Exhaust column

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The exhaust column on the south side of the St. Johann church

The exhaust air column (also deaerating column ) is under preservation stationary component in the Lower Saxony city Osnabrück . It ventilates an underground toilet facility .

history

The Osnabrück bishop Dietmar founded the St. Johann monastery in 1011 , the early Gothic church of which was consecrated in 1292. The second Osnabrück settlement center, the Neustadt, developed around the monastery. The churchyard was south of the collegiate church. On the surface one was in the 19th century urinal made of sheet metal built, which was considered offensive in the 1920s. It was demolished and in 1929/1930 an underground toilet facility with access via stairs from the direction of Johannisstrasse was built. Initially, the parish planned to set up an advertising pillar on the now paved area south of the church in order to use it to ventilate the toilet system. The suggestion was rejected because the impression of the south facade of the church should not be disturbed by advertising posters on the advertising pillar.

The parish decided to erect a pillar that "encouraged the busy people passing by to linger and encourage them to reflect"; it should also show a sense of humor. The architect Theo Burlage (1894–1971) designed the column with a crown. The clay relief panels and the clay figures on the crown are the work of Wolfdietrich Stein (1900–1941). The panels on the shaft of the column show animals and everyday scenes such as a passenger car with a man underneath, a woman with a handbag and an open umbrella, or a man who threatens a boy standing on the other side of a fence with a raised hand. The plates also take up well-known proverbs such as “sweep in front of your own door” and “howl with the wolves”.

The crowning has double-barreled tapes with the inscription "Death eats all human children", does not ask what status and honor they are. Death does not ask for time, chokes old and young people ”. There are sculptures between the tapes . One represents death, all other young and old people who are torn from life by it.

In 1979/1980 the exhaust air column was partially restored; the work was carried out by the Osnabrück artist Ruth Landmann .

literature

  • Hermann Poppe-Marquard : The ventilation column In: Catholic church community St. Johann in Osnabrück (Ed.): St. Johann in Osnabrück . Osnabrück 1983, pp. 84-85

swell

  • City of Osnabrück, the Lord Mayor, Department of Culture, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche (Hrsg.): Art in public space . Osnabrück 2007, p. 79
  • Christian Kämmerer (arrangement): Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. 32 City of Osnabrück . Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1986, ISBN 3-528-06209-6 , p. 90.
  • Lower Saxony State Office - Institute for Monument Preservation: Directory of architectural monuments according to Section 4 (NDSchG), supplement on architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. 32 City of Osnabrück , as of July 15, 1986, p. 8

Web links

Commons : exhaust column  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the Katharinenkirche to the Neustadt , schultze-mit-tz.de
  2. ↑ Hermann Poppe-Marquard: The ventilation column , p. 85
  3. ↑ Poppe-Marquard describes the column as a ventilation column in 1983, as well as the German Historical Museum in Berlin; Monument preservation and newer literature call them the exhaust air column

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 '13.1 "  N , 8 ° 3' 6.1"  E