History of a Monopteros

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This type of building is also known under the name Monopteros and it is a round building which has its origins in ancient Greece or Rome and consist of different columns and the term is derived from the Greek from the words monos for alone and pteron for wing. In ancient times it was often built and played and important place of worship and in ancient Greece you can find numerous traces of these buildings that emphasize the importance of this culture and during the Baroque period which started at the beginning of the 17th century, this type of temple became more and more popular with this construction method. Very related to this method of construction is also the well-known Tholos, which in antiquity often has the same meaning and also consists of a circular space, but unlike the Tholos, the Monopterus does not have a cella which means in the architecture the closed interior of a temple. Numerous well-known constructions have been based on ancient Greece and a Monopteros was also built in the Bavarian city of Munich in the English garden by the painter and architect Leo von Klenze (1784 - 1864) and the initiator was King Ludwig I (1768 - 1868) from the house of Wittelsbach and the construction began in 1832 and was honored to Karl Theodor and King Maximilian I.. Due to the model of the English garden, other parks were also designed and so Baron von Schacky (1849 - 1913) also oriented himself to the English garden in Munich and built a park with a Monopteros and also for many other architects and landowners the English garden was a great role model.

Also in the German city of Regensburg, a Monopteros was built in memory of the German scholar Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) and the building was built at the beginning of the 19th century and at that time there was an attack in Regensburg by French troops under the leadership of Napoleon in which this building remained largely undamaged. There are numerous other parks in other well-known cities such as Hamburg, Kassel, Carinthia, Vienna and many more can be found his Monopterus. Very well known in Greece at the Acropolis in Athens, there is a well-known Monoperus to admire which was built of marble in honor of the former Roman Emperor Augustus and it was built according to the Roman model and is also considered a personification of the city of Rome. Due to the admirable architecture, it is no wonder that it has become more and more popular during the Baroque and Classicism period and it is a great basis for visitors to parks or gardens to bring mythology a little closer. Often in modern times, some gods from Greek or Roman mythology were also used as a model during construction and it definitely brings the architecture from antiquity well to the present and in old writings, as already mentioned above, a Monopteros and a Tholos have been often equated and it was also mentioned by the well-known Greek author Homer in his well-known work Odyssey.

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