Bagpiper Fountain
With Dudelsackpfeifer well be in the Frankish former Reich city Nürnberg two wells designated whose bronze fountain figures each have a Dudelsackpfeifer has. One of them is on the Unschlittplatz in the southwest of the old town , the other is a wall fountain in Lammsgasse No. 14 in the northwest of the old town.
history
The fountain figure at Unschlittplatz goes back to a design by the Nuremberg artist Friedrich Wanderer , who designed it from a wooden model made of willow wood in the first half of the 16th century, which has been in the Germanic National Museum since 1880 . The local art foundry Lenz provided the casting of the figure . The fountain was originally built in 1880 at the intersection of Ebnersgasse and Heugäßchen. After the destruction of World War II , it was relocated to the Unschlittplatz with a new lower shell.
The fountain figure in Lammsgasse goes back to a model made of linden wood in the mid-16th century, which has been in the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin since 1881 . A first version of the fountain, in which the fountain figure was also created in the Lenz Art Foundry after 1870, was originally in the so-called Wittelsbacher Hof of the Germanic National Museum and was badly damaged there during World War II. In 1979, a replenishment commissioned by the friends of the Nuremberg Old Town was installed in the inner courtyard of Lammsgasse No. 14 together with a pool redesigned by the building director Julius Lincke.
The two wooden models are associated with Albrecht Dürer's 1514 copperplate The Bagpiper .
It is not clear to what extent there is a relationship to the wandering legend of the drunken and asleep bagpiper who is said to have been loaded onto a plague cart during an epidemic in Nuremberg in 1437 and who was only able to get out of his dire situation by blowing his bagpipes. In the middle of the 16th century, further fountains with the same subject were built in, among others, Bern and Basel.
See also
literature
- Frank Matthias Kammel : The Nuremberg bagpiper . Monthly gazette of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, January 2003.
- Brown, carbon: Nuremberg fountain . A-bis-Z Verlag, Erlangen 2006.
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 9.6 ″ N , 11 ° 4 ′ 20.3 ″ E