Aktenmännchenbrunnen

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The Aktenmännchenbrunnen was a tube well in Weimar .

description

The concrete fountain designed by senior building officer Karl Dittmar in the form of a large, round fountain basin and a four-edged ornate fountain column with two lateral water outlets with a bronze sculpture refers to the then Ministry of Finance. The bronze figure created by the sculptor Gottlieb Elster , who teaches at the Grand Ducal Art School in Weimar, bears the attributes of a mountain of files and a money bag. The figure that gave the former fountain its name was created in 1911. The stature and demeanor are supposed to represent a small civil servant, a loyal and troubled public servant of the princely finance ministry, and at the same time indicate his arduous lot, which is probably also the meager income in taxes and owed to his merit. The fountain was erected there in 1912 in connection with an extension to cover the increasing space requirements of the Ministry of Finance.

The motif of the Aktenmännchenbrunnens in Weimar was also used on postcards.

Locations

Between 1992 and 1997, the facades of the “Markt 15” building complex were repaired in several stages in accordance with the requirements of historical monuments. Until 1994, the Yellow Castle served as the seat of the Weimar city administration. That was also the original site.

After the Thuringian district reform on July 1, 1994 , the city administration of Weimar moved from the Yellow Castle to the Schwanseestrasse 17 building. The "Aktenmännchenbrunnen", which was extensively renovated from 1985 to 1989, was dismantled in 1998 due to the planned construction work in the inner courtyard of the Yellow Castle and should be in front of the new headquarters the city administration to find its new location. At least as far as the figure of the little file man is concerned, it ended up in the magazine of the Weimar City Museum . It has not yet been reinstalled either.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Leithner : From well rooms, tube rides and water pipes, the historical and younger fountains in Weimar , published by Hans-Joachim Leithner in 2018, Gutenberg Druckerei Weimar (WeimarWissen, Der Weimarer Brunnenschatz).
  • Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 8.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Leithner : Von Brunnenstuben, Rohrfahrten und Wasserlinien, the historical and younger fountains in Weimar , published by Hans-Joachim Leithner in 2018, Gutenberg Druckerei Weimar (WeimarWissen, Der Weimarer Brunnenschatz), p. 77 ff. Leithner has there certainly not wrong when he sees that this "work of art embodies for the citizens a document for the struggle for the struggle for social achievements since the end of the 19th century".
  2. ↑ The Aktenmännchenbrunnen on an old postcard.
  3. ↑ http://weimarer-brunnen.de/verschwundene/
  4. ↑ Hans-Joachim Leithner : From well rooms, tube rides and water pipes, the historical and younger wells in Weimar , published by Hans-Joachim Leithner in 2018, Gutenberg Druckerei Weimar (WeimarWissen, Der Weimarer Brunnenschatz), p. 77.
  5. ↑ Hans-Joachim Leithner : From well rooms, tube rides and water pipes, the historical and younger wells in Weimar , published by Hans-Joachim Leithner in 2018, Gutenberg Druckerei Weimar (WeimarWissen, Der Weimarer Brunnenschatz), p. 80.
  6. ↑ http://www.grupello.de/daten/C-137-Weimar-Q.pdf
  7. ↑ Here you can also find a detail of a drawing of the Aktenmännchen fountain from a drawing by Walter Steiner.