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Klopstock Monument

Landkreis Harz

Klopstock Monument

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Klopstock Monument

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Location: Quedlinburg, Landkreis Harz, Harz Mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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Andrea

October 22, 2022

Karl Friedrich Schinkel designed the monument.
Christian Friedrich Tieck created the bronze portrait of the great poet.
A plaque in the pediment of the memorial quotes the final line of Klopstock's ode "My little forest" in a slightly modified form.
In 1778 the poet sent them as a thank you to the Counts Holck, who lived near Kiel, when they gave him their favorite place to stay, a little oak grove.

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Tobias Ballhausen

August 26, 2023

Unfortunately somewhat defaced by hobby artists.

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Korngiebel

December 8, 2018

Klopstock was born in 1724 in Quedlinburg. He grew up in a pietistic family. In 1745 he began his studies in Jena and wrote there the first three songs of the Messiah. After completing his studies in theology, he accepted a private tutoring position in Langensalza, during which time he composed his most beautiful odes for his unattainable love, Maria Sophia Schmidt. The odes sparked enthusiasm and are regarded as the birth of pure poetry. From 1759 to 1762 Klopstock lived in Quedlinburg, Brunswick and Halberstadt. In the period from 1769 to 1773 he wrote several dramas, including Hermann's battle and completed the Messiah. He died in 1803 at the age of 78 years. The Klopstockhaus is located in Quedlinburg am Schlossberg 12 and conveys as a biographical historical museum a sense of the life and work of the poet.

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Location: Quedlinburg, Landkreis Harz, Harz Mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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Klopstock Monument

1. Westturm (Teufelsmauer) – Königstein (Devil's Wall) loop from Thale Musestieg

2. Westturm (Teufelsmauer) – View of the Bode River loop from Quedlinburg

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