Friedensbrunnen (Dresden)
The Friedensbrunnen or Türkenbrunnen is located in Dresden's old town , it is one of the oldest fountains in the city.
location
The fountain is on the Jüdenhof , west of the Neumarkt in front of the entrance to the Johanneum , in which the Dresden Transport Museum is located.
Appearance
The sandstone fountain consists of an octagonal fountain basin with a floor plan of 4.5 by 4.5 meters. The eight sides of the pool are decorated with three eight-pointed rosettes. The basin is surrounded by a granite path. The depth of the well is 1.4 meters.
In the middle of the pool there is an octagonal column with a square pedestal on which there is a mask that spouts water. The reverse of the column is decorated with oval, slightly arched reliefs with Latin inscriptions. The sculpture of the goddess of war Bellona stands on the pedestal .
At the back of the well basin there is an outlet pipe and underneath it a flat, round depression in the granite path for the water to drain.
history
Originally the fountain was on the east side of the Neumarkt. It consisted of a tube box that was initially made of wood and later made of stone.
Johann Friedrich Steger created the octagonal fountain trough in 1616. A Samson figure with a water-spouting lion was planned as the original fountain figure, but this was not carried out because the city council could not agree on an image and shied away from the costs.
After the end of the Thirty Years' War , Christoph Abraham Walther created a depiction of the goddess of peace Eirene for the fountain base in 1649/50 . After the victorious battle at Kahlenberg against the Turks, in which the Saxon Elector Johann Georg III. had participated, the statue of Eirene was replaced in 1683 by a new statue of the goddess of war Bellona by Conrad Max Süssner (erroneously called Victoria ). That is why the fountain was also called Johann-Georgen-Brunnen, Victoriabrunnen or Türkenbrunnen.
When the monument to the Saxon King Friedrich August II was erected on the Neumarkt in 1866 , the fountain was moved to its current location. In 1969, the sculptor Egmar Ponndorf restored the fountain, and a copy of the fountain sculpture was made.
See also
literature
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony . Issue 21–23: City of Dresden . In commission at CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden 1903, pp. 626–627 ( digitalisat SLUB Dresden ).
- Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 , p. 141
- Art in public space . Information brochure of the state capital Dresden, December 1996.
- Dehio manual : Saxony I. Administrative region Dresden . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , p. 193.
Remarks
- ↑ The name of the artist can not be found in Gurlitt, in the Stadtlexikon Dresden and in Dehio.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 5.8 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 23" E