The Geibel Monument

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The Geibel Monument

Der 1815 in Lübeck geborene Lyriker Franz Emanuel August Geibel thront tief in seine Gedanken versunken nahe dem Heiligen-Geist-Hospital. Dem Ehrenbürger Lübecks und Stadtdichter wurde 1889 und damit bereits fünf Jahre nach seinem Tod dieses Denkmal errichtet. Damals stand es jedoch nicht an der Königstraße, sondern war Teil des Geibelplatzes, den wir heute als Koberg kennen. Die Statue musste 1936 im Zuge einer Umgestaltung des Platzes weichen, dieser erhielt mit „Koberg“ seinen alten Namen zurück.

There is no longer a Geibelplatz or a Geibel-Straße that was originally planned, but the comprehensive school of the same name on Lübeck's old town island, along with its stone likeness, commemorates the poet who was extremely popular during his lifetime.

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Barbara Schwartz

Do you ever get that feeling? You walk past an inscription, a sculpture, or a plaque and you just have to stop and find out what it's all about? That's how it is for me. ALWAYS! "One only sees what one already knows and understands." I couldn't agree more with Goethe on that point. That's precisely why I never want to stop discovering the seemingly insignificant, recognizing connections, learning new things, and getting to the bottom of people and their stories. Okay, and writing overly long sentences... And learning new languages, of course...

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