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Rotenburg an der Fulda
Lkr. Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Hessen

Am Kies

Moses

(Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה‎)
Biblical figure, religious leader, lawgiver, and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed
(Wikipedia)

Martin Schaub
2006

Description

Wooden sculpture of Moses - 4.5 m high - with several attributes, as grapes, a staff with a snake, the Torah, and a hanukkah, and the 'stone' tables with the text זכרה and gedenke respectively.

Annotation

The sculpture stands in front of the former Jewish ritual bath commemorates the mikvah of the once thriving Jewish community in Rotenburg an der Fulda and also represents Jewish religion and tradition with artistic means.

Sculptor

Martin Schaub (Krakow 1944), German sculptor, mainly in wood, from Rotenburg an der Fulda.

Sources & Information

Rotenburg an der Fulda, Skulpturenpfad.
Heinrich Nuhn, Die Rotenburger Mikwe (2006), pp. 82-85 (PDF on-line).

Locatie (N 50°59'50" - E 9°43'39") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: dehs140; Photograph: 7 August 2013
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