Dinglinger fountain
The Dinglingerbrunnen is a listed, baroque fountain in Dresden . It is considered the oldest preserved court fountain in the Saxon state capital. It is named after the court jeweler and goldsmith August the Strong , Johann Melchior Dinglinger , who had it made for himself.
Location
The Dinglingerbrunnen is located at the northern end of the west facade of the New Gewandhaus or the current Gewandhaushotel in the inner city of Dresden. It stands on a footpath and is attached directly to the outer wall of the building, where it frames a barred window.
description
The entire plant is made of Elbe sandstone . The fountain basin rests on a double-tailed, fish-like creature. A little above this basin, an open shell, flanked by two putti with horns of plenty , forms a smaller basin. There is a head embedded in the upright conch shell - Jochen Hänsch declares it to be the head of the Triton , Stefan Hertzig only writes of a “man's mask”. A portal-like frame rises around the fountain basin, also at its original location around a window, on each side of which there is a pilaster , from whose console a putti grows. Above there are volutes with dolphins. The keystone shows the head of Bacchus . Above is a double-open shell with a gold-plated pearl, framed by four putti.
history
The fountain, commissioned by Dinglinger after 1718, was originally located in the courtyard of the Dinglingerhaus, built in 1726, at Frauengasse 9 near Neumarkt (Quartier VI), where the court jeweler lived. The design probably came from Dinglinger himself. The fountain took up the entire width of the small courtyard.
When the air raids on Dresden destroyed the Neumarkt area in 1945 , only fragments of the Dinglinger fountain remained. The remains of the fountain were buried under a pile of rubble. Remnants of the courtyard fountain could, however, be recovered from 1946 after a conflict between the Dresden Monument Office and the owner of the property. The last remains were not secured until 1949. The sculptor Werner Hempel restored it, provided it with a few additions and attached it to the facade in 1966 when the Gewandhaus was rebuilt. The new production of the golden tongue and the crowning ball for the Dinglinger fountain were carried out by the sculptor and goldsmith Walter Flemming . Since the water pipes of the well were destroyed during the Elbe flood in 2002 , it remained dry until May 2008.
literature
- Stefan Hertzig : The Dresden Bürgerhaus in the time of August the Strong. Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2001.
- Jochen Hänsch: The recovery of the Dinglingerbrunnen . In: Saxon newspaper . June 9, 2008, p. 19 ( online ).
See also
Web links
- Pictures in the Deutsche Fotothek
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Jochen Hänsch: The rescue of the Dinglinger fountain . In: Saxon newspaper . June 9, 2008, p. 19 ( online ). Online ( Memento of the original from September 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.
- ^ A b Stefan Hertzig: The Dresden community center in the time of August the Strong. Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2001, p. 162.
- ^ Stefan Hertzig: The Dresden community center in the time of Augustus the Strong. Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2001, p. 160.
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 55.6 ″ N , 13 ° 44 ′ 30.4 ″ E