Friedrich Schiller Monument in Marbach
N 48° 56.125 E 009° 15.338
32U E 518721 N 5420307
Monument to German poet and playwrite Friedrich Schiller, Marbach's native son.
Waymark Code: WMBK8
Location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Date Posted: 04/30/2006
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Marbach is best known as the birthplace of Friedrich Schiller, although he didn't stay here very long. It's otherwise a picturesque walled city with many carefully restored half-timbered houses.
Born 1759. Died 1805. He was a contemporary of Goethe. Living during the period of the successful American Revolution and the partly successful French revolution, he was a critic of the Absolutist political thinking still held in Germany.
One of his most famous works was the dramatization of the story of the mythical William Tell, who, it is said, succeeded in bringing about an independent Switzerland. (Visitors of foreign nationality may be familiar with the part where William Tell shoots an arrow through an apple on the top of his son's head).
Schiller also wrote a poem "Ode to Joy" which Beethoven set to music in the final movement of his Ninth Symphony. BTW, the music from this movement is used as the official anthem of the European Union.
Another famous statue of Schiller is found in the city of Weimar, where Schiller spent a good deal of his productive life.
For more information on Marbach see http://www.schillerstadt-marbach.de