Youth Fountain (Stuttgart)
The Jünglingsbrunnen is a fountain in the former workers' settlement Ostheim in Stuttgart-Ost . It was created in 1913 by the sculptor RW Schönfeld based on a design by Prof. Karl Donndorf (1870–1941).
history
The fountain is located in the heart of the Ostheim workers' housing estate, which was built from 1892 to 1903 on what was then Teckplatz (today Eduard-Pfeiffer-Platz). The settlement was built on behalf of the Stuttgart banker and social reformer Eduard Pfeiffer (1835–1921), who also had a memorial column and a fountain built on the ten-year anniversary of the completion of Ostheim in 1913.
symbolism
On the fountain for young men, a young man is leaning pensively against a pedestal, holding the full bowl of life in his hand. The youth is an allegory for (action) strength and future. Donndorf also used the motif of the bowl of life in the hand of a young man in other works - one year later in 1914 in a figure for the allegory of the joy of the fountain of fate in Stuttgart.
At the young man's feet are two water troughs, which are flanked by stone benches. The youth and the pedestal are made of marble , the actual fountain system with the benches are made of shell limestone .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Monument to the Ostheim Colony | Stuttgart in the picture. In: www.stuttgart.im-bild.org. Retrieved August 1, 2016 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ 11 " N , 9 ° 12 ′ 20.6" E