Art in public space in Aue

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Altmarkt fountain in autumn 2008

The district of Aue in the large district town of Aue-Bad Schlema has a few fountains and numerous sculptures throughout the city . This article introduces some interesting works of art, but is not intended to be exhaustive. The majority of the fountains and sculptures are the work of local artists. Together with the article Monuments and memorials in Aue , art in public space is largely represented.

Entrance

Entrance blocks from 1983, in 2009
  • The concrete visible elements set up on the access roads of the city in 1983 on the occasion of the campaign “More beautiful our streets” created a friendly welcome . They showed the Auer city coat of arms on one side, and on the opposite side a logo with bridges, chimneys and the Soviet star, which was developed for the city's 800th anniversary celebrations , as a reference to the uranium extraction and the miner's greeting "Glück auf". Such a block has been preserved on today's federal highway 101 and has been reconstructed in color. However, an advertising board was permanently installed in front of the city arms.

Fountains and water features

  • In 1969, in preparation for the Whitsun meeting of the Free German Youth, the Altmarkt was decorated with a few water features in raised beds, after it was previously just a paved square. In 2004 the market square got a new fountain, which is framed with polished black granite.
Small reading fountain in Wettinerstrasse
  • In the place of a demolished house on Wettiner Straße there has been a stone fountain bowl since 2006, on the edge of which sits a reading girl, the bronze figure is called The Little City Maiden . The production and installation of the fountain goes back to the sponsorship of the Kreissparkasse Aue-Schwarzenberg .
  • A shallow fountain bubbles in the center of the Postplatz , surrounded by bushes, flower beds and some trees. An equestrian statue of the Saxon King Albert stood here for several decades .
  • At the corner of Poststrasse and Schillerstrasse there has been a concrete fountain basin since 1981, the center of which is adorned with a bronze group of gossip women . The figures come from Gottfried Kohl's workshop and were made as a second cast for Aue. The original is on the market square of the city of Freiberg . The fountain was donated by an Auer resident and built with the help of numerous local companies under the responsibility of the city architect Wolfgang Unger . From 1989 onwards, no more water splashed into the concrete shell, and it was only possible to put it back into operation around 2001 after extensive restoration.
  • A basin with six small fountains framed by flower beds formed the water features in the city ​​garden until 1937 . The Carola pond in the same garden has an illuminated cascade-like fountain rising up to 12 meters high . The water features, including the open-air stage and the large gondola ponds, had to give way in 1956 for the construction of the cultural center and the new street layout along Schneeberger Straße .
  • In front of the side entrance to the Hotel Blauer Engel in the city center, a tiered fountain made of brown stone, together with a small green area and benches, forms a relaxing oasis.

Sculptures, friezes and other things

overview

Plaster picture with a cityscape

The facade or gable decoration of the church buildings in the city is not shown separately here, it is dealt with in the Auer church buildings ( St. Nicolai , Friedenskirche and Mater Dolorosa ). The various decorative elements attached to numerous houses in the city area, right up to the gables, which were commissioned by earlier bank establishments, factory owners, department store operators or wealthy citizens, are reserved for individual representations of these buildings.

In the entire local area

The Auer Stadtwerke , which supply all residential buildings in the city with electricity and town gas , operate distribution boxes, transformer stations and gas control systems as small individual buildings on the roadside for the purpose of forwarding and switching . Since 2010, the municipal utilities have had graffiti artists embellish these otherwise inconspicuous buildings or even those that are inviting to graffiti on given current topics (2018 electric mobility ). This action was continued in 2018, the art group Stark in Form - the Farbfritzen left further small representations in the entire Auer urban area.

Downtown

  • The old town center around 1900 around Kirchstrasse is made visible on a colored wall painting.
  • A concrete ball on a pedestal has stood in Schwarzenberger Strasse in front of the Nicolaipassage since June 1998 . A brass plaque reports that this is probably a historical ball stone from the earlier wall around the parish building of the St. Nicolai parish , which was found during civil engineering work in 1995.
Putti on a pillar of the school bridge
Exercising children in front of the school building in Aue -zelle
  • The school bridge (built 1914–1915) and the Schiller bridge (built 1914) have some decorative stone elements such as putti with animals or depictions of horses. Both bridges are under monument protection .
  • In the open space of the zoo there are some animal sculptures made of sandstone (penguin pair) and wood (elephant).
  • The culture house on the edge of the city garden, completed in 1958, is decorated with a plaster relief in the style of the time, showing a musician, a dancer, a soldier and two miners.
  • In the city garden there are other wooden figures or wooden animals made at the artist symposium organized by Auer Stadtwerke in 1999 . The artist group Exponart , with Robby Schubert, Detlef Jehn, Mirko Fütterer and Tobias Michael, was particularly involved in the sometimes very abstract depictions .

In the Aue-Cell area

  • For a new school building on the Zeller Berg, the city had a bronze sculpture of the end of gymnastics children made and inaugurated on June 1, 1977 on the occasion of the International Children's Day . The group of figures shows two boys doing a handstand.
  • With the arrival of many miners after 1950, the SDAG Wismut established a Wismut polyclinic for medical care in the area of ​​Zell . In front of it the city fathers put up a bronze miner figure . After the polyclinic was converted into a medical center, the figure was preserved there as an ornament.

