The fate of the memorial reflected that of the local spa and the original opulent marble balustrade was stolen and destroyed.
The following is inscribed in German on the memorial:
“In memory of these highly deserving German-Czech scholars, dedicated by their compatriots”
In a sense this sentence also reflects the overlapping of Czech-German culture in the 19th century. It is hard to write “Czech history” in North Bohemia without admitting that most of the figures in the history of this region spoke German.
The memorial is classed as a cultural monument and is still maintained, although the surrounding balustrades, sculptures and stairs are damaged.
In 2011 celebrations were held in honour of the jubilee 250th anniversary of the birth of F. A. Reuss and the 200th anniversary of the birth of his son, August Emanuel. Naturalists and historians came together to mark this occasion and reminisce about the lives of these men, which not only illustrate the Bohemian-German overlap, but also the development of how the Earth sciences were perceived. This legacy has been rediscovered and symbolically highlighted through the care of the Regional Museum in Teplice.
