Hakenberg Victory Column

The Victory Column Hook Mountain is a 36 -meter high monument in Hakenberg of Fehrbellin. It recalls the victorious battle of Fehrbellin Elector of Brandenburg Friedrich Wilhelm against Sweden on June 18, 1675 and stands on the hill, where there was the emplacement of Brandenburg during the battle.

The Victory Column is an initiative of Crown Prince Frederick William ( afterwards the Emperor Frederick III. ), Who took the foundation stone was laid on 18 June 1875. The draft of the monument Government Spieker delivered in Berlin, was responsible for the construction management district architect of Lancizolle. The basement was executed in gray sandstone, the tower was built of field stones of fire Ketziner and Hennigsdorfer brickworks and clinker with yellow Silesian Verblendsteinen. The construction costs amounted to 100,000 marks. On the tenth Sedan Day, September 2, 1879 the dedication took place.

The bipartite base has the shape of a cube with four truncated corners. On it rests a round tower-like structure carrying at a height of 23 m, a surrounding gallery and viewing platform. The gallery is reached by 114 steps and consists of an iron lattice-work, in the middle on a gray sandstone cone the 4.15 meters high, 15.5 ton (later plated ) Bronze statue of the goddess of victory, Victoria. It is a reproduction cast of Victoria, the Christian Daniel Rauch was created in 1843 for the Berlin Belle- Alliance-Platz, poured into the art and bell foundry Lauchhammer.

In the basement is an inscription plaque with the dedication inscription above is inserted outside an oversized Blend niche with a colossal bust of Friedrich Wilhelm. The inscription plaque and the glare niche emerged from reddish brown Swedish granite, while the Elector - bust was created from a design by Andreas Schlüter in Carrara marble in the sculpture workshop of Albert Wolff.

Gallery

Victoria

Bust of the Great Elector

View from the monument towards Hakenberg