloak with a beggar. While Martin was still a soldier in the Roman army and deployed in Gaul (modern day France), he experienced the vision that became the most-repeated story about his life. One day as he was approaching the gates of the city of Amiens he met a scantily clad beggar. He impulsively cut his own military cloak in half and shared it with the beggar. That night, Martin dreamed of Jesus wearing the half-cloak he had given away. He heard Jesus say to the angels: "Here is Martin, the Roman soldier who is not baptized; he has clad me." In another story, when Martin woke, his cloak was restored. The dream confirmed Martin in his piety, and he was baptized at the age of 18.

Sculptor

Gottfried Büttner

Sources & Information

Singkreis Deuerling, Kulturwanderung durch Deuerling.
Laber-Jura.de, Deuerling: Denkmaleinweihung und Bürgerfest.

Locatie (N 49°2'16" - E 11°54'14") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: deby114; Photograph: 15 February 2011
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