200 Years Blücher's Rhine Crossing 1813/14 at Kaub am Rhein
- From December 04, 2013
- From Dieter Weber
- In Latest news
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Commemoration of the town of Kaub and the municipality of Weisel
The fateful year of 1813 covered the whole of Europe with war, blood, countless deaths and a chaos that is hard to imagine for people today.
During the persecution of Napoleon after the Battle of Leipzig, our homeland also got into the whirlpool of history. In the course of Nov/Dec 1813 more and more soldiers entered Weisel and its surroundings. In the end there were about 50,000 men, 15,000 horses, 182 guns and the whole accompanying troop, the Silesian Army under its commander-in-chief Feldmarschall Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. In the woods around Weisel, Russian pioneers began building the bridge pontoons.
According to the will of the military, a bridge was to be built in Kaub in order to cross the Rhine by the shortest route, to pursue Napoleon and to place him definitively in his own country. This military enterprise is completely underestimated in its importance, but is of Europe-wide importance. A big event without thousands of deaths and injuries on the warfield, but a catastrophe for the people around Weisel and Kaub. Looting and imported diseases put an extreme strain on the population. Until today the events in Weisel and Kaub have not been forgotten and have burdened our homeland for years.
On New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, the people of Weisel and Kaub as well as Oberwesel and Bacharach commemorate this event 200 years ago. All citizens and guests are invited to the commemorations. On this occasion, the municipalities ask their citizens to light the distributed lights on 31.12.2013 from 16:00 and to place them in front of the windows.
The events in detail
| New Year's Eve, 31.12.2013 | |
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| preliminary program | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Expert guided tour through the Blüchermuseum with Ingrid Leonhard in the uniform of an 1813 volunteer hunter. |
| 1:30 p.m. | Klaus Hinner shows what a Landwehr man can do in his knapsack. with him. |
| memorial service | |
| 2:30 p.m. | Welcome on the church square by Dr. David Schiller. Introduction to the history of the Napoleonic Wars. Different Reenactor groups are introduced. |
| 15:00 o'clock | Common entry into the evangelical church. Lecture by Ute Graßmann, Focus on the plight of the population in Weisel and Kaub. |
| from 16:00 o'clock | They are used to commemorate the victims in Weisel, Kaub and at the left The banks of the Rhine from Oberwesel and Bacharach light more than 1000 candles. |
| 16:00 o'clock | On the market place in front of the evangelical church the attending Reenactor groups to work together with the population through the Metzgergasse to the Blücher monument. |
| - | Welcome by Mayor Lachmann. |
| - | OTL a.D. Rolf Papen explains in a speech the historical, symbolic meaning of the Rhine crossing in the course of the liberation wars. |
| - | Honour and laying of wreaths |
| 4:45 p.m. | If it goes together to the pilot place / thick avenue. Firecrackers. Then light projection of an imaginary bridge to the Palatinate. |
| subsequent | Afterwards, the Blüchermuseum opens its doors to the public. In the former headquarters of Blücher, the former inn of the city of Mannheim, everyone can follow in Blücher's footsteps exactly 200 years after the event. Mulled wine and sparkling wine are offered. |
| 24:00 hours | Peace vigil in the Blüchermuseum. |
| New Year, 01.01.2014 | |
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| 11.00 - 16.00 o'clock | The Blüchermuseum is open to visitors, guided tours on request. |
| 2:00 p.m. | At the Blücher memorial in Weisel: Remembrance of the victims in the population Address by local mayor Ottmar Kappus. |
| Food and drinks are offered. |
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