Joseph von Eichendorff

Joseph von Eichendorff - this outstanding poet of the Romantic era was born on March 10, 1788 in Łubowice near Racibórz. He graduated from the gymnasium of St. Maciej in Wrocław, together with his brother he studied, among others in Halle and Heidelberg. He took part in the war against Napoleon. He spent the last two years of his life in Nysa with his daughter Teresa. His seriously ill wife Luiza died in 1855 after moving from Berlin to Nysa. Joseph often traveled to Javornik to the court of the Bishop of Wrocław, Heinrich Förster. He died of pneumonia in 1857. He was buried next to his wife in the Jerusalem Cemetery. In 1888, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the inhabitants of Nysa founded a monument commemorating the poet, which was later hidden from the Red Army in 1945. A faithful copy of the monument returned to its place in 2002. The pedestal stands next to the poet's former house and close to his burial place.