Hermann Heights Monument

The Hermann Heights Monument is a monument in New Ulm (Minnesota). It was inaugurated at the initiative of German immigrants in 1897 as a counterpart to 1875 completed Hermann Monument.

History

The monument was built on the decision of the German immigrant and architect Julius Berndt. He belonged to the Lodge of the Order of the Sons of Herman, which also financed the construction of the monument. As an example he used while the Hermann monument built near Detmold, which is reminiscent of the Cheruscan Arminius and the so-called Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, taught in the Germanic tribes led by Arminius, the Roman legions under Varus in 9 a decisive defeat. Next to the symbol of the pride of the German immigrants to their ancient homeland, it should also be understood as contribution to the integration and friendship between Germans and Americans. After laying the foundation stone for the monument in 1888 was, the construction was delayed due to lack of money again and again, so it was only completed on 25 September 1897, officially inaugurated. These gathered at the monument over 10,000 German immigrants in New Ulm.

In 1973 the monument on the National Register of Historic Places was recorded. 2000, certain of the Congress of the United States, the Hermann Monument as the official symbol of the historical heritage of German immigrants in the United States.

Architecture

The building is a total of about 31 meters high. It consists of a base made of Kasota dolomitic limestone. Then take the eleven pillars, eight meters high and mountable via a spiral staircase dome. It offers visitors a view of the Minnesota River Valley. On the dome stands by the WH Mullins Manufacture, designed by the sculptor Alfonzo Pelzer, Copper Hermann statue. It is almost ten meters high and thus significantly smaller than the statue of Hermann monument. Called them is Hermann the German. After the Statue of Liberty and the Portlandia it is the third largest monument of copper in the United States.