Gefion fountain (Eckernförde)

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The Gefion Fountain
The original of the figurehead in the Eckernförde town hall

The Gefion fountain in Eckernförde is a cultural monument in Eckernförde that is registered in the " Directory of registered cultural monuments of the State of Schleswig-Holstein (except Lübeck) ".

history

The fountain in the spa gardens of the city of Eckernförde, built in June 1936, commemorates the battle in Eckernförde on April 5, 1849 in the Schleswig-Holstein War . The figurehead of the SMS Gefion , who was involved in the battle on the Danish side, stands on a pedestal , depicting the Gefion of Germanic mythology with her four sons plowing the Danish island of Zealand out of the Swedish mainland.

In 1979 the original figurehead carved from oak wood, weighing around 650 kilograms, was restored in 4,000 hours of work and then a copy was made, which has replaced the original figure on the fountain since 1980 for conservation reasons. The “Original Gefion” can now be seen in the city's “New Town Hall”.

The Gefion itself was damaged in the battle, after the ship was abandoned by the Danish crew it was taken under the Prussian flag as SMS Eckernförde and repaired in Eckernförde. A Danish attempt to recapture the ship later failed.

The well water flows from two fish mouths to the right and left of the base. The "old" semicircular water basin in front of the monument evidently gave way to "modern" notions of a well water collection basin in the 2000s.

drafts

The design for the figurehead was created in 1842/43 on the " Orlogsværftet " in Copenhagen under the direction of Professor Johann Daniel Petersen.

The design of the Gefion fountain came from Arthur Götting (1898–1975). Götting was a high school teacher at the Jungmann School , an artist, a sculptor and an art teacher. He came from Preetz and designed the cover of the golden book of the city of Eckernförde and four notes of the Preetz emergency money from 1921. In Eckernförde he refused to part with his Jewish wife Klara (née Kaufmann) during the Nazi dictatorship and disappeared from one day to the next. He and his wife found shelter in his mother-in-law's apartment in Göttingen . Klara Götting escaped deportation to a concentration camp there because of her “Aryan” spouse. Arthur Götting later owned a sculptor's studio in Göttingen. In 2013 there was an exhibition about Arthur Götting in the Museum Eckernförde .

The well was created in 1936 by Hans Rheder.

Others

Not far from the Gefion fountain, the Süderschanzen monument commemorates the battle in Eckernförde.

swell

  • the reporter from November 10, 2010
  • Dietrich Daneke: Göttingen - history of a university town , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Volume 3, 1999, pages 732 ff.
  • Information board at the fountain
  • Jann-Markus Witt: Eckernförde - history of a port and naval city. Convent-Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-934613-96-9 , pages 36 ff.
  • Uta Schäfer-Richter, Jörg Klein: The Jewish citizens in the Göttingen district - a memorial book , Wallstein Verlag Göttingen, 1992, page 124
  • Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Eckernförde - a walk through the city's history . Publisher: Manfred Goos, Horn-Bad Meinberg, 2nd edition 2002, pages 74 to 82., page 416
  • Reinhold Werner: Memories and pictures from the sea life , 2nd edition, A. Hofmann & Comp. Berlin 1881, pages 177 ff.
  • Eckernförder Zeitung of October 9, 1979

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ see list of cultural monuments in Eckernförde
  2. ↑ Eckernförder Zeitung of October 9, 1979
  3. ↑ Information board at the fountain
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ↑ Schinkel, page 416
  6. ^ Museum Eckernförde : Arthur Götting (1899-1975), drawings, drafts: fragments of a work
  7. ^ [2] Eckernförder Zeitung from April 30, 2013

Coordinates: 54 ° 27 ′ 51.9 "  N , 9 ° 50 ′ 25.2"  E