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Marburg-BiedenkopfStadtallendorfFive Virtues Statues in Hatzbach
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Gießen District
Marburg-BiedenkopfStadtallendorfFive Virtues Statues in Hatzbach
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Five Virtues Statues in Hatzbach
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Michel ✔
January 31, 2021
Hiking
The figures were previously on the Fasanerie Island in the Lahn in Marburg. August von Knoblauch zu Hatzbach had it dismantled there since July 22, 1867, in order to set it up in the garden of his estate in Hatzbach. August von Knoblauch paid the impressive sum of 112 Reichstaler and 20 silver groschen for the time for the transport. He was probably not even aware of the important works of art he had brought to Hatzbach.
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•Michel ✔
January 31, 2021
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In fact, the figures were created around 150 years earlier by the Marburg sculptor Johann Friedrich Sommer (1684-ca. 1746/47). He received the order for this in the summer of 1718 …
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01:27
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Elevation 250 m
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