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Dying Lion Wall Monument, Lucerne Switzerland
Mark Twain on the Lion Monument: The Lion lies in his lair in the perpendicular face of a low cliff − for he is carved from the living rock of the cliff. His size is colossal, his attitude is noble. How head is bowed, the broken spear is sticking in his shoulder, his protecting paw rests upon the lilies of France. Vines hang down the cliff and wave in the wind, and a clear stream trickles from above and empties into a pond at the base, and in the smooth surface of the pond the lion is mirrored, among the water-lilies.
Around about are green trees and grass. The place is a sheltered, reposeful woodland nook, remote from noise and stir and confusion − and all this is fitting, for lions do die in such places, and not on granite pedestals in public squares fenced with fancy iron railings. The Lion of Lucerne would be impressive anywhere, but nowhere so impressive as where he is. ....Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 1880
The Latin inscription above the dying lion sculpture Helvetiorum fedei ac Virtuti means To the loyalty and bravery of the Swiss
Size of the Lion Monument --10m wide x 6m high
At 0:46s --surrounding view of the monument
History behind the Lion of Lucerne, Switzerland --
The Lion Monument - Facts, About and History
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rock relief in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and cut in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution, when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris.
Mark Twain praised the sculpture of a mortally-wounded lion as the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world.
From the early 17th century, a regiment of Swiss Guards had served as part of the Royal Household of France. On 6 October 1789, King Louis XVI had been forced to move with his family from the Palace of Versailles to the Tuileries Palace in Paris. In June 1791 he tried to flee to Montmédy near the frontier, where troops under royalist officers were concentrated. In the 1792 10th of August Insurrection, revolutionaries stormed the palace. Fighting broke out spontaneously after the Royal Family had been escorted from the Tuileries to take refuge with the Legislative Assembly. The Swiss Guards ran low on ammunition and were overwhelmed by superior numbers. A note written by the King half an hour after firing had commenced has survived, ordering the Swiss to retire and return to their barracks. Delivered in the middle of the fighting, this was only acted on after their position had become untenable.
Of the Swiss Guards defending the Tuileries, more than six hundred were killed during the fighting or massacred after surrender. An estimated two hundred more died in prison of their wounds or were killed during the September Massacres that followed. Apart from about a hundred Swiss who escaped from the Tuileries, the only survivors of the regiment were a 300 strong detachment which, with the King's authorization, had been sent to Normandy to escort grain convoys a few days before August 10. The Swiss officers were mostly amongst those massacred, although Major Karl Josef von Bachmann — in command at the Tuileries —was formally tried and guillotined in September, still wearing his red uniform coat. Two surviving Swiss officers achieved senior rank under Napoleon.
The initiative to create the monument was taken by Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen, an officer of the Guards who had been on leave in Lucerne at that time of the fight. He began collecting money in 1818. The monument was designed by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, and finally cut in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn, in a former sandstone quarry near Lucerne. Carved into the cliff face, the monument measures ten meters in length and six meters in height.
The monument is dedicated Helvetiorum Fidei ac Virtuti (To the loyalty and bravery of the Swiss). The dying lion is portrayed impaled by a spear, covering a shield bearing the fleur-de-lis of the French monarchy; beside him is another shield bearing the coat of arms of Switzerland. The inscription below the sculpture lists the names of the officers and gives the approximate numbers of soldiers who died (DCCLX = 760), and survived (CCCL = 350).
The monument is described by Thomas Carlyle in The French Revolution: A History. The pose of the lion was copied in 1894 by Thomas M. Brady (1849–1907) for his Lion of Atlanta in the Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Lion lies in his lair in the perpendicular face of a low cliff — for he is carved from the living rock of the cliff. His size is colossal; his attitude is noble. His head is bowed, the broken spear is sticking in his shoulder, his protecting paw rests upon the lilies of France. Vines hang down the cliff and wave in the wind, and a clear stream trickles from above and empties into a pond at the base, and in the smooth surface of the pond the lion is mirrored, among the water-lilies.
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The Lion Monument, or the Lion of Lucerne, is a sculpture in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution, when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris, France. Mark Twain praised the sculpture of a mortally-wounded lion as the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world.
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Swiss-German region in Lucerne, Switzerland - Lion Monument (dying lion)
Lion Monument,Lucerne city in Switzerland
The Lion Monument in Lucerne is a giant dying lioncarved out of a wall of sandstone rock above a pond at the east end of the medieval town. It was designed as a memorial for the mercenary soldiers from central Switzerland who lost their lives while serving the French king Louis XVI during the French Revolution.
When the revolutionary masses attacked the royal Tuileries castle in Paris on August 10, 1792 the Swiss mercenary troops tried to defend the royal family and make sure the royals could escape
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A very beautiful model of Swiss army knife at Lucerne Switzerland near dying lion monument!!!
lion monument Dying in Lucerne, Switzerland
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The Dying Lion of Lucerne Monument
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Why you should visit the Lion Monument in Lucerne, Switzerland! | Switzerland History
The lion monument in Lucerne, Switzerland, is an all-time favourite sight of this alpine Swiss city. This monument is magnificent, as it is carved into a huge rock that was shaped by glaciers back in the ice age. The craftsmanship that has gone into the lion monument is unheard of. However, most of the tourist that come to visit, come in groups and use it as a toilet stop. The guides usually talk about some highlights as to who made it and what it signifies. But let’s be honest, this doesn’t do justice at all.
The lion monument is in honour of Swiss legions that served the French king up until the French revolution. During the revolution, these legions where protecting the palace of the then reigning king, without him in it… They were overrun by the masses and were killed.
Now how is this important? Switzerland has been in service of other since forever. The foundation of Switzerland only came about, because they told their rulers that they have had their time. So this lion not only stand for the event it was built for but basically our entire history. And that’s powerful.
So when you visit the monument, why don’t you reflect about your country. What makes it the country that it is? What’s great, what’s not so much? Or your life even.
If you need some time, continue your reflection just outside the park at a cool Café/ Bar called Alpineum.
Cheers and to safe travels!
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Lion Monument - a short history of The Lion Monument - Mark's Travel Notes Lion of Lucerne Story -
Lion Monument - a short history of The Lion Monument - Mark's Travel Notes Lion of Lucerne Story -
The Lion Monument in Lucerne , the most sentimental of Swiss Monuments, commerates the Swiss mercenaries who, serving the French King Louis XVI, lost their lives during the French Revolution at the Tuileries Palace in Paris . Many were killed during the invasion of the Tuileries on the 10th August 1792 while others were guillotined on the 2nd and 3rd September 1792. The inscription above the Lion reads Helvetiorum fedei ac Virtuti which translates as To the loyalty and bravery of the Swiss. A fitting tribute.Carved into the cliff face, the monument measures a staggering 10 meters in length and and six meters in height. Captain Carl Pfyffer von Altishofen commissioned the Lion Monument which, in turn, was designed by the Danish classicist sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsenwhilst in Rome in 1819. Lucas Ahorn, a stone-mason from Constance in modern day Germany, carved the sculpture out of the limestone cliff face in 1820 and 1821.At the time of the French Revolution, Swiss Mercenaries, along with agriculture and town-crafts, were an important and gainful trade during the Ancien Regime as a whole with as many as 40,000 serving under foreign banners when the French Revolution started in 1789.The Monument was inaugurated on the 10th August 1821 and was purchased by the town of Lucerne in 1882.
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