Documents: 16 written responses from the Interior Ministry to queries regarding the publication of appeals for donations (1895) / circa 80 negative responses from German cities, communities and counties regarding the “attempt by the German Patriotic League to establish a monument to the Battle of Leipzig“ (18. March 1896) / 16 responses from the supervisory school authorities / Ministry of Education and the Arts regarding a “penny collecting“ fundraising campaign in schools for the 100th anniversary of the birth Kaiser Wilhelm I (1897) / a bound file with correspondence with the Prussian Interior Ministry in Sachsen regarding the “Geldlotterie“ (1901-1903) / “Discussions regarding the construction of the monument to the Battle of Leipzig“ (22 handwritten pages) / correspondence with the Patriotic League dating from between 1922 and 1938.

Plans: Layout plans of the entire construction site / sketches, view, extract from the construction site / cuppola: extract and details, 1:50, June 1908 / “Grundriß“ (plan view) (crypt), 1:50 / “Rampentreppen“ (platform stairs), 1:20 and 1:50 / “Unterer Hallenumgang“ (lower hall exchange), 1:100, July 1903 / “Reliefwand“ (relief wall), 1:50 / “Kuppelgewölbe“ (cuppola vault), 1:50, January 1909 / “Abgeänderte Krypta“ (amended crypt), 1:10, July 1908 / “Metallfenster“ (metal window), 1:1, March 1910 / extract, 1:10 / “Schriftdetail 18. Oktober 1913“ (detail document 18 October 1913), 1:1, March 1909 / letter, scroll, 1:1 / “Schriftband“ (scroll): Gott mit uns, 1:20, August 1905 / 2 sketches for masks / “Kuppel“ (cupola), 1:33 / “Skizze“ (sketch) staircase, 1:50 / “Abdeckung der Freitreppe“ (staircase covering), 1:20, March 1904 / Plan view, 1:100, June 1898 (signed Bruno Schmitz) / “Treppen Bureau“ (staircase office), 1:50 / “Treppen...1 links, 1 rechts“ (staircase... 1 left, 1 right), February 1910 and further plan / “Stützmauern“ (supporting walls), sheets 1-3, 1:100, April 1899 / Eingangstüren zur Krypta“ (entry doors to the crypt), 1:1 / “Türen in der Krypta“ (doors in the crypt), 1:1, November 1909 / “Eingangstüren zur Krypta und Halle“ (entry doors to the crypt and the hall), November 1912 / 4 door designs / “Krypta in Hallenturm“ (crypt in the hall tower) (6 door designs), 1:20 / door designs / “Freitreppe Detail Nat. Größe“ (staircase detail, original size), 1:50, February 1904 / “Treppe“ (stairs), 1:20, April 1904 / extract of the cuppola / “Ablauf der obersten Bauschicht“ (course of the uppermost building level), 1:1, October 1906 / “Detail im Masswerk des Rundbogenfensters“ (detail, tracery of the round arched window), 1:1 / extract from the cupola dome, 1:50 / “Schnittecken üpber Hallenboden“ (designs, hall floor), 1:20, June 1907 / Plans regarding the building concession, 1:100, June 1898: plan view, extract with drawn additions / “Drahtseilbahn zum Transport von Kies.... Zur Erbauung des Völkerschlachtdenkmals“ (cable car for transportation from Kies ...for the edification of the memorial to the Battle of Leipzig), 1:2000 / 5 plans for the floor of the crypt, 1:50, 1:100, November 1912 / “Detail der Abdeckung“ (covering details), 1:1 / door details, 1:1 / Plans for the granite stones with extracts, plans and views: Fig.I, sheets 1-12, 1:10, November 1910; Fig.II, sheets 1, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 1:10, October 1910; Fig.III, sheets 1-11, 1:10, November / October 1910 / Clemens Tieme: “Obergeschoss Oehme u. Baier“ (upper level, Oehme and Baier), May 1905.

By 1949, with the league’s dissolution, additional documentary materials relating to it were abandoned; in 1987 a large quantity went to the Sächsische Staatsarchiv Leipzig (archive signature 21773); further materials from the archive are today in the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Leipzig.

We would like to thank Dr. Thekla Kluttig, Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Leipzig, für wertvolle Hinweise.

1898-1949 German Patriotic League, Leipzig / possibly Jost's Kunst & Alterthumsgeschäft, Leipzig (Grimmaischer Steinweg 10) / Collection Ernst Baumgarten (1886-1976) / Private collection, Westfalen