Description

Column Sweden – a twenty-meter tower, installed in the reserve Kuhkopf Knoblochsaue, city Riedstadt, Hesse. It was created in 1632 by order of the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus, when he crossed the Rhine with his army during the Thirty Years War. This event has become one of the greatest military achievements of the time.

For his work took an unknown sculptor Matthew Staund by its architectural column idea turned out pretty unusual. Writer and historian Ludwig Bechstein said that King was traveling with four companions on the Rhine, so on a high pedestal There are four ball, which established a pedestal obelisk. At the very top sits armed lion helmet, front paws he holds a sword.