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itself. Behind the statue, the ground-level is raised to the height of the base. Steps next to the monument allow the visitor to climb up to roughly the same level as the bishop.
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gained great symbolic value. Already in the 1870s, therefore, there were plans for a monument. But it was only in 1885, in a
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