Pelican fountain (Hanover)

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The pelican fountain dedicated to Fritz Beindorff on the Eilenriede in Hanover

The pelican fountain in Hanover is a translocated and transformed fountain with two pelicans . The water feature dedicated to the owner of Pelikan AG , Fritz Beindorff , is located on Walderseestrasse (corner of Fritz-Beindorff-Allee) in the Hanover district of List on the edge of the Eilenriede in the Zoo district .

history

Today's Pelikan fountain stands in the place of the Merkur fountain , which was erected in the New Town Hall in 1913 on the basis of a bequest from the higher regional judge Simon, who died in Frankfurt am Main . After this first fountain was moved to the Eilenriede in 1935, the bronze figure of Mercury, the messenger of the gods, was dismantled as a vital supplier of raw materials for armaments during the Second World War ; it could not be found again after the war.

Therefore, in 1961 , the sculptor Ludwig Vierthaler received the order, financed by the Fritz Behrens Foundation , to design a pair of pelicans for what is now a listed facility. However, the two animals - cast in the Haberland brothers' art foundry in Hainholz - did not fit on the original small base in the upper and formerly only water basin of the fountain, so that the base was finally dismantled and the pelicans were placed directly on the upper water basin. The revised, “new” fountain dedicated by the Fritz Behrens Foundation to Fritz Beindorff was inaugurated on the Dormouse Day in 1961.

See also

literature

  • Rainer Ertel , Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: From the messenger of the gods to the pelican in this: Hannoversches Brunnenbuch. Fountains and fountains in Hanover. Exemplary and documentary , Hanover: Fackelträger-Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-7716-1497-X , p. 66ff., 100
  • 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 Verlag GmbH, 1998, ISBN 3-932401-03-4 , pp. 6, 40

Web links

Commons : Pelican Fountain  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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 Verlags GmbH, 1998, ISBN 3-932401-03-4 , pp. 6, 40
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang Neß : Die Eilenriede , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), part 1, volume 10.1, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 157; as well as zoo in the addendum to part 2, volume 10.2: List of monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation, p. 10f.
  3. ^ Rainer Ertel, Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: From the messenger of the gods to the pelican , in this: Hannoversches Brunnenbuch. Fountains and fountains in Hanover. Exemplary and documentary , Hanover: Fackelträger-Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-7716-1497-X , p. 66ff., 100

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 37 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 55"  E