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Weisheitstempel Pavilion (Theresienstein Park)

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    June 15, 2025

    To preserve their father's memory for a long time, the brothers Carl, Jean, and Georg Weisheit had this statue transported from the 1906 Bavarian State Exhibition in Nuremberg to Hof and donated it to the city in exchange for the Theresienstein. Thus, to this day, everyone who passes by is reminded of the Royal Bavarian Railway Master Heinrich Weisheit.

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      December 29, 2022

      The name "Wisheit" has nothing to do with the desirable quality of old age, but is the surname of the donor: The three brothers Carl, Jean (Hans) and Georg Wisdom donated the pavilion to the city in 1907 to "their beloved father Heinrich Wisdom". to dedicate a lasting memory. The temple was in 1906 at the Bavarian State Exhibition in Nuremberg. It came from the Rhöner company Leimbach & Co. from Nordheim, which processed basalt (see site plan section of the exhibition card from that time). Purchased from the Wisdoms after the end of the exhibition, the individual parts were transported to the park in Hof in five truckloads, each weighing 10 tons.

      Heinrich Wisdom came from a destitute family in Blaich near Kulmbach. His wife Dorothea bore him ten children, four of whom died in infancy. With diligence and ability, he made it far in his career to become the “Royal Bavarian Railway Master” at the Hof border station between the kingdoms of Saxony and Bavaria. His son Georg also made a career. He became a successful building contractor in Nuremberg, whose houses are still magnificent today. It can be assumed that he knew Georg Leimbach, the head of Leimbach & Co., and bought his “temple” from him at the end of the state exhibition.

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        June 28, 2021

        The Wisdom Temple is a pavilion donated to the population of the city of Hof (Upper Franconia) in 1907. It is architecturally based on Greek antiquity and is located in the Hofer Stadtpark Theresienstein, east of Gumpertsreuther Weg in the so-called Weißmath-Anlage. The pavilion does not owe its name to wisdom in the spiritual sense, but to its donors, the brothers Carl, Jean (Hans) and Georg Wisdom.

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        de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WisheitTEMPLE

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