Bellona (Kolbe)

Bellona figure group by Georg Kolbe in the casino garden

Bellona is a statue of bronze , which from 1914 to 1922 by the sculptor Georg Kolbe was designed and implemented.

history

Elberfeld fountain on the station forecourt, between 1933 and 1943. In the column of the houses in the background you can see the Köbo house with the Döppersberg suspension station .

Close up view of the still image

Different view, photo taken between 1922 and 1943. In the background, you can see the home of the railway director's house on Döppersberg.

The bronze double figure was designed in 1914–1917 by the sculptor Georg Kolbe . Bellona , the goddess of war of the Roman religion , offers the sword to an awakening warrior in the statue. The bronze figure was set up in September 1922 as part of a fountain with a round basin and a flat limestone bowl in a small green area in front of the home of the President of the Elberfeld Railway Directorate . The villa with the address Döppersberg 35 and 35A existed on the eastern side of the station forecourt until it was destroyed by the air raids on Elberfeld in 1943 .

The Kolbes ensemble was called Elberfelder Brunnen ; his design had emerged as the winner of a competition for a planned well. However, the size, shape and iconography of the fountain changed several times. Due to the war and the economy, casting and installation were delayed until 1922. The total cost was 47,000 marks.

In 1949 the bowl and sculpture were moved to their current location on the lawn of the casino garden , but the bowl was later removed in favor of a cubic base.

See also

• List of wells in Wuppertal

literature

• Christof Belmann: Adolf von Hildebrand and modern sculpture between 1900 and 1925 . Master's thesis, Ruhr University, Bochum 2015, p. 63ff.
• Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal (main volume) . Born, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-87093-057-8 , p. 220.
• Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg: Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal (biographies of the participating artists) . Born, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-87093-058-6 , p. 83.

Web links

Commons : Bellona (Kolbe)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jan Niko Kirschbaum: Georg Kolbe's fountain and sculpture “Bellona” In: denkmal-wuppertal.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 26.7 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 27.1 ″  E