Author: unknown
Date: 1631, frame – 1910.
Sizes:
Material: bronze, stone
Technique: stone hammer, bronze casting
Restoration: The memorial plaque was restored in 1910. The stone frame was made by the sculptor August Folz (Volz, 1851–1926) according to Wilhelm Neumann (Neumann, 1849–1919).
Commemorative plate of Swedish colonel Anders Linderson (Linderson, ?–1605)
A.Linderson fell in the battle near Salaspils against the Poles on September 17, 1605. It is said that he asked King Charles IX to give the soldiers tired from the hike a short rest, to which the king angrily shouted at him that he had eaten that handful of Poles for breakfast. Linderson’s response is said to have been ” God grant that the first bullet hits my heart”.
The Swedes lost the battle. Only thanks to the help of the fearless Livonian Caspar Heinrich Wrede, the king was not captured.
A smaller plate inscription says that Lindersons was buried in Riga Cathedral on September 23 1605. Johan Skite, Governor General of Livonia, Karelia and Ingermanland, tutor of Gustavus Adolphus, ordered to put up this memorial plaque in 1631
Anders Linderson was the uncle of the later famous general Lennart Thorstenson, who was the servant of King Gustavus Adolphus during the capture of Riga (See the stained-glass window of the northern nave “Welcoming the King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus II in Riga on September 25, 1621”)