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Englischer Garten
(nr. Lerchenfeldstraße)

Rumford-Denkmal

Rumford Memorial

Sir Benjamin Thompson, [from 1792: Reichsgraf von Rumford]
North-Woburn (Mass., USA) 1753-Auteuil 1814
Anglo-American physicist and inventor
(Wikipedia)

Franz Jakob Schwanthaler
1796

Description

Monument in the shape of a classic temple , with on front a relief of two allegorical figures (women with mirror and cornucopia) and on the back a relief portrait.

Inscription(s)

front
lvstwandler steh!
dank stærket den genvss.
ein schoepferischer wink carl theodors
vom menschenfrevnde rvmford
mit geist gefvhl vnd lieb gefasst,
hat diese ehemals oede gegend
in das was dv nvn vm dich sihest,
veredelt.

back
ihm
der das schmaehelichste oeffentliche vbel
den miissiggang vnd bettel tilgte
der armvth hilf, erwerb vnd sitten
der vaterlaendischen jvgend
so manche bildvngsanstalt gab
lvstwandler geh!
vnd sinni nach ihm gleich zv sein
an geist vnd that
vnd vns
an dank.

Annotation

The English garden (Englischer Garten), to the north-east of the town, is 600 acres in extent, and was laid out by Count Rumford in imitation of an English park.

Sculptor

Franz Jakob Schwanthaler (Ried im Innkreis, Austria, 1760-München 1820), German sculptor, father of Ludwig von Schwanthaler (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Stad-Muenchen.net, München Lexikon.
Wikipedia, Liste Münchner Denkmäler.

Locatie (N 48°8'38" - E 11°35'20") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: deby030; Photograph: 4 September 2010
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