Behnbrunnen

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Fountain figure

The Behn-Brunnen or Bürgermeister-Behn-Brunnen is an ornamental fountain on the corner of Behnstrasse and Königstrasse in Hamburg-Altona . It was built in 1890, but only the bronze fountain figure by the Altona artist Wilhelm Giesecke , which is a listed building, has survived from the original design .

history

Original shape

The fountain was built in 1890 by the Altona-Ottenser Beautification Association in honor of the Altona mayor Caspar Behn (1799-1853) and originally stood at the intersection of Goethestrasse and Allee (today's Max-Brauer-Allee). The appearance of the entire fountain was completely different than it is today: In a round basin stood a granite column that supported a shell basin, over which the bronze figure still preserved today stood. The fountain was destroyed in the Second World War , but the figure was preserved and was stored (according to the Hamburger Abendblatt on the occasion of the re-installation, first in the building yard and then "in the office of the Altona district office manager"). In 1963 it was re-erected at its current location on the edge of a green area created in 1958 in a much simpler fountain.

In the Altona Museum for Art and Cultural History there is a picture of the fountain in its former condition by Emil Puls from 1930.

description

The fountain figure shows a young woman, an oceanid . In her raised right hand she holds a model of a ship, in her left a branch with leaves. At their feet are fish that can spit water. It stands on a square concrete base in a hexagonal, flat, unadorned water basin.

literature

  • City district archive Ottensen, Stiftung Denkmalpflege Hamburg (ed.): The Stuhlmannbrunnen . Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-933374-72-3 , p. 66 f.

Web links

Commons : Behnbrunnen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Altona . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 1, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1905, pp.  393–394 .
  2. ^ A b Günther Grundmann (ed.), Renata Klée Gobert (edit.): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Volume II: Altona and Elbe suburbs. Wegner, Hamburg 1959, p. 128.
  3. ↑ Hamburg Cultural Authority: List of monuments according to § 6 Paragraph 1 Hamburg Monument Protection Act of April 5, 2013 (HmbGVBl p. 142), extract for the Altona district. Status: July 6, 2015, hamburg.de (PDF; 1.8 MB) accessed on October 26, 2015
  4. ^ Hanna Wildeboer: Public green spaces of the 50s and 60s . (PDF; 8.7 MB) Diploma thesis 2004/2005; Library Service Center Baden-Württemberg
  5. ↑ Volker Plagemann: Father city, fatherland, God protect you with a strong hand. Monuments in Hamburg . Also habilitation thesis, University of Aachen. Christians, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-7672-0967-5 , pp. 109-110 .
  6. ↑ Nice girl back outside . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . July 27, 1963 ( Abendblatt.de [accessed October 28, 2015]).
  7. ↑ Emil Puls: Behn-Brunnen . Photograph from April 1930; Museums Schleswig-Holstein & Hamburg

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 53 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 31 ″  E