Fleinertorbrunnen
The Fleinertorbrunnen is a listed fountain on Fleiner Straße in Heilbronn .
history
The name of the fountain is reminiscent of the medieval Fleiner Gate in the city of Heilbronn on the road to Flein . In 1589, the City Council of Heilbronn decided to build a well at Fleiner Tor , where the route of the Cäcilienbrunnenleitung that had just been built entered the city. The box of the well, which was completed in August 1589, was made of sandstone with an octagonal floor plan. A statue of St. George adorned his column, which the stonemason Adam Wagner had made. For an unknown reason, the city council commissioned a new statue of George to restore the fountain in 1591, which was made by the stonemason Jakob Müller . However, it was not placed on this, but on the port market fountain that has now been built . In 1601 the Fleinertorbrunnen was restored, a Fortuna statue - also made by Müller - was now placed on the fountain column above the gargoyles. The previously unadorned walls of the well box were decorated by the sculptor Johann Heller in 1713 during a well renovation with the city coat of arms and allegorical representations.
In the course of the renovation in 1860, the five damaged side walls of the well box were replaced with unadorned sandstone walls. The old Fortuna figure was taken from the pillar and placed in the garden of city doctor Adolf Schliz in Hohen Strasse . Instead, an allegorical statue of Heilbronnia by Albert Güldenstein crowned the fountain column. The almost 1.50 m high female figure in medieval clothing wore all the insignia of the old wine, port and imperial city of Heilbronn and thus symbolized the power and prosperity of the old imperial city: the belt stands for strength and fortification, the anchor for inland shipping and trade, the brow adorned with grapes for viticulture. The city's coat of arms adorned the figure's chest. This Heilbronnia , however, fell apart quickly because it was carved from inferior stone. In 1904 the fountain in Fleiner Strasse received a copy of Fortuna from 1601, made by the sculptor Karl Federlin from Ulm. In 1966 the fountain was moved a few meters and on this occasion largely renewed by the sculptor Kurt Rücker from Flein.
In the Heilbronn Lapidarium , in addition to historical components of the fountain column, both the headless remains of the Heilbronnia and the remains of an older Fortuna figure, which is also badly damaged and of which it is not known whether it is from 1712 or 1904, are kept.
Fleinertorbrunnen with Heilbronnia around 1890
Remains of Heilbronnia in the lapidarium
Today's Fortuna copy
Gargoyles at the Fleinertorbrunnen
See also
literature
- Fritz Heinß, Gerhard Lang, Willi Lutz, Georg Volz: The water supply of the city of Heilbronn. Historisches Museum Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1975 ( Heilbronner Museumhefte. H. 5)
- Julius Fekete , Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Heilbronn district . (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume I.5.). Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , pp. 90 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '22.5 " N , 9 ° 13' 8.7" E