Wien Kulturgut: Gedenktafeln · Vienna
Rigas Welestinus - Gedenktafel
Rotenturmstraße 21, Innere Stadt (1010), Vienna
The record
- Type
- Commemorative plaque (Gedenktafel)
- Material
- Stein (Marmor)
- Plaque made
- 1937
- Epoch
- Zwischenkriegszeit und 2. Weltkrieg
- Address
- Rotenturmstraße 21
- District
- Innere Stadt (1010)
- City
- Vienna (Wien)
- Country
- Austria
- Coordinates
- 48.21094, 16.37493
- Object number
- 96923
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1813 map "Sect. 161. Theil von Oestreich = Partie d'Autriche" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1813 · Sect. 161. Theil von Oestreich = Partie d'Autriche (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1837 · I, II, III, IV Sections. Umgebung von Wien. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1843 · (With directional lighting) Neuester Plan von Wien und Dessen 34 Vorstaedten in Relief. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1866 · Plan der Haupt-u. Residenz Stadt Wein mit der neuen Bezirkseintheilung, Strassenbenennung… (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1906 · Vienna (Wein) and its Environs. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The City of Vienna's record
Inschrift
Wer frei denkt denkt gut
Rigas Welestinus / 1757-1798 / Hier stand die Druckerei von Markides Puliu / wo Rigas Welestinus / im J. 1797 seine revolutio- / nären Werke zur Befreiung / der Griechen und der Balkan- / Völker drucken liess. /
1937, die Griechen von Wien
English translation
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Inscription
Who thinks freely thinks well
Rigas Welestinus / 1757-1798 / Here stood the printing house of Markides Puliu / where Rigas Welestinus / in 1797 had his revolutio- / nary works for liberation / of the Greeks and the Balkan- / peoples printed. /
1937, the Greeks of Vienna
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Other plaques in the City's record within about three miles of this one, by straight line.