Small market (Kleve)
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 Small market with Schwanenburg in the background |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Kleve |
| District | Old town |
| Confluent streets | Propsteistraße, Goldstraße, Nassauerstraße, Kirchstraße |
| Buildings | Fools fountain by Anette Mürdter, ex. Equestrian statue of the Great Elector , Kleve Collegiate Church with "dead warrior" by Ewald Mataré |
| use | |
| User groups | Foot traffic ; Car / bicycle traffic on the west, south and east sides |
| Space design | Pedestrian area, side lanes, parking lot |
The small market is one of the places in the Klever downtown, north of the Collegiate Church located. It has a triangular floor plan, where at the northern end the Kirchstrasse, to the west the Propsteistrasse and to the east the Nassauerstrasse and the Goldstrasse converge. The square slopes down towards Kirchstrasse and to the south it borders the forecourt, which is higher up towards the collegiate church.
On this higher forecourt in front of the collegiate church is the sculpture of the "Dead Warrior" by Ewald Mataré .
The Lohengrin monument was erected on the Kleiner Markt in 1881 and moved to Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz in 1908/9 because it had to make room for the Hohenzollern monument with an equestrian statue of the Great Elector .
In 1909 Kaiser Wilhelm II unveiled this monument. It is now on Schlossstrasse, in the entrance area to Schwanenburg on Dr.-Heinz-Will-Platz.
On the east side of the market there was a brick-gabled house with typical stepped gables, which was built in brick until it was destroyed in the war.
On the historical meeting place of the Klever Gecken Society, the fountain with its seven bronze, water-spouting heads reminds of the former "head" of the society, consisting of a king and six councilors created by Anette Mürdter.
In 1981 the sculpture of the "Dead Warrior" by Ewald Mataré was set up on the neighboring forecourt in front of the provost church. It was created in 1934 for a memorial, for which the fallen Klever of the First World War was dedicated. After Mataré was officially declared a degenerate artist in 1937, the figure was smashed in 1938 in a night and fog action. Parts of the figure damaged during dismantling were found in 1977. It was restored by Elmar Hillebrand , a student of Mataré.
Narrenbrunnen by Anette Mürdter
Dead warrior by Ewald Mataré
View from the Kleiner Markt to the collegiate church
Web links
- kunst-acker.de, Kleve our city !, Posted by: Max on April 28, 2013
- lokalkompass.de, Narrenbrunnen by Eelco Hekster, from March 9, 2016
- kle-blatt.de, small market
- kle-blatt.de, small market with Hohenzollern fountain in Bad Cleve
- kleve-tourismus.de, the dead warrior in Kleve
- nrz.de, The Fall of a Clever Warrior by Ingo Plaschke, from February 21, 2014
- rp-online.de, Small Market: From Elector and Gable to Fool's Fountain without Market Hustle and bustle, from August 5, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ kleve.de, Dead Warrior
- ↑ nrz.de, Where there was a will, there was also a way from August 16, 2014
- ↑ kle-blatt.de, Kleiner Markt 81
- ↑ kleve.de, fools fountain
- ↑ villamerlaender.de, war memorial of Matare
- ↑ lokalkompass.de, The "Dead Warrior" from Mataré on the weekly city tours through Kleve
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '7.2 " N , 6 ° 8' 12.4" E