Nibelungen Grotto
The Nibelungen Grotto was a building that stood in the park of Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn .
At the time the building was built, the sugar manufacturer Leopold Koenig owned the property.
The grotto was created around 1880, when the building permit was granted, and represented a scene from the opera Das Rheingold , premiered in 1869 , the first work in the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner . The view of the grotto from the Rhine promenade was at that time a popular picture postcard motif of the Rhine romanticism .
On the Rhine promenade, a few meters from the former location of the Nibelungen Grotto, a frieze from the 19th century has been preserved at the staircase to Tempelstrasse . This frieze also shows a scene from the opera Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner. The dwarf Alberich from the people of the Nibelung jumps cause and snatches the river Rhine, the Rheingold . In the background, one of the Rhine daughters anxiously watches what is happening.
The Nibelungen Grotto was made unrecognizable in 1950 by removing the figures at the request of the then Federal President Theodor Heuss .
The remains of the grotto can be found today, overgrown with ivy , at the 6th station of the planetary educational trail , the planet Jupiter , on the Rhine promenade.
Footnotes
- ↑ Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 2, Catalog (1), p. 217 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
- ^ Charlotte Püttmann: The park of the Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn . In: Die Gartenkunst 29 (1/2017), pp. 181–204 (here: p. 197).
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Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '21.9 " N , 7 ° 7' 8.3" E