Nepomuk figure (Grevenbrück)
The Nepomuk figure on the Lennebrücke Grevenbrück is a listed sculpture in Lennestadt .
Location
The 2.20 meter high shell limestone statue of St. John Nepomuk is located on the Lennebrücke (also known as Johannesbrücke) in Grevenbrück. The historically important long-distance routes Heidenstrasse and Römerweg have been united here since earlier times . At least since 1395 they used the bridge over the Lenne together . Today the federal highways B 55 and B 236 cross there . The Nepomuk figure on the Lennebrücke is in a significant place for the development of the place.
history
The Bohemian King Wenceslaus IV had the priest Johannes Nepomuk fall from the Charles Bridge in Prague into the Vltava and drowned on March 20, 1393 . According to legend, John Nepomuk died a martyr for refusing to break the secret of confession . He was canonized in 1729. Nepomuk is especially venerated as a bridge saint and a. as the patron saint of confessors as well as boatmen and raftsmen.
The first Nepomuk statue in Grevenbrück is said to have been made in 1730. Its builder was possibly the Prague sculptor Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff , although there is no reliable evidence for this assumption. There is evidence that Brokoff worked in the Cistercian monastery Grüssau in Silesia until March 1730 and died of consumption in Prague in early March 1731 . His activities in the past year and whether he possibly came to a work assignment in the Sauerland area cannot be reliably reconstructed. Brokoff's father was the popular sculptor Johann Brokoff , who among other things made one of the most famous Nepomuk statues ever, the one on Charles Bridge. Some figures on the Charles Bridge are also attributed to Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff himself. The Grevenbrücker Nepomuk statue sank when the Lenne Bridge was blown up in 1945, its whereabouts are still uncertain today.
The current Nepomuk figure was created in 1949 by the local sculptor Ewald Büngener as a free re-creation of the previous sculpture . A bronze plaque belongs to the statue from 1949, which repeats the text accompanying the previous figure : “ Never a picture / O wanderer / only God / worship / and the venerable / my pious Christian / who is understood through this picture / that he protects you in front of danger throughout the day and every year / part also with the poor something / that he asks God for you ”. The appeal for donations in the last two lines referred to an offering box that was embedded in the base of the old figure.
Monument protection
The Nepomuk figure was entered on the list of monuments of the city of Lennestadt on March 5, 2014. The memory of the work and creativity of the Christian sculptor Ewald Büngener and also urban planning reasons speak for the preservation of the statue, because the statue draws attention to the bridge as a historically significant place.
source
- Documentation of the worth of preservation of the Nepomuk statue. Published on the Lennestadt.de website, under the heading Living and Housing / Monument Protection / Architectural Monuments in Lennestadt, accessed on September 6, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Grevenbrück e. V .: Gevore - Fjord - Grevenbrück. A place in the Sauerland through the ages 2015. p. 10.
- ^ Gerhard Franz: Brokoff, Ferdinand Maximilian in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 2 (1955), p. 632 [online version]; URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118857290.html#ndbcontent
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 40.2 " N , 8 ° 1 ′ 12.4" E