Kaspar Hauser monument

Welcome to the Kaspar Hauser memorial

Friedrich Schelle took up an idea by the Ansbach sculptor Waldemar Fritsch and designed the bronze figures. Kaspar Hauser is depicted twice: the bent figure shows him as he might have appeared in Nuremberg on May 26, 1828, while the well-dressed, upright man conveys an image of how he was summoned to the Hofgarten by his murderer on December 14, 1833. A bronze plate, shaped like a sheet of paper, lies between the figures.

On it is a text by Friedrich Schiller:
THEY HAVE EVER SUCCESSED THE HARD FIGHT
WITH NATURE,
EVER SURRENDERED A GREAT ROYAL LIFE
DESTROYING DRAUGHT.
MAN IS MORE
THAN YOU THINK OF HIM,
HE WILL BREAK THE LONG SLUMBERING BAND
AND AGAIN DEMAND
HIS SACRED RIGHT

Source: Tourist Information Ansbach, CC-BY-SA 4.0