Piepenborn

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Seven parts of the Piepenborn on the city wall in the Hanover Historical Museum

The Piepenborn (also: Marktbrunnen ) in Hanover was a 16th century fountain on the market square between the old town hall and the market church . Its preserved parts can be found today in the Hanover Historical Museum .

history

The Piepenborn was the successor to an older water distribution system with a tapping point at the northeast corner of the old town hall .

The water for the fountain was supplied from the leash at the Bornkunst am Himmelreich through wooden pipes ("Piepen"), hence the name "Piepenborn".

The Piepenborn was in the style of 1548 in Hildesheim created Roland fountain built

Bills of the combing from 1551 documented the year of construction of the fountain, while the Bornguldenregister showed that the Hanoverian stonemason Arndt Siemerding was the builder of the fountain, but for four of the panels a Hildesheim master of unknown name. This new fountain for the market square in Hanover was built in the style of the Roland fountain in Hildesheim :

The eight-sided fountain basin made of Obernkirchen sandstone was painted in color with "scenes about the blessing and life-sustaining power of water". The corner pieces showed symbolic representations of the planets . Four stone lion heads were shaped as gargoyles on the fountain column . A second basin rested on the lions' heads, which was crowned by the figure of "Hänschen auf dem Piepenborn".

The well system was only used for a good half a century and was replaced by the Aktäonbrunnen after it was demolished in 1619 .

After the basin plates of the Piepenborn had long been considered lost, they were later found again, together with an edge piece that bore the year 1551. The fountain parts were walled up on both sides above the entrance door of the Soden monastery and on the linen side of the council monastery . The finds were then kept in the Leibnizhaus and photographed in 1927 and the references to the Hildesheim Roland fountain were analyzed :

"The themes and the sculptural treatment of the half-figures depicted on the plates correspond to those of the Hildesheimer Fountain."

They showed scenes from the Old Testament with references to water in strong relief against a landscape background . The inscriptions, some of which are difficult to decipher, indicated the biblical passages and the names of those portrayed: "Eleazar with Rebecca, Gideon and Simoson, Elisa and Naeman, Tobias and the angel." According to a description by the Hanoverian chronicler Johann Heinrich Redecker , the other records that were still missing were of the well basin presumed as reliefs "with David and Bathsheba, furthermore with Joshua and with the city arms."

After the air raids on Hanover in World War II , further parts of the Piepenborn were found in the reconstruction years of 1952 during construction work on the cloister corridor.

In addition to other parts considered lost - according to tradition from the manuscripts in the Hanover City Archives - a double distich was attached to the fountain , which glorified the Broyhan beer invented by Cord Broyhan :

"Sodeniana domus Brochanam prima coquebat Brochanus coctor nomina fecit egg. Secula si quindena super numeraveris annum Vicenum hoc ann prima Brochana fuit. Johann Brochan, Inventore Volksmaro from Anderten. "

See also

literature

  • Arnold Nöldeke : Piepenborn. In: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover Vol. 1, H. 2, Teil 1, Hannover, self-published by the Provinzialverwaltung, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932 (Neudruck Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ), p. 731ff .
  • Riemer: On the history of the city of Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , series 17 (1914), pp. 256–264
  • Sabine Wehking : DI 36, No. 94 (†) , in: Inscription catalog: City of Hