Müllerbrunnen
The Müllerbrunnen is a fountain in the Dresden district of Plauen on F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz and one of its landmarks.
history
The Müllerbrunnen was built in 1902 on the initiative of the sons of the mill owner Gottlieb Traugott Bienert on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the ownership of the court mill . The fountain was designed in Art Nouveau style by the Dresden architects William Lossow and Hermann Viehweger . The original sculpture of the miller's boy crowning the base of the fountain came from the sculptor Robert Henze and was cast in the C. Albert Bierling art foundry .
The fountain was intended to commemorate Plauen's tradition as a mill location and at the same time to erect a memorial to the poet Wilhelm Müller, who lived here at times . Müller often stayed in the nearby Plauenschen Grund and is the author of the folk song The hiking is the miller's lust ... , the first lines of which are carved on the base of the fountain.
The Müllerbrunnen was erected on the west side of the then Rathausplatz (today F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz) instead of the betting column that had been there until then and was inaugurated on December 2nd, 1902.
The fountain consists of a stone substructure, four other smaller fountain basins, and a base into which a movable mill wheel has been integrated. A total of 32 different gargoyles surround the substructure and the central well basin. The fountain is decorated with floral elements as well as human and animal faces. The stone center plinth was crowned by the bronze sculpture of the miller's boy created by Robert Henze.
In 1942 the plastic of the miller's boy was dismantled and melted down for armament purposes . It was not until 1986 that the fountain was restored and completed by the sculptor Wilhelm Landgraf with a copy of the Henzeschen sculpture made from photographs: the copy is recognizable in a few details. So the original of the plastic wore the shirt open, the copy is closed from top to bottom.
Another renovation took place in 1993 and the well has been in operation again since then.
The Müllerbrunnen gave its name to a restaurant located on the square that was destroyed in 1945 and has been so since January 1, 1904 for Müllerbrunnenstrasse (from 1897 to Rathausstrasse ), which runs west from the square . The nursing home (senior citizens' residence) on the south side of the square is called Am Müllerbrunnen .
See also
Web links
- The Müllerbrunnen on dresdner-stadtteile.de . Retrieved August 17, 2016.
- The Müllerbrunnen in the Stadtwiki Dresden . Retrieved August 17, 2016.
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 46.5 ″ N , 13 ° 42 ′ 24.2 ″ E