Monument to the Göttingen Seven

The monument was built in 1998 based on a design by the artist Floriano Bodini. It commemorates and honors the seven Göttingen professors—Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Heinrich Ewald, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, and Wilhelm Weber—known as the “Göttingen Seven.” During the Hanoverian constitutional conflict at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover, these seven professors stood up for democracy. The monument is also a tribute to moral courage and a “commitment to civic virtues as the cornerstones of our community.”

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