How does this artwork elucidate its Background?
In the 15th century the St. Catherine's Chapel was built at the place where the current St.Jakob memorial stands, but it was demolished in 1805. The first monument to the Battle of St. Jacob at the Birs was designed by Marquard Wocher on a small hill at the fork in the road to St. Jakob and Münchenstein. The memorial was a neo-gothic 12 meter high tower sculptured out of red sandstone and had the coat of arms of the involved cantons depicted on its sides. It was inaugurated in 1824 and people would gather annually on the 26 August in memory of the battle. But the tower was in need of extensive maintaining and the city wanted to replace it with another memorial.
Münchenstein neo-gothic St. Catherine Marquard Wocher sandstone Birs