Köpferbrunnenanlage
The Köpferbrunnenanlage in the wooded Köpfertal in the east of Heilbronn is a listed historical ensemble. A chapel or hermitage with a fountain and a music pavilion form its core. In its current form, it was built by the Heilbronner Beautification Association in the last decades of the 19th century.
history
The Köpfertal probably got its name from the mountain heads between which the Köpferbach rises, not beheadings that took place there . But the place probably served as a place of execution for the robbery murderer Doderer in 1814, and according to legend, a Heilbronn junker named Veit Imlin was also beheaded there. The Köpferbach, later also called Pfühlbach , rises around 300 meters further south of the Köpferbrunnen in the coal blade, in which coal was mined unsuccessfully in 1780. One after the other, it feeds the Köpfer reservoir in the city forest , which was created in 1935 by the Reich Labor Service for the purpose of flood protection , the Trappensee and the Pfühlsee . Until 1524, the Mönchsee of the Heilbronn Carmelite Monastery also drew its water from it.
The Köpferquelle was once taken by Heilbronn Naturefriends , known as forest brothers . The first construction of a house at the source goes back to these forest brothers , but it fell down over time, so that the Beautification Association, founded in 1863, decided to restore the complex in 1877, began to collect money for this purpose and the complex later gradually expanded. The chapel or hermitage was remodeled in a neo-Gothic style in 1880 and decorated with the head of a hermit above the portal . The fountain in front of the hermitage is adorned with a verse by Virgil : Fortunatus unbekannt Deos qui novit agrestes (Happy is he who knows the gods in the woods and fields, Georgica II, 493 ). The nearby Kepplereiche honors the senior building officer Keppler, who headed the beautification association from 1902 to 1924. The complex's stone bridges date from 1898 and 1904. The complex also includes a music pavilion, an artificially created pond with another Latin inscription stone, and stone tables and benches. In a broader sense, the complex also includes the riverside path leading north to the Trappenseeschlösschen and the upper Köpfertal valley to the south.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Christhard Schrenk: 125 Years of Beautification Association . In: Schwaben und Franken (local history supplement of the Heilbronner Voice ) No. 3/1988
literature
- Rolf Rau: The Heilbronn city forest and its educational trail . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1970 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives . Volume 5)
- Julius Fekete , Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Heilbronn district . (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume I.5.). Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , pp. 111 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 14 ″ N , 9 ° 15 ′ 3 ″ E