Landgrafensäule

Landgrafensäule

The Landgrafensäule is a monument in Friedrichsdorf and is reminiscent of Landgraf Friedrich II of Hessen-Homburg, the founder and author of the city. The column on the Landgrafenplatz is a listed monument.

The Landgrave Column consists of a column on which a bust of the Landgrave is attached. The column itself was originally a border column and stood on the border with the duchy of Nassau north of the Saalburg. Between 1825 and 1827 a total of ten such pillars were produced, after an importation decree had been established with an edict from 1815. The columns were made by prisoners in the Zuchthaus Diez from Villmar marble. The design is by Karl Friedrich Faber, the coat of arms design by Johann Baptist Scholl. After the annexation of Nassau by Prussia in 1866, these frontier columns were no longer needed. The column was therefore auctioned in 1872.

The column, now with the bust of the Landgrave, was put up at the Sedantag in 1873 at the Schnepfenburg. The inscription "Herzogtum Nassau" was replaced by the new inscription; the Nassauian lion was given a second tail, a shorter head, and a crown, and thus turned into a Hessian lion.

In 1937 it was moved to the Hugenottenstraße 78 and 1984 to the present location at the Landgrafenplatz.

The bronze bust was made according to the land mask of the Landgrave. In 2012 the bust was renovated by the company Arnold. Edit source text

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