Industrial well

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The Industriebrunnen is a public fountain in Düsseldorf on Fürstenplatz . The fountain is a listed building .

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The industrial well (2011)

history

The fountain in front of the exhibition palace in Düsseldorf was unveiled on May 3, 1913.
The blacksmith volcano

1908-1925

In 1908, the Central Trade Association for Rhineland, Westphalia and neighboring districts based in Düsseldorf launched a competition for a fountain in front of the Düsseldorf Art Palace . As a "symbolization of the iron industry and mining" it was intended to commemorate the industrial and commercial exhibition held in 1902 on the site on the banks of the Rhine (then Kaiser Wilhelm Park , now Rheinpark ) . Among the 44 designs submitted, the jury , which was made up of the painter Fritz Roeber , the painter Georg Oeder , the architect Wilhelm Kreis and the Düsseldorf gardening director Walter von Engelhardt , was unable to award a 1st prize, i.e. it was unable to recommend a design for execution. It was initially planned to give the authors of the shortlisted drafts the opportunity to revise in a second stage of the competition (a closer competition ).

The fountain was finally built in its originally intended form in the years 1911 to 1913. While the Düsseldorf architect Gotthold Nestler designed the actual fountain, the sculptor Friedrich Coubillier created the three bronze figures "Blacksmith Vulkan ", "Bergmann" and "Ironworker". Miners and ironworkers are depicted in loincloths. The bronze casting of the figures took place in the Lauchhammer art foundry .

On the occasion of the opening of the Great Art Exhibition in 1913 , the industrial fountain in front of the former art palace was inaugurated. In 1925 the fountain there was dismantled because of the extensive new buildings on the courtyard .

From 1939

In 1939 the three sculptures were set up in a new facility on Fürstenplatz in Friedrichstadt . In 1942 the figures were supposed to be melted down as a metal donation by the German people for armament purposes and were removed. However, they remained intact and in 1950 they were re-established.

In 2005, the Schmäke art foundry in Düsseldorf replaced the rusted iron anchors with stainless steel elements.

Web links

Commons : Industriebrunnen (Düsseldorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
  2. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 54 (from July 8, 1908), p. 367.
  3. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 43, 1909, No. 6 (from January 20, 1909), p. 40.
  4. ^ Industrial fountain, sculptor: Frédéric Coubillier (figures) (1869–1953), architect: Gotthold Nestler (fountain system) (1887-1957), caster: Lauchhammer AG, processing , on d: kult

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 49.5 ″  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 7.9 ″  E