Kissinger Strasse 131 (Reiterswiesen)

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villa
Cross tug

At the address Kissinger Straße 131 in Reiterswiesen , a district of Bad Kissingen , the major district town of the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen , there is a villa and a cruiser. Both belong to the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and are registered in the Bavarian list of monuments under the numbers D-6-72-114-391 (villa) and D-6-72-114-235 (Kreuzschlepper) .

history

villa

The Villa Josefine property with a half-hipped roof was built around 1905 or 1911. It was built by architect Fritz in Art Nouveau style. The country house style, a more modern variant of Art Nouveau, is expressed in the knee-high floor and the simple half-timbered configurations on the upper floor of the property, which are intended to represent rural values.

Cross tug

The approximately 4.5 meter high sandstone cross tug was built around 1900 by the Bad Kissingen sculptor Valentin Weidner . The figure stands on four 1.20 meter high columns designed in Romanesque style, bears the inscription “Follow me!” And is marked “V.” in the 1.10 meter high angular base block. Weidner sculp. ”Signed.

The Kreuzschlepper was originally in the vineyards on the southern slopes of the Botenlauben castle ruins . A granddaughter of the sculptor (daughter of Weidner's daughter Betty) presented a model of the Kreuzschlepper as a gift from the city of Bad Kissingen as part of the Valentin Weidner exhibition. The model was later given a place of honor by the fireplace in the meeting room in the Old Town Hall .

literature

  • Elisabeth Keller: The landmarks in the Bad Kissingen district , Volume 1, self-published by the Bad Kissingen district, 1978, p. 374f.
  • Werner Eberth : Valentin Weidner . In: "Kissinger Hefte", Volume 1, Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 1992, p. 55
  • Werner Eberth: Valentin and Hans Weidner (1848–1919), (1875–1953). Sculptors of Historicism in Franconia , additions to "Kissinger Heft" Volume 1, supplement to the exhibition: "The Bad Kissinger Sculptor Valentin Weidner" 1992, Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 1996, p. 41
  • 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. 154 .

Web links

Commons : Kissinger Straße 131  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 154 .
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Bad Kissingen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 '14.14 "  N , 10 ° 5' 9.46"  E