Remigius Fresenius Monument
At the entrance to the Dambachtal complex, which was laid out in 1898/99, a memorial commemorates the Wiesbaden chemist Prof. Carl Remigius Fresenius. In 1848, Fresenius founded the Fresenius Chemical Laboratory in Wiesbaden, which soon became known far beyond the borders of Wiesbaden, both at home and abroad. A few years after his death, former students commissioned the monument from the Berlin sculptor Karl Reinert and it was unveiled in 1904.
The white marble bust of the chemist stands on a stele framed by two waist-high elements similar to a balustrade in a semicircle. These are decorated with two heads at their ends. Below the bust, the stele shows a relief of a young woman holding a glass jar and a pair of scales in her hands; above this is the inscription "Remigius Fresenius".
Literature
Buchholz, Kurt: Wiesbadener Denkmäler, Wiesbaden 2004 [p. 73 ff.]
Sigrid Russ, editor, Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Cultural monuments in Hesse. Wiesbaden II - The villa areas. Edited by: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, 2nd revised edition, Stuttgart 1996 [p. 256].