Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2013
Abstract
This paper elaborates on Jahns barrow that was erected in Cheb in 1913. At that time it was the biggest Jahns monument but in 1945 it was destroyed by the Czechoslowakian army because of its hostil symbols.
The idea to build the monument for the "Turnvater" Jahn came from the racist and all-German thinking German Gymnastic Club. Its main ideologist Franz Xaver Kießling enforced according to the clubs ideology to create the monument as a Germanic barrow.
His idea was evolved by an other ideologist with a great influence, Friedrich Rudolf Zenker, who projected for Cheb an monumental hill with many radical symbols. The relicts of the monument still exist and provoke reflections how to approach German monuments in the Czech space.