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Kallendresser sculpture at the Alter Markt in Cologne
Figure by Elisabeth Wegener-Botz and label of herbal liqueur from the Heller brewery

The Kallendresser (a Cologne expression for someone who relieves himself in the rain gutter) has played a role as a figure in Cologne since the Middle Ages . It can be found, for example, on the consoles of the figures in the Cologne town hall tower , on which men are depicted, their bare buttocks stretching out towards the viewer.

There are two types of these figures, of which at least five were attached to the council tower in the Middle Ages (now there are only three), the "Kallendresser" and the "Kölner Spiegel": The Kallendresser are shown crouching in profile, the mirror turns to the viewer close your (extended) back and put your head between your legs. The three consoles are located below the sculptures by Konrad von Hochstaden , Gottfried Hagen and Katharina Henot . The most famous Kallendresser cannot be seen on the Council Tower, but as a sculpture on a house on Cologne's Alter Markt .

There is no consensus among traditional researchers about the meaning of these figures. Certainly, however, it is a character who gives real or self-appointed authorities their opinion in this way. The figure of the Kallendresser owes its survival after the war to Jupp Engels (1909–1991), an architect whose commitment to Cologne and to the customs of this city left many traces.

In 1956, Jupp Engels bought a plot of land on Alter Markt that was vacated by the war, where he built a new house, the design of which blended in very well with the older buildings that still existed, and received the Cologne Architecture Prize for it. In 1986 the building was placed under monument protection. Its builder gave it the medieval name of the former house "Em Hanen". A medieval archway was found during the excavations. Engels exchanged it with the owner of another house for the rights to the former stone figure of the Kallendressers. The artist Ewald Mataré designed his replica in green patinated copper sheet.

Jupp Engels, who died in 1991, also founded the Kallendresser Order, which he presided over as Master of the Order and "Oberkallendresser". Only people who have made a special contribution to maintaining Cologne's customs are accepted. In his spirit, the Cologne music group De Kallendresser , which has named itself after this figure, strives to maintain and preserve traditional Cologne songs.

In 2011, the Cologne artist Elisabeth Wegener-Botz designed another figure. Two casts of this were installed in a private house in Junkersdorf and in the entrance area of ​​the Cologne private brewery Heller in Roonstrasse. The Kallendresser was also the namesake for a herbal liqueur from the Heller brewery.

literature

  • Werner Schäfke : "Dä Kallendresser vum Aldermaat." - In: Le Musée sentimental de Cologne. Draft for a lexicon of relics and relics from two millennia KÖLN INCOGNITO. Catalog for the exhibition at the Kölnischer Kunstverein March 18 - April 29, 1979. Cologne: Kölnischer Kunstverein 1979, p. 100.
  • Felten: "Dat Kallemännche am Aldermaat." - In: Alt Köln 7 (1953), p. 16.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Schäfke, Dä Kallendresser vum Aldermaat in Le Musée sentimental de Cologne, p. 100
  2. ↑ http://adventureda.blogspot.de/2013/03/blog-post_10.html photos

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