St. Martin Mantle Sharing Sculpture by Bärbel Dieckmann

Sculpture in the park of Blomberg Castle, erected in 2000, artist Bärbel Dieckmann, Bielefeld. The Blomberger landmark in the roundabout also came from her.
The meaning of the jacket division:
Saint Martin shares his coat with the beggar.
Around the year 334 - Martin was 18 years old - the young man was stationed in Amiens, France. On a cold winter day, an unclothed man asks the people passing by for a donation. Martin, who doesn't have much, but asks himself how he can help the poor, unceremoniously divides his cloak with a sword and gives half to the freezer.
The division of the soldier's mantle with the beggar and its recognition - carried out in Martin's dream - by Christ himself as a religious act of love is called the "scene of charity". Martin, who has not yet been baptized, consequently acts according to Christ's interpretation of God's commandment to love: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Mk 12, 31; Mt, 22, 39) and in the dream receives the confirmation of Christ: "What you do to the least my brothers do, you did that to me ”(Mt 25:40). The consequence of Christian life illuminates in Martin's actions.

This hiking highlight is double in stock. The original (smaller number) can be found under the following link komoot.de/highlight/1501705