Hygieia (Bad Kissingen)
The Hygieia is a garden sculpture created by the sculptor Michael Arnold in the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen . It belongs to the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered under the number D-6-72-114-310 in the Bavarian list of monuments .
history
The Hygieia was created in 1857 on behalf of the Bad Kissingen hotelier Adam Hailmann, who wanted to create a traffic-calmed zone by installing the sculpture in front of his Palais Hailmann estate , now the Collard House ; the performing artist was the sculptor Michael Arnold .
The solemn inauguration of the Hygieia took place on September 8, 1856. Since it was a private contract, there are no written documents about it; there is also no reporting in the local Saale newspaper . Instead, the Illustrirte Zeitung dedicated a detailed article in its No. 751 to the inauguration. The present bath commissioner (spa director) Friedrich Reinhard Karl Ludwig Graf von Luxburg handed over the sculpture to the state on behalf of Hailmann.
When King Maximilian II Joseph died in 1864 , Michael Arnold was commissioned to create the Maximilian II Joseph Monument , which was to be erected on the site of the Hygieia . For this reason, was Hygieia to a location in front of the later, 1910/1911 constructed Wandelhalle added. In this area, three possible locations were shortlisted; the final location decision was made by the government of Lower Franconia on July 26th, 1869. The entrance and counter hall of the foyer is located at one of the other two potential locations. At the time at this location in front of today's foyer, the Hygieia was damaged by the broken branch of a black walnut tree.
After the Second World War , the Hygieia was cleared away , as art of the 19th century was now frowned upon as “kitsch”. According to rumors, the base of the sculpture is said to have been buried near the Villa Neptun when the Franconian Saale was being filled. The figures themselves were first taken to the former spa nursery located on Bibrastrasse and later, in 1960, to a shed by the tennis hall.
In 1987, the Hygieia was set up by Hubertus Wehner, the then head of the spa nursery, in the new spa nursery in the Bad Kissingen district of Hausen . In 1991 Hygieia was entered in the list of monuments .
A year later, the Hygieia experienced another change of location, namely to its current location on the Bad Kissingen Lindesmühlpromenade in the Luitpoldpark on the banks of the Saale. The sculpture was purchased by the city of Bad Kissingen for the symbolic purchase price of DM 1 . In 1994, the damage to the sculpture was repaired with the help of the remaining fragments. On this occasion, the previously missing arms of the Hygieia, which hold a bowl in the air, were replaced. However, the city of Bad Kissingen decided not to restore the base, although experts believe that the Hygieia is designed to be viewed from below.
literature
- Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 52 f .
- Werner Eberth : Michael Arnold. A sculptor of the late classicism . Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2001
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Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ' N , 10 ° 5' E