In the local area Brünlasberg

The carpet weavers of Kujan-Bulak
  • In the area of ​​a school opened in 1964 there is a remarkable stone sculpture The carpet weavers of Kujan-Bulak honor Lenin . This is the artistic implementation of a poem by Bertolt Brecht , published in 1939 in the Svendborger Gedichte collection . - Here is a short version of this story (the full text can be read under [1] ): Comrade Lenin was often extensively honored, there are busts and statues. Cities are named after him, […] speeches are given […], there are meetings and demonstrations from Shanghai to Chicago. But this is how the carpet weavers from Kujan-Bulak, a small town in southern Turkestan, honored him : twenty carpet weavers, shaken by fever, sit all day in front of the poor loom. There is a fever [...] that is transmitted by the mosquitoes from the swamp behind the old camel cemetery. […] One day […] the poor people […] also want to put up a plastered bust for Lenin in their village. To do this, they donate their hard-won kopecks with flying hands. […] The assigned Red Army soldier Stepa Gamalew […] suddenly makes the suggestion to buy petroleum with the money for the bust and pour it on the swamp […] from which the mosquitoes that cause fever come. [...] That was what the people decided. On the day of the honor they carried out their battered buckets filled with the black petroleum [...] and doused the swamp with them. So they used each other by honoring Lenin and honored him by using each other, and so they understood him. […] Finally they put up a plaque at the train station with the report of this incident, containing exactly the changed plan and the exchange of the Lenin bust for the feverish ton of petroleum. - The group of figures standing about 1.50 meters high on a rectangular concrete base illustrates this traditional story and represents a less intrusive way of honoring Lenin. - The school has meanwhile been converted into a care facility for the elderly.
  • When the new buildings were completed around 1970, the central square of the residential area on Brünlasberg was given a group of stone figures by the Chemnitz artist Dieter Bayer . It shows five people of different ages sitting on a bench. In 1996 the entire square was redesigned as a parking lot for the shopping center, for which the group of figures was only to be removed temporarily. The building authorities of the city had the building, which was badly damaged by environmental influences, taken to the municipal building yard after information from citizens. The sculpture is still stored there today (2010).
Froebel monument
  • In front of a building built in 1972 as a kindergarten combination, which was converted into a primary school after the fall of the Wall , there is a symbolic memorial for the pedagogue Friedrich Froebel : cube, roller and ball represent Froebel's thoughts on the simplest of play figures.

In other local areas

Lions in front of the former district office
Wooden girl in the parking lot of the museum

* At the former administration building of the Wellner cutlery factory , later the district office and today's district archive, two sandstone lions flank the main entrance. The factory building complex of the old ABS cutlery factory in the vicinity , which has been vacant for several years, is decorated with numerous sculptural figures and other facade decorations.

  • A sculpture swimmer with child adorned the municipal open-air swimming pool on the Hakenkrümme in the Niederpfannenstiel area , which was set up in 1921 . When this bathing establishment was filled up after 1946, the jewelry was initially secured by the city. - The Auerhammer open-air swimming pool , built in 1935 according to plans by the Lange family of hammer mills , fed by the Zschorlaubach , was later given the stone bathing mermaids. They were placed next to the swimming pool.
  • A seated girl made of wood welcomes visitors on the surrounding wall of the city museum.
  • A historic post mile column stood on the Altmarkt until the 19th century. After its redesign, the city administration moved the distance column to Lößnitzer Straße near the train station. Remnants of the shaft found in 1968 were given a place in the permanent exhibition at Frohburg Castle .
  • Other sculptures visible in public space that have not (yet) been assigned locally show works by the artists Emil Teubner ( girl with cat ), Gotthard Richter ( miner ) and a stone girl with a lying sheep .

literature

  • Aue in the mirror of historical images of the 20s and 30s of the 20th century ; Geiger Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1993, ISBN 3-89264-829-8
  • Ralf Petermann and Lothar Walther: Aue - 40 years of everyday life in the GDR, series of pictures from the GDR , Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2005, ISBN 3-89702-857-3

Web links

Commons : Art in Aue  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b written information from Jana Hecker, press officer for the city administration of Aue from May 2009
  2. Aue, 40 years, ... , p. 30
  3. Aue im Spiegel ... 20s and 30s, ... pp. 88–89
  4. Starkinform homepage , accessed on October 22, 2018.
  5. ^ Graffiti on behalf of the Auer Stadtwerke , press release from the town hall, April 19, 2018.
  6. Homepage of the Auer Tiergarten, accessed on June 1, 2009 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zooderminis.de
  7. Auer Zeitung from 9./10. November 1996: Group of five put on hold. Parking lot construction on Brünlasberg: Sculptures now in the building yard.
  8. ^ Homepage of the Auerhammer swimming pool with details on the history; Retrieved May 31, 2009
  9. Illustration of the sculpture swimmer with child ( Memento from July 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )