Ludwig Railway Monument
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The Ludwig Railroad Memorial is a monument with a fountain in the Nuremberg district Gostenhof .
history
On December 7, 1885, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the eagle's journey on the Ludwig Railway between Nuremberg and Fürth, the symbolic foundation stone for a memorial was laid at Nuremberg's Ludwigsbahnhof on Plärrer . In 1887 Heinrich Schwabe's design for an ornamental fountain won a competition for the specific design of the memorial, which was not announced until afterwards , although the jury praised Rudolf Maison's “Herakles” design as the best artistic achievement.
The fountain was unveiled on October 16, 1890. The Kingdom of Bavaria paid half of the cost of 58,500 marks . The other half of the amount came from the Ludwigseisenbahn-Gesellschaft, from the city, from suburban associations and private patrons such as Ludwig Ritter von Gerngroß .
When the tracks and stops for the Nuremberg tram were expanded , the monument was moved to the city limits between Nuremberg and Fürth in 1927. In 1965 it had to turn to the construction of the subway soft and was in a nearby green area inside the junction Nuremberg / Fuerth A 73 is added. The patron and fountain lover Kurt Klutentreter made it possible to move the monument to Fürther Straße at the eastern entrance of the Bärenschanze underground station in 1993.
layout
On an approximately 10-meter-high granite - Obelisk is a small sculpture in bronze, sitting on the side Furthia and Noris, the personifications of cities Fürth and Nuremberg. The small sculpture glorifies the first German train journey as a triumphant advance of technology. The bronze sculptures come from the Lenz art foundry .
Historical illustrations
Ludwig Railway Monument at Plärrer, 1891
Plärrer with the Ludwig Railway Monument, 1905
literature
- Kurt Müller: Famed, banned and rediscovered. The complicated history of the art fountain in memory of the first German railway. ( The railway fountain. ) In: Nürnberger Altstadt reports , issue 16 (1991).
- Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( online ).
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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '7.5 " N , 11 ° 3' 8.3" E