Sachsenross
Sachsenross stands in Hanover before the Welfenschloss, now part of the university, with its bronze horse visible from afar. Albert Wolff created the sculpture in 1866 for the then King of Hanover, who lost his reign and country that same year after the Austro-Prussian War.
The former royal residence later became a university building, while the sculpture moved to its present prominent position. Its raised front hooves show the careful balance required by a bronze horse standing on two legs, recalling the monument to Archduke Charles in Vienna’s Heldenplatz.
The Saxon Steed first appeared as a heraldic charge linked with Saxony in the late fourteenth century. It later became associated with the House of Welf and remains a symbol of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.
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