Marcus Fountain (Liebfrauenkirchhof)
The Marcus Fountain in Bremen - Mitte is on the Liebfrauenkirchhof . It was inaugurated in 1909 and has been a listed building since 1973 .
Victor Marcus (1849–1911) was senator from 1887 and mayor of Bremen in 1907 and 1909 . In 1883 he donated the first Marcus fountain in the Bürgerpark and in 1908 the second Marcus fountain in the Liebfrauenkirchhof.
The fountain in the Liebfrauenkirchhof was executed in 1909 according to a design by the Berlin architect Heinrich Jennen with plastic jewelry by the Munich sculptor Hermann Hahn . The decagonal base and the fountain bowl are made of stone. The fountain Stock of blue limestone is richly decorated and with five Putten from Bronze provided in the niches, with toys or animals from which water trickles. The inscription on the basin reads: “Donated by Victor Marcus Dr. iur. Mayor MCMVIIII ", the one at the well:" Give me water alive so that I do not thirst forever ( Joh. Ev. 4,15) ". The fountain should attract the attention of those from Sögestraßedirect pedestrians to the Moltkedenkmal at the neighboring Liebfrauenkirche, also inaugurated in 1909 and by the same artists .
There was a taxi rank in the square for a long time, and the taxi drivers tended the fountain; that is why it used to be called "taxi fountain".
literature
- The Moltke monument and the Markus fountain in Bremen. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 44, 1910, No. 38 (from May 11, 1910), p. 289.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
- ^ Beate Mielsch: Monuments open sculptures fountain in Bremen 1800–1945. Bremen 1980, p. 30. ( k: art in public space bremen )
See also
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 36.6 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 26.8" E