Caspar-David-Friedrich-Bildweg
The Caspar-David-Friedrich-Bildweg is an 18-kilometer circular route in Greifswald that leads to 15 viewpoints that inspired the painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) to do some of his works in his native town, or those with his life are in a special context.
History and structure
The Caspar David Friedrich Society presented the city with a concept for a circular route, which was implemented in 2007 and 2008. The Bildweg was inaugurated on December 10, 2008. It leads to a total of 15 spaces that Friedrich used as a template for his pictures or that have a special connection with his life. Some of the impressions that Friedrich received are still visible, but some of them are only partially recognizable due to the buildings over the past centuries.
The path begins at the house where he was born and leads across the old town along Grimmer Straße to the vicinity of the New Cemetery and from there along the towpath to the Eldena district and back to the old town. The entire route is around 18 kilometers long. A section with a length of 1.5 kilometers concerns points that are exclusively in the old town; Another partial route with a length of eight kilometers leads from the harbor to the ruins of the Eldena monastery .
Stations
The circular route begins in the old town of Greifswald at the painter's birthplace. His father, Adolph Gottlieb Friedrich , bought a piece of land at Langen Strasse 57 in 1765 and set up a soap and candle making factory there . Since June 2011 it has been the seat of the Caspar David Friedrich Center , which provides information about the artist's life. From there it goes south to St. Nikolai Cathedral , where Friedrich was baptized two days after his birth . His father married Friedrich's mother Sophie Dorothea Bechly as early as 1765 . The path leads west to the university . There the painter received drawing lessons from Johann Gottfried Quistorp from 1790 to 1794 . A few meters further you come to the St. Jacobi Church , whose choir Friedrich drew in 1815. This motif as well as the interior of the church appear in other paintings as well. From the sacred building you can walk in a north-westerly direction to the fifth station, Am Wall . 1818 Friedrich lingers in the gazebo one of his brothers and made a drawing, which he later in his painting gazebo running - a rather rare event of the painter. Via Karl-Marx-Platz and the tracks of the Stralsund – Berlin line , one arrives at the city's new cemetery along Grimmer Strasse . The painting Wiesen bei Greifswald was painted here in 1820/1822 . The well-known view of the Greifswald skyline is only partially understandable in the 21st century due to the development. From here the path leads back in a north-easterly direction, past the zoo to the street An der Bleiche . The painter made his impression from this vantage point in 1801 in the Am Ryck factory in Greifswald with a view of the mills in front of the Steinbecker Schanze . A few hundred meters further east you come to the Steinbeck Bridge , which spans the Ryck . It is part of a picture that Friedrich drew in 1815. After a few meters you reach the port of Greifswald, which the painter probably captured on a work entitled Ships in the Port of Greifswald before 1810 .
From this position the Bildweg leaves the old town and leads to the district of Eldena . The towpath leads to point 10 Auf dem Ryck , the view of which the painter captured in 1818 from the middle of the river. This vantage point is no longer immediately comprehensible today. Over the Wiecker bridge one reaches the district Wieck , where at its extreme eastern point a view of the Danish Wiek opens up, the southern part of the Greifswalder Bodden . Here is a lookout point Utkiek , which could probably have served as the location for his painting The Levels of Life from around 1835 . If you return to the district of Eldena, the Boddenweg leads to position 12, the already named Danish Wiek, which Friedrich sketched out in 1815. Further to the south-west is the Eldena monastery with its ruined monastery, which was depicted in various variations by Friedrich. The most famous work is the Abbey in the Eichwald from 1810.
The towpath takes you back to the last two stations of the Bildweg in the old town. Position 14, the market square, can be seen in Friedrich's work from 1818 The market square of Greifswald with the Friedrich family , on which the painter depicts his family, friends and acquaintances. In a southerly direction, the picture trail ends at the Pomeranian State Museum , which has been showing a large number of the artist's works in its picture gallery since 2000 .
Station 1: Signpost at the place of birth
Station 6: "Meadows near Greifswald"
Station 6: Outlook in 2014
Station 9: "Ships in the port of Greifswald"
Station 9: Outlook for 2014
Station 15: Pomeranian State Museum
literature
- University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald: In Friedrich's footsteps in Greifswald , Flyer, 2nd edition, without date
Web links
- Caspar-David-Friedrich-Bildweg - Website of the Caspar-David-Friedrich Society
Individual evidence
- ↑ Caspar-David-Friedrich-Bildweg ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the city of Greifswald, accessed on August 19, 2014.
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 45.6 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 37.4 ″ E