DescriptionHermann Balk, Hoch- und Landmeister des Deutschen Ritterordens. Statue am Westportal der Weichselbrücke bei Thorn, modellirt von Otto Geyer..webp
Deutsch: "Hermann Balk, Hoch- und Landmeister des Deutschen Ritterordens. Statue am Westportal der Weichselbrücke bei Thorn, modellirt von Otto Geyer."
English: Drawing by an unknown artist of a statue of Hermann von Balk (also called Hermann Balk), the Teutonic Order's first Landmeister of Prussia, serving from 1230 until his death in 1239, by German sculptor Otto Geyer. The statue was installed in the 1870s at the "Westportal" of the railroad bridge in Thorn (de) over the Vistula, but was removed in the 1920s, after control of Thorn (under Polish control: Toruń) was transferred from Germany to Poland in the Treaty of Versailles.
Date
Drawing: by 25 May 1878
date QS:P,+1878-05-25T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1878-05-25T00:00:00Z/11
Statue completed: between 1875 and 25 May 1878
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Illustrirte Zeitung[1] (in German), volume 70 : Januar bis Juni, issue 1821, Leipzig: Verlag von J.J. Weber, 25 May 1878, ISSN25092545, OCLC761810660, published 1878, page 417
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