Kepler Monument

Since the French Revolution, there had been great enthusiasm for monuments of every kind in Germany. Most of the projects for monuments to rulers, national monuments, and many others, remained purely notional, and were either never executed or only realised on a small scale. Typical of the late Enlightenment period are monuments to scholars and philosophers, where the classical motif of the monopteron was often chosen, as for example for the Kepler monument by Herigoyen in Regensburg.

The bust is by Friedrich D�ll (1750-1816), the relief by Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (1758-1841).