Bismarck Monument (Bad Kissingen)

The Bismarck-Denkmal in Bad Kissingen is located in the modern bathroom Kissinger Hausen district, where Chancellor Otto von Bismarck spent 1876-1893 14 spas. The monument was built in his lifetime in 1877. Shall constitute the first monument in honor of Chancellor in Germany

History

In 1877 the 1875 resulting Comité commissioned for the installation of a statue of the German Chancellor Bismarck in Kissingen the artist Heinrich Manger to set up a Bismarck Memorial. For the erection of a monument to honor a surviving personality approval of the Bavarian king was required. So wrote the Bavarian King Ludwig II, the monument " is [ ... ] not there to be built, where it was perpetrated by ruthless hand of the wicked to assassinate the Chancellor ," but situated on the Lower Saline in the park area on the Franconian Saale, so " at that point ," said the King, " where the same healing sought and found in the system of the visited by Prince daily saline bath ." Spa guests provided donations for the construction of the monument; in this way was a major part of the construction costs in the amount of 7,800 marks to be covered.

The monument was unveiled with detailed coverage of local " Saale -Zeitung " on Sunday, April 29, 1877 by 10 clock. In the " English court ," under which builders Manger, Councilor Dr. Stöhr and Mayor Dr. Full honor speeches were on Kaiser Wilhelm I and Bismarck Even during the hard Diners, came a thank you message from the Chancellor. Yet Bismarck is said to have never taken, despite his numerous spa stays in Hausen the monument in inspection, for he would be as he put it in a speech in the Reichstag on November 28, 1881 itself, " what of the biggest embarrassment [ ... ] with should pass on my face I statue. " It also bothered him, "if I so to speak fossil next to me standing there ."

The monument, which inspired example, the design of the Cologne Bismarck monument had to be galvanically provided for reasons of durability shortly before Bismarck's centennial birthday in 1915 with a bronze skin; This work was performed by the Geislinger Württemberg Metal Goods Factory WMF.