Neptune Fountain (Hanover)

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Eight baroque putti on turtles and dolphins form the water features named after Neptune in the Great Garden of Hanover-Herrenhausen .
The Golden Gate forms an optical axis with the Neptune Fountain and the portal of the gallery building

The Neptune Fountain in Hanover is a fountain in the Great Garden of Herrenhausen . The water-spouting baroque sculpture ensemble with the Roman water god Neptune can be found there in the orangery ground floor between the Golden Gate and the gallery building.

history

A first basin against the background of the baroque facade of the gallery building was created for the first time in the years 1696 to 1697 by Brand Westermann according to a design by Marinus Cadart and was initially decorated with the sculpture of a boy with a dolphin as a gargoyle .

In the centuries that followed, the fountain was redesigned several times until, after the transfer of ownership of the Great Garden to the City of Hanover in 1936, it was given a central fountain with a few smaller fountains arranged around it in a circle. Up to the turn of the millennium, this arrangement visually emphasized and increased the axis between the Golden Gate and the portal of the gallery building and at the same time formed the center of the geometrically laid out gardens of the orangery parterre in its octagonal water basin.

The eight putti around the water god Neptune installed here today originally come "[...] from the first half of the 17th century" and are therefore older than the size of the Great Garden today. When the overgrown baroque garden was restored during the reign of the Kingdom of Hanover under Queen Friederike , the court architect Georg Heinrich Schuster put the eight putti riding on turtles and dolphins and the Neptune on the roof of the grotto in 1848.

The nine brass figures were initially removed during the renovation of the grotto in 2002 and were then kept in a warehouse for nine years. Only after a donation of around 200,000 euros by the Friends of the Herrenhausen Gardens Association and a grant from the City of Hanover of 120,000 euros as well as a redesign and arrangement by the sculptor Magnus Kleine-Tebbe were the water-spouting figures accessible to the public again in spring 2008 be made.

See also

Web links

Commons : Fountain of Neptune  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d jk (text), Rainer Dröse (photo): New start for Neptune. In: Walsroder Zeitung of April 29, 2008
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Herrenhausen Gardens. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (Ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 134-144, v. a. Pp. 136f., 140
  3. ↑ a b c Rainer Ertel , Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: Fountain in Hanover: Water features and fountains in their districts , with a contribution by Ludwig Zerull , funded by the Rut and Klaus Bahlsen Foundation , Hanover: Cartoon-Concept Agency and Publishing House GmbH, 1998, ISBN 3-932401-03-4 , pp. 84f.
  4. ^ Eva Benz-Rababah : Large garden. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 231-235; here: p. 232.
  5. ↑ a b Marieanne von Koenig (ed.), Bernd Adam et al., Wolfgang Volz (photos): Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover , Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8353-0053-8 and ISBN 3-8353-0053-9 , p. 56 and others; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ Magnus Kleine-Tebbe: Commissioned work / works in public space on the page magnus-kleine-tebbe.de , last accessed on August 29, 2016

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '25.9 "  N , 9 ° 41' 58.9"  E