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Echternach

Place du Marché
(Dënzelt - Dingstuhl)

Statues de la façade de Dënzelt

Statues on the façade of the Justice Hall

Lambert Piedboeuf
1896

Echternach / Statues de la façade de Dënzelt

Description

The front façade has in the center statues of the Virgin Mary and King Salomon and on the corners the four cardinal virtues:

Temperantia - Restraint or Temperance. Depicted as a woman with a shield with a bird.
(no name) La Vierge à l'enfant / St. Mary with child
Prudentia - Prudence. Depicted as a woman with a shield with a snake.
Bottom row, left to right:
Justitia - Justice. Depicted as a woman with a palm leaf and a shield with a phoenix in flames.
Salomon R. - Le Roi Salomon / King Solomon
Fortitudo - Courage or Fortitude. Depicted as a knight in armour, with sword and shield with lion.

And on the east façade a smaller statue of:

Robert v Monreal 1539 - Abbé Robert de Monreal, abbot of Echternach 1506-1539.

Temperantio

Prudentia

Justitia

Fortitudo

Abbé Robert de Monreal

Sculptor

Lambert Piedboeuf (Aachen 1863 - Bad Reichenhall 1950), German sculptor (Wikipedia).

Location (N 49°48'46" - E 6°25'13")