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Otto von Guericke

Magdeburg 1602 - Hamburg 1686
German scientist, inventor, and politician, known int.al. for the establishment of the physics of vacuums (the famous Magdeburg hemispheres); mayor of Magdeburg
(Wikipedia)

Carl Friedrich Echtermeier
Kunstgießerei Lauchhammer
1906

Description

Bronze statue of Von Guericke sitting on a stone bench leaning with his left arm on a book and keeping a plan of Magdeburg in his left hand. At his feed the Magdeburg hemispheres.
On the sides of the pedestal are two bronze reliefs:

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versvch mit den magdebvrger halbkvgeln
Experiment with the Magdeburg hemispheres

alt magdebvrg vor der zerstoerung 1631
Old Magdeburg before the of destruction of 1631

The Magdeburg hemispheres

Below the reliefs are lion's head spouting water in basins.

Inscription(s)

OTTO v. GVERICKE
1602 - 1686

IHREM GROSSEN SOHNE
DIE VATERSTADT
1907

Signed: C. Echtermeier 1906
geg. Lauchhammer.

Sculptor

Carl Friedrich Echtermeier (Kassel 1845 - Braunschweig 1910), German sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Das schöne Detail..., Figuren, Reliefs und Denkmale in Magdeburg.

Locatie (N 52°7'54" - E 11°38'23") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: desa021; Photograph: 1 September 2012
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