Holy Well

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The listed edging from the 18th century of Heiligers Brunnen , a healing spring in the Eilenriede

Heiligers Brunnen (also: Heiligers-Brunnen ) in Hanover is a listed facility of a sulfur-containing spring . Today, the water emerges from a pipe between stones as a small spring at the height of a footpath and feeds, among other things, the nearby historical Kopperloch natural pool . The site of the monument , named after the Hanoverian mayor Ernst Anton Heiliger and erected in the 18th century, is the Brunnenstieg forest path in the Eilenriede in the Kleefeld district .

history

The tradition has it that during a summer stroll by the mayor Holy Pferdeturm to Kirchröder tower were offered by forestry workers a drink from the source. After the tasting, Heiliger is said to have informed his family doctor, the then famous personal physician Johann Georg Zimmermann , who in turn informed the court botanist Friedrich Ehrhart of the discovery.

In any case , Erhard, who found the salt springs of Badenstedt or the sulfur spring of Limmer in addition to other mineral springs, also analyzed and described the Born found in the Eilenriede . He wrote: “The spring is very rich in water and jumps out of the earth with force. The water is extremely clear, cold and extremely pleasant to drink. Its components are a little iron dissolved in gas, along with some lime and table salt. ”At the instigation of Mayor Ernst Anton Heiliger , the spring was then placed in a square sandstone basin, which was provided with Latin inscriptions on three sides . Ehrhart had assumed that the spring could be used as a spa, which did not happen; At the beginning of the 20th century the spring was almost dry. In 1953, an inscription in German was added to the fourth side of the stone border , which translates the three Latin sayings together:

"Come / see / drink / deity lives in the fountain / O guest worship the spring / drinking from it drew the liquid saint once 1794."

According to the memories of the Hanoverian factory owner and art collector Bernhard Hausmann , Heiliger's fountain was “a popular destination for the Hanoverians strolling around ”, especially in the first half of the 19th century .

In 1963 the flattened pyramid roof over the fountain was completely renewed, and in 2007 the fountain basin was restored.

See also

literature

  • Arnold Nöldeke : Heiliger's well. In: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. Bd. 1, H. 2, Part 1: Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover. Self-published by the Provinzialverwaltung, Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hannover 1932, p. 739 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ; reprint: Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ).
  • Rainer Ertel , Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: Healing wells. In: Hannoversches Brunnenbuch. Fountains and fountains in Hanover. Exemplary and documentary. Torch bearer, Hanover 1988, ISBN 3-7716-1497-X , p. 58ff.
  • Rainer Ertel: Heiliger's well. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 279f ( digitized from Google books ).
  • Silke Beck, Klaus Helmer (Red.): City forests in Hanover. The Eilenriede , with texts by Gerhard Dirscherl, Gerd Garnatz, Gudrun Seth and Carl Ferdinand Ernst, ed. from the state capital Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Forests, Landscape Areas and Nature Conservation, Hanover: January 2016, p. 32 f .; downloadable as a PDF document .
  • Silke Beck (Red.): Eilenriedekarte , with texts by Carl-Ferdinand Ernst and Gerd Garnatz, City of Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Hanover: September 2012; downloadable as a PDF document.

Web links

Commons : Heiligers Brunnen (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gerd Weiß: Kleefeld. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 2, Vol. 10.2. Edited by Hans-Herbert Möller, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 78f .; as well as Kleefeld in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 17ff.
  2. ↑ a b c Rainer Ertel, Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: Healing wells (see literature).
  3. ↑ a b Silke Beck, Klaus Helmer (Red.): Stadtwälder in Hannover ... (see literature).
  4. ↑ Compare the location map 4/26 Kleefeld. In: Gerd Weiß: Kleefeld. In: Monument topography ... , p. 43.
  5. ↑ Dirk Böttcher : Ehrhardt, Jacob Friedrich. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 106 and others; online through google books .
  6. ↑ a b Ehrhart as the discoverer of salt and sulfur springs. In: Ferdinand Alpers (Ed.): Friedrich Ehrhart. Messages from his life and his writings. Using previously unpublished documents as well as letters from Ehrhart and his widow (= separate publications of the Verein für Naturkunde an der Unterweser. Vol. 2). Engelmann, Leipzig 1905, pp. 110–115, here p. 112.
  7. ↑ a b c d Rainer Ertel: Heiligers Brunnen (see literature).
  8. ^ Bernhard Hausmann: Memories from the eighty-year life of a Hanoverian citizen. Hahn, Hannover 1873, p. 22; Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '0.3 "  N , 9 ° 48' 3.9"  E