Building sculpture on bridges in Munich

Equestrian statue of Otto I on the Wittelsbacher Bridge

Personification of Swabia on the Luitpold Bridge

This page gives an overview of building sculptures on bridges in Munich , i.e. of works of art of sculpture that were created as figurative decorations during the construction of the bridges. Since six of the large Isar bridges were built between 1901 and 1905 as part of a large bridge building program, their sculptures are similar in style and design.

Works of art

• Wittelsbacherbrücke (south side)
  • Equestrian statue of Otto I (1117–1183, Duke of Bavaria 1180–1183), 1905 by Georg Wrba
• Ludwigsbrücke , on the bridgeheads, allegorical seated figures from 1894/95
  • “Rafting”, by Hugo Kaufmann
  • "Industry", by Syrius Eberle
  • "Fischerei", by Hermann Hahn (destroyed)
  • "Art", by Hugo Kaufmann (replaced by Elmar Dietz in 1979 after destruction )
• Praterwehr Bridge
  • Figure of the bridge saint Johannes Nepomuk , 1857, sculptor unknown, restored in 1974 by Willi Hohl
• Maximiliansbrücke (north side)
  • Figure of Pallas Athene , 1906 by Franz Drexler
• Luitpold Bridge, reclining sculptures (symbols of the tribal areas of Bavaria), 1901
  • Jäger (for old Bavaria), by Hermann Hahn, renewed in 1954 by Joseph Wackerle
  • Woman with grapes (for the Palatinate), by August Drumm
  • Fischer (for Franconia ), by Balthasar Schmitt
  • Woman with shield (for Swabia), by Erwin Kurz
• Max-Joseph-Brücke , reclining sculptures (symbols of the four elements), surrounded by reliefs related to the respective element, 1901 by the sculptors Heinrich Düll , Georg Pezold , Max Heilmaier and Eugen Mayer-Fassold
  • earth
  • water
  • air
  • Fire

literature

• Christine Rädlinger : History of the Munich bridges . Ed .: City of Munich, Construction Department. Verlag Franz Schiermeier, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811425-2-5 .