Description
Two busts of concrete and steel, looking to each other.
- De Werth, with a cannon ball inscribed "Bruler le Palatinat", on a red sandstone sockle shaped as a defense tower (in the Hauptstraße)
- Kunigunde, the sockle is shaped as part of a medieval town wall (in the Kunigundenstraße)
Kunigunde looking at De Werth |
De Werth looking at Kunigunde |
Between the busts is a dotted line from white stones
Inscription(s)
Op de pedestal of the De Werth bust:
1689 pfälzischer
erbfolgekrieg
de werth –
– kunigunde
kirchner
retterin neustadts
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gestiftet von
architekt f.-karl
bangert neustadt
deutsche bank nw
private banking
schwenk-lösch
betontechnik
mandfred lösch
ungenfeld
i. mandt baden b.
jever krog +
kunigundenstube
jever pilsener
bischoff privatbr.
d.i t. deufel nw
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Signed: (both busts) mathäss
Annotation
Citizen's daughter Kunegonde Kirchner saved in 1689 the town from pillage by the French troops by her pleas to the French general Montclair with help of De Werth, with whom she was in lover (and later she married him).
Unveiled on 30 June 2000, the birthday of Kunigunde Richter.
Sculptor
- Bernhard Mathäss (Landau in der Pfalz 1963),
German sculptor from Neustadt an der Weinstraße
(Website – Wikipedia).
Sources & Information
- Leaflet Skulpturen namhafter Künstler in der Innenstadt von Neustadt an der Weinstraße (Tourist, Kongress und Saalbau GmbH, Neustadt an der Weinstraße).
- Duttweiler, Denkmal für Neustadts Retterin.
Tags
Locatie (N 49°21'9" - E 8°8'12") (Satellite view: Google Maps)
Item Code: derp123; Photograph: 20 April 2012
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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