Fountain in the courtyard of the Goethe House

Fountain in the courtyard of Goethe's house

There are two tube fountains in the area of the Goethe House and the Goethe National Museum connected to it. There is a fountain in the courtyard, in the carriage passage, of Goethe's house. This is inserted into the house wall like a niche, lined with tuff stones, similar to a grotto . It is likely to have served more practical purposes. The large cuboid fountain basin in it speaks for this. This fountain is connected to a tube ride . To increase the effect, it is framed by wild wine .

Temporary installation

In the courtyard of Goethe's house , better in the small inner courtyard of the Goethe National Museum , to which the house belongs, in the direction of the Ackerwand in Weimar, there was temporarily a fountain with a group of statuettes in patinated bronze. This is an original from the Baroque period, which was created in 1722. It was created by Johann Leonhard Bromig , a Nuremberg sculptor . Its original location was in the Belvedere Palace Park and is now back on Belvedere; Even if in the checkout area of the castle. It is in the holdings of the Weimar Classic Foundation under the signature KSW, Museen, Inv.-Nr. KPl / 01066 . Various fountains in Italy show this motif. The group of figures depicts Hercules fighting the Libyan giant Antaeus . Hercules emerges victorious because he succeeds in lifting his opponent, whom he then strangles. He leaves him up because the giant, as the son of the earth, always receives new strength when he is thrown to the ground. Hercules was supposed to bring Eurystheus the golden apples of the Hesperides , for which the fight with Antaeus was necessary.

The fountain of the Herkules-Antäus-Gruppe was connected to the tube drive from the Ackerwand in 1998, but was removed again in 2012. It is located on Belvedere. This group of figures was always used as an ornamental fountain in Weimar .

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Individual evidence

↑ Hans-Joachim Leithner: WeimarWissen: from well rooms, tube rides and water pipes, the historical and more recent wells in Weimar , Weimar 2018, p. 157 f.
↑ Hans-Joachim Leithner: WeimarWissen: from well rooms, tube rides and water pipes, the historical and younger fountains in Weimar , Weimar 2018, p. 173 or p. 296. Accordingly, first place of installation: Prinzengarten; second installation site: new orangery garden, in the middle of the pond rose basin.
↑ The group of statuettes is located in Belvedere Palace for conservation reasons.
↑ Joachim Berger : Hercules Vinariensis: Appropriations of a European Myth in the Early Modern Era , in: Europe in Weimar: Visions of a Continent , ed. by Hellmut Seemann (= yearbook of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar 2008), pp. 77–104, here p. 100 f.
↑ I received this information myself in the Goethe House on May 29, 2020 and was confirmed by the Weimar Classic Foundation. According to Leithner's description, the group of figures is still in the courtyard of the Goethe National Museum. He calls it, however, "during an action art", i. This means that the group of figures should only be placed there temporarily. Hans-Joachim Leithner: WeimarWissen: from well rooms, tube rides and water pipes, the historical and younger wells in Weimar , Weimar 2018, p. 173 f. However, there is no evidence that this group of figures came to Weimar under Carl August , as Leithner states.

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[1] Hans-Joachim Leithner: WeimarWissen: from well rooms, tube rides and water pipes, the historical and more recent wells in Weimar , Weimar 2018, p. 157 f.

[2] Hans-Joachim Leithner: WeimarWissen: from well rooms, tube rides and water pipes, the historical and younger fountains in Weimar , Weimar 2018, p. 173 or p. 296. Accordingly, first place of installation: Prinzengarten; second installation site: new orangery garden, in the middle of the pond rose basin.

[3] The group of statuettes is located in Belvedere Palace for conservation reasons.

[4] Joachim Berger : Hercules Vinariensis: Appropriations of a European Myth in the Early Modern Era , in: Europe in Weimar: Visions of a Continent , ed. by Hellmut Seemann (= yearbook of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar 2008), pp. 77–104, here p. 100 f.

[5] I received this information myself in the Goethe House on May 29, 2020 and was confirmed by the Weimar Classic Foundation. According to Leithner's description, the group of figures is still in the courtyard of the Goethe National Museum. He calls it, however, "during an action art", i. This means that the group of figures should only be placed there temporarily. Hans-Joachim Leithner: WeimarWissen: from well rooms, tube rides and water pipes, the historical and younger wells in Weimar , Weimar 2018, p. 173 f. However, there is no evidence that this group of figures came to Weimar under Carl August , as Leithner states.