Fontenay monument
The Fontenay monument is a building in Hamburg-Rotherbaum . It is reminiscent of John Fontenay , a businessman, shipowner and ship broker who lived and worked in Hamburg between 1801 and 1835. The property has been a listed building since October 1962.
location
The memorial is on Fontenay Street, not far from the war memorial that commemorates those who died in the Franco-Prussian War .
description
The monument consists of a stele of sandstone , on which a relief is attached bronze with a portrait Fontenay. The stele has a base made of Obernkirchen sandstone on which a crater is attached.
history
The year of construction of the original monument is unknown. Pencil drawings made in 1878 show a stele that stands in the middle of elms and is significantly larger than today's building. Also Ebba Tesdorpf held this monument in 1895 firmly into a drawing. The memorial, like the war memorial, has been in its current location since 1926. The bronze plate with a portrait of Fontenay was attached to the stele around 1907. Old photos show a relief with Fontenay looking to the left. The record was stolen in 1945; the stele damaged during World War II . Ernst Hanssen renewed the relief and crater in 1962; the vase had to be restored again in 1970 due to corrosion . Hanssen now chose duralumin as a material.
In 2004 the monument was renovated again. The entire upper part including the vase was renewed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eimsbüttel List of Monuments List of monuments of the Eimsbüttel district, as of November 7, 2014
- ↑ Mathias Eberenz, Dieter Gartmann, Harald A. Kirsten: John Fontenay - Hamburg Shipbrokers and Kaufmann - Founder of the Foundation John Fontenay's Testament . Ed .: Foundation "John Fontenay's Testament". 1st edition. Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937843-24-7 , p. 79-80 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '53.3 " N , 9 ° 59' 54.7" E