Kyffhäuser

Das KyffhA userdenkmal auch Barbarossadenkmal oder Kaiser Wilhelm Denkmal ist ein Kaiser Wilhelm Denkmal auf der Kuppe des KyffhA userberges am A stlichen Rand der ehemaligen Reichsburg Kyffhausen. Es liegt in der Gemarkung von Steinthaleben rund 12 Kilometer nA rdlich von Bad Frankenhausen in ThA ringen und wurde 1890 bis 1896 zu Ehren von Kaiser Wilhelm I. errichtet. Es ist nach dem VA lkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig und dem Kaiser Wilhelm Denkmal an der Porta Westfalica das drittgrA A te Denkmal Deutschlands. The KyffhA user is a range of hills located on the border of the German state of Thuringia with Saxony Anhalt. It stands on the southern edge of the Harz. The range has a length of 19 kilometres 12 mi and a width of 7 kilometres 4.3 mi . It reaches its highest point at the Kulpenberg 473.4 metres 1,553 ft , situated in Thuringia. The KyffhA user has significance in German traditional mythology as the resting place of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who drowned on June 10, 1190 in the GA ksu River near Silifke during the Third Crusade. The name KyffhA user probably stems from cuffese meaning head or peak. The settlement of Tilleda at the northern rim was already mentioned at the beginning of the 9th century in the Breviarium Lulli as Dullide, an estate of Hersfeld Abbey. A Kaiserpfalz at Tilleda is attested by the 972 marriage certificate of Empress Theophanu. A first castle on the hill above the settlement may have been erected by Emperor Henry IV during his conflict with the Saxons. His son Henry V inherited the quarrels and the castle was finally slighted by the Saxon Duke and later Emperor Lothair of Supplinburg in 1119. Lothair himself started the reconstruction in his later years and the Reichsburg Kyffhausen was completed under Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. According to legend, Barbarossa is not in fact dead, but sleeps in a hidden chamber underneath the KyffhA user hills, sitting at a stone table. His beard has supposedly grown so long over the centuries that it grew through the table. As in the similar legend of King Arthur, Barbarossa supposedly awaits his country s hour of greatest need, when he will emerge once again from under the hill. The presence of ravens circling the KyffhA user summit is said to be a sign of Barbarossa s continuing presence. Today, the hills are a tourist site featuring a restored medieval castle from the 11th century. Atop the mountain is the KyffhA user Monument, built in 1896, which depicts German Emperor William I and Frederick Barbarossa. The KyffhA user Monument German KyffhA userdenkmal , also known as the Barbarossa Monument Barbarossadenkmal or the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument Kaiser Wilhelm Denkmal , is a monument on the summit of the KyffhA user Mountain highest elevation 1,574 feet near Bad Frankenhausen in the state of Thuringia in central Germany. The monument, which totals 81 metres 267 feet tall, was built in 1890 96 to plans drawn by the German architect Bruno Schmitz 1858 1916 atop the ruins of the medieval Fortress of Kyffhausen. The monument was initially proposed by the 19th Century German War Veterans Federation, which under the name KyffhA user Federation took over its maintenance after 1900. Stylistically, the KyffhA user Monument recalls the castles and fortresses of the Hohenstaufen period in Germany in the 12th and 13th centuries. It was intended to suggest that the Prussia dominated German Empire founded in 1871 was the legitimate successor to the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, which existed from the 10th century until 1806. It also signifies the national theme of decline and rebirth. The monument features a 6.5 metre 22 foot tall sandstone figure of the medieval Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I von Hohenstaufen, better known as Barbarossa meaning The Red Bearded , who appears to just have awakened from sleep. Above him stands an 11 metre 36 foot tall bronze equestrian statue of Kaiser William I Wilhelm I. , the first emperor of the Second Reich, designed by Sculptor Emil Hundrieser 1846 1911 in the neo baroque style. This composition expresses the monument s theme That William I brought to fruition the unification of the German nation that had been so long desired since Barbarossa s time. Towering over the monument is a 57 metre 188 feet tower topped by a huge imperial crown. By climbing a 247 step stairway, one can reach the top of the tower and obtain an excellent panoramic view. An adjacent building features exhibits depicting the medieval Kyffhausen Fortress and the Legend of Barbarossa, which held that Frederick Barbarossa, who died during the Third Crusade, was sleeping under the KyffhA user Mountain and someday would awaken again to life when Germany needed his leadership. The KyffhA user Monument is the third largest monument in Germany, after the VA lkerschlachtdenkmal Battle of Nations monument in Leipzig, commemorating a pivotal 1813 victory in the war against Napoleon, and the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument at Porta Westfalica, both of which also were designed by Bruno Schmitz. 93243867 N00 has added KyffhA user at 2009 09 26 16 44 45 and tagged as thuringia

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