Schönbornbrünnchen
The Schönbornbrünnchen is the well house with attached water tower of the source Geisborn in Koblenz . The spring at the foot of the Kimmelberg in the Metternich district has fed the first electoral aqueduct in the city of Koblenz since 1786 . The fountain with the water tower is a memorial for the technical achievement that made the construction of the first water pipeline possible and for the work of the sovereign in the water supply of his subjects.
history
As early as the 16th century there were plans to pipe spring water to Koblenz. But since there were neither pipes nor money to build them, all plans were discarded.
From 1750 onwards, Elector Franz Georg von Schönborn from Trier, with the help of Balthasar Neumann , tried to enclose the Geisborn springs in order to connect a water pipe to Koblenz. However, due to technical difficulties with the pipeline, construction was stopped in 1754. With the construction of the Electoral Palace in Koblenz 1777–1793 under Elector Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony , the latter had the construction of the water pipeline resumed. The electoral court fountain master Georg Kirn (1736–1793) completed the water pipe from Metternich in the years 1783–1786 and renovated the fountain room. There were also three water towers to ventilate the pipes, only one of which is still preserved on Kimmelberg today. The other two were at Rohrer Höfe in Metternich and in Koblenz's old town .
Electoral aqueduct
The 6 km long electoral aqueduct led from the two springs of the Geisborn to a water tower near the Rohrer Höfe in Metternich, via Lützel and the Balduin Bridge into Koblenz's old town. Via the Altengraben and the plan, the water was first led into another water tower, a converted former defense tower of the medieval city fortifications , in the area of today's central square . From this reservoir it was eventually distributed to the wells and associated households. The water tower wall on the central square that was torn down in the 1960s was a reminder of this water tower.
The water pipe consisted of cast iron pipes from the Sayner hut . It was the first to supply the newly built Electoral Palace with drinking water from August 21, 1786 . This was followed on November 23, 1791 by the connection of the Clement Fountain on Clemensplatz, which the Elector gave to his neighbors, according to the inscription on the fountain. In French times the water pipe became the property of the city and in 1806 the fountain was connected on the plan and on August 15, 1812 the Kastor fountain in front of the Kastor church .
It was not until Mayor Karl Heinrich Lottner that the water supply of Koblenz was further expanded in 1884 by building a waterworks on the Oberwerth . During the Second World War , the aqueduct was damaged by air raids in 1944 , but then repaired and used until 1986. In October 1971, a marble slab was pulled out of the rubble of the water tower, which was destroyed in 1944, reminding us of the construction of the first electoral water pipe by Georg Kirn in Latin script . It was repaired and placed on the plan on June 7, 1979 at the fountain.
Part of the electoral aqueduct, exhibited on the Balduin Bridge
The Clemensbrunnen (obelisk) stands in front of the theater today and in 1791 was the first fountain to be connected to the Metternich water pipe
In 1806 the fountain followed on the plan ...
... and in 1812 the Kastor fountain in front of the Kastor Church
construction
The well room of the Schönbornbrünnchen is a tunnel socket with lateral collecting channels and water inlets to a collecting basin made of marble . The ventilation tower on the Kimmelberg is a cylindrical tower with several rectangular openings, which have a frame made of basalt , and a wooden eaves cornice . It was restored in 1988 and equipped with a water outlet, created by the Koblenz sculptor Rudi Scheuermann . The hemispherical roof was covered with a new copper skin in 2004 .
A commemorative plaque with the reliefs of the Electoral Palace and the Clement Fountain is attached to the wall next to the water outlet. It reads here:
- " Geisenborn spring "
- “ The spring has served as a water supply since 1786. The first aqueduct, built 1783–1786, led from here over the Balduin Bridge to the castle. "
Monument protection
The Schönbornbrünnchen is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and registered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Metternich on Geisbachstrasse .
See also
literature
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz. (Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt)
- Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X .
- Volume 2: From the French city to the present. Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5 .
- Manfred Hertling: Meddernicher water. In: Metternicher Kärmes-Zeitung. 2012, p. 44.
- Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz heads. People from the city's history - namesake for streets and squares. 2. revised u. exp. Edition. Publishing house for advertising papers, Mülheim-Kärlich 2005, pp. 287f.
- Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .
Web links
- Historical review to commemorate the 200-year-old electoral cast iron pipe in Koblenz
- Altstädter Brunnengemeinschaft Koblenz 1983 eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013.
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '28.4 " N , 7 ° 33' 12.8" E