Haihover Juffer
The Haihover Juffer is a bronze statue by the Aachen artist Bonifatius Stirnberg in Gerbergasse in Geilenkirchen . It represents a mixture of witch and Juffer that appears in a local legend. Your fingers spit water.
According to legend, she was the daughter of a farmer from the abandoned Haihof. She had secretly devoted herself to witch cults and black magic . On an Easter night when she paid homage to the devil with a wild dance , she drowned the worm in a sudden flood . Because of her sins , she cannot find rest. As a white woman with thin bony hands, according to legend, she tried to pull a hiker into the river. The Düren teacher and narrative researcher Heinrich Hoffmann (1848–1917) put the legend into writing.
Until 2003, there was a legal dispute as to whether the statue corresponds to a drawing by the Dutch artist Annegret Janssen-Stassen. The Cologne Regional Court and the Cologne Higher Regional Court decided against the plaintiff artist. At the Federal Court , the artist complained against the non-admission of the application unsuccessful.
Individual evidence
- ↑ aachener-zeitung.de: Haihover Straße - From black magic and a white lady , accessed on December 31, 2019
- ↑ aachener-zeitung.de: "Haihover Juffer" stays in place , accessed on December 31, 2019
- ↑ aachener-zeitung.de: Copyright litigation - Federal Court of Justice puts Haihover Juffer aside , accessed on December 31, 2019