The painstaking restoration of the Schacky Park to its original state is one chapter richer, and yet - a crowning capital is missing.
Dießen
- Capital is the name given to the upper, mostly three-dimensional end of a column.
In the Monopteros, the round marble bench around this column was put back up after extensive renovation.
The Schacky-Park support group is now trying to track down the original capital, which is over 100 years old.
While parts of the round bench such as the lion's feet and the column were found by chance in the spacious park area, the head piece has remained missing to this day.
Cultural historian Dr.
Thomas Raff and the chairman of the sponsoring association Christine Reichert can imagine that the capital “has been preserved as a decorative element in any garden in Dießen”.
So they hope for clues, but think about buying a copy at the same time.
The original may have been created in Italy around 1900.
Raff wrote a kind of profile: “The corner volutes are formed by dolphin tails.
They turn their heads to the four sides, where a classic ribbed fountain bowl rises from a flower stem.
A plant structure grows out of the shell and ends in a high oval flower.
Broad leaves curl up beneath the tails, with curled edges.
From this intertwined structure grows a round vessel with a perhaps metallic hood. ”Except for the missing capital of the round bench, the restoration of the Monopteros as the center and hub of the Schacky Park has now been completed.
Cast stone pillars and plinths were renovated, the roof was given a new copper covering and a pine nut.
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The capital can be seen in the historical photo.
© Dieter Roettig
Even without the capital, the historic round bench is a feast for the eyes.
It is thanks to two art lovers that it was able to be put back in its original place.
On the one hand Helga Preller, who made the restoration possible with a donation.
On the other hand, the sculptor and stonemason Joachim Maria Hoppe from Thaining, who formed the missing seats from Carrara marble and put all the pieces back together like a puzzle.
"The biggest problem was to find the same color for the seats as the rest of the parts," Hoppe sums up.
He spent around 160 working hours on the general overhaul: "I deliberately left a few breakages and flaws so that you can see and appreciate the age."
The support group was so impressed by Hoppe's work and specialist knowledge that he is now also a board member for monument preservation and restoration.
His predecessor Dr.
Dietrich Klemm had given up his position due to reasons of age.
Joachim Maria Hoppe comes from Pforzheim, did an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor and attended, among other things, the Bern School of Applied Arts and the Munich Art Academy with a diploma.
Since 1985 he has been working as a freelance sculptor for private, public and church clients.
Dieter Roettig
