File:Hermann Balk, Hoch- und Landmeister des Deutschen Ritterordens. Statue am Westportal der Weichselbrücke bei Thorn, modellirt von Otto Geyer..webp

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DescriptionHermann Balk, Hoch- und Landmeister des Deutschen Ritterordens. Statue am Westportal der Weichselbrücke bei Thorn, modellirt von Otto Geyer..webp	Deutsch: "Hermann Balk, Hoch- und Landmeister des Deutschen Ritterordens. Statue am Westportal der Weichselbrücke bei Thorn, modellirt von Otto Geyer." English: Drawing by an unknown artist of a statue of Hermann von Balk (also called Hermann Balk), the Teutonic Order's first Landmeister of Prussia, serving from 1230 until his death in 1239, by German sculptor Otto Geyer. The statue was installed in the 1870s at the "Westportal" of the railroad bridge in Thorn (de) over the Vistula, but was removed in the 1920s, after control of Thorn (under Polish control: Toruń) was transferred from Germany to Poland in the Treaty of Versailles.
Date	Drawing: by 25 May 1878 date QS:P,+1878-05-25T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1878-05-25T00:00:00Z/11 Statue completed: between 1875 and 25 May 1878 date QS:P,+1875-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1875-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1878-05-25T00:00:00Z/11 Source for start of date range: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Europa/8ytnAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA49&printsec=frontcover
Source	https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bsb11363680_00445/full/full/0/default.jpg Illustrirte Zeitung[1] (in German), volume 70 : Januar bis Juni, issue 1821, Leipzig: Verlag von J.J. Weber, 25 May 1878, ISSN 25092545, OCLC 761810660, published 1878, page 417 Note: page 417 (print); page 445 (digitized)
Author	Illustration: UnknownUnknown Statue: Otto Geyer  (1843–1914)     Alternative names Karl Ludwig Otto Geyer Description German sculptor Date of birth/death 8 January 1843  1914  Location of birth/death Charlottenburg Charlottenburg Authority file : Q1247914 VIAF: 35269110 ISNI: 0000000066765461 ULAN: 500090492 LCCN: nr2002039390 GND: 119555247 WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q1247914 Cropped and edited by: User:Andkore

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