Dä kölsche Boor en Iser

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Lower part of the Dä kölsche Boor en Iser in the Cologne City Museum

Dä Kölsche Boor en Iser ( kölsch for: The Kölnischer Bauer in Eisen ) is Cologne's symbol of war and one of the artistically most ambitious nail pictures of the First World War . The boor was created for war nailing in the First World War and was erected in front of the Gürzenich on June 20, 1915 . Today it is in the Cologne City Museum .

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Poster by Franz Brantzky, printed by M. DuMont Schauberg in 1915 , 49 × 36 cm

The idea for the nail figure came from the Cologne entrepreneur Max von Guilleaume . The figure was designed by the professor - at the art (high) school Kölner Werkschulen - the sculptor Wolfgang Wallner , based on the model of the Cologne farmer . The dome under which the Boor was exhibited until January 1919 came from the Cologne architect Franz Brantzky , who also designed advertising posters for the fundraising campaign.

Nailing and whereabouts, meaning

After just one year, the Boor had raised the highest number of nail figures in Germany at 707,000 marks . Apparently 1.5 million marks had been collected by 1919 . On January 28, 1919, the figure was brought to the Gürzenich. Until the mid-1950s, the boor was in the house of the Rheinische Heimat. It has been housed in the city museum since 1984 and is part of the permanent exhibition.

In 1915 the popular Cologne singer Willi Ostermann wrote and composed the marching song Dä kölsche Boor en Iser . From February 20, 1916 to June 29, 1919, the weekly magazine Der Kölschen Boor appeared , in which the latest donation results were published. Among the hundreds of nail figures that were shod in Germany during the war, the boor held a prominent position. After or next to the Iron Hindenburg of Berlin, the Kölsche Boor is the symbol of war most frequently described in the national press during the First World War.

See also

literature

  • Der Kölschen Boor: Weekly publication of the "Kölschen Boor" in Eisen, 1916–1919 ( online )
  • Willi Ostermann : Dä kölsche Boor en Iser , Cologne (Verlag Kölsche Boor) 1915.
  • Gerhard Schneider : In iron time. War symbols in the First World War , Schwabach im Taunus 2013, p. 308ff. ISBN 978-3-94126413-7 .
  • Ders .: To mobilize the "home front": The nailing of so-called war symbols in the First World War , in: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , 95th year, 1999, pp. 32–62.
  • War landmark for nailing. 69 designs from a prize competition of the Deutscher Werkbund , Munich 1915.
  • Michael Diers: Nail men. Propaganda with ephemeral monuments in the First World War , in: Ders. (Ed.): Mo (nu) mente. Forms and functions of ephemeral monuments , Berlin 1993, pp. 113–35.

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