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Location: Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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3. View of Giebichenstein Castle – Riveufer on the Saale loop from Bebelviertel

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Michi LE

March 6, 2023

Erection:
1878
Donor:
Halle gymnasts
whereabouts:
available

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (* August 11, 1778 Lanz; † October 15, 1852 Freyburg (Unstrut)) is considered the initiator of the German gymnastics movement, which also earned him the nickname "Turnvater Jahn". The movement was linked to the national movement, i.e. its primary aim was not to encourage people to exercise, but to prepare young people for the fight against Napoleon's occupation of German territories in order to liberate Prussia and Germany.

During his theology studies at Halle University between 1796 and 1800, Jahn often hid from other students, presumably liaison students, in a cave in the Klausberg mountains. Here he also wrote one of his first writings "On the Promotion of Patriotism in the Prussian Empire". According to unconfirmed reports, he later hid from French troops in the cave that now bears his name.

During the wars of liberation in 1813, Jahn fought actively in the Lützow Freikorps against the Napoleonic occupation. As a supporter of national unity, Jahn was persecuted and imprisoned. From 1848 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, but clashed with the ideas of the revolution of 1848/1849.

It was to Jahn's credit that the first German gymnasium was built in Berlin in 1811. Under the slogan "fresh, free, happy, pious", the motto of the German gymnasts, he developed the gymnastics movement and his own world view and manifested this in his book "Die deutsche Turnkunst" with the wording:

Fresh, free, happy, pious
This is the Turner wealth!

later changed to:

Fresh, pious, happy, free
The other God be commanded!

It is assumed that this is an adaptation of a 16th-century student slogan, which states in the same way:

Fresh, free, happy, pious
Are the student's riches!

In honor of the father of gymnastics, Jahn, a memorial plaque was erected near the cave named after him, which was renewed in 1924. At the top it bears the symbol of the "4 F" of the slogan, the so-called gymnastics cross.

Source: halle-im-bild.de/fotos/denkmaeler/jahnhoehle

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Michi LE

April 22, 2023

Erection:
1878
Donor:
Halle gymnasts
Whereabouts:
available

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (* August 11, 1778 Lanz; † October 15, 1852 Freyburg (Unstrut)) is considered the initiator of the German gymnastics movement, which also earned him the nickname "Turnvater Jahn". The movement was linked to the national movement, i.e. its primary goal was not to encourage people to exercise, but to prepare young people for the fight against Napoleon's occupation of German territories in order to liberate Prussia and Germany.

During his theology studies at Halle University between 1796 and 1800, Jahn often hid from other students, presumably liaison students, in a cave in the Klausberg mountains. Here he also wrote one of his first writings "On the Promotion of Patriotism in the Prussian Empire". According to unconfirmed reports, he later hid from French troops in the cave that now bears his name.

During the wars of liberation in 1813, Jahn fought actively in the Lützow Freikorps against the Napoleonic occupation. As a supporter of national unity, Jahn was persecuted and imprisoned. From 1848 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, but clashed with the ideas of the revolution of 1848/1849.

It was to Jahn's credit that the first German gymnasium was built in Berlin in 1811. Under the motto "fresh, free, happy, pious", the motto of the German gymnasts, he developed the gymnastics movement and his own world view and manifested this in his book "Die deutsche Turnkunst" with the wording:

Fresh, free, happy, pious
This is the Turner wealth!

later changed to:

Fresh, pious, happy, free
The other God be commanded!

It is assumed that this is an adaptation of a 16th-century student slogan, which states in the same way:

Fresh, free, happy, pious
Are the student's riches!

In honor of the father of gymnastics, Jahn, a memorial plaque was erected near the cave named after him, which was renewed in 1924. At the top it bears the symbol of the "4 F" of the slogan, the so-called gymnastics cross.

Source: halle-im-bild.de/fotos/denkmaeler/jahnhoehle

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Ma Nu Ela 🇩🇪

April 23, 2022

The cave bears its name after Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, later gymnastics father Jahn. During his time as a student in Halle (1796-1800), Jahn hid here for several days from other students (probably from student associations). In the cave, Jahn wrote one of his first writings "On the Promotion of Patriotism in the Prussian Empire". After the Prussian defeat in the battle of Jena and Auerstedt, Jahn was among Halle's defenders. The fact that he then hid from the French troops in the cave is a legend and has not been confirmed.
The cave is smaller today than it was then, as part of it was destroyed when the Saale was widened. A stone staircase leads down to the cave. It begins on the hiking trail halfway between the Klausberg mountains and the steep banks of the Saale. In 1878 a commemorative plaque with a portrait of Jahn was installed above the cave. She also wears the four Turner F's which stand for "Fresh, Pious, Cheerful, Free".

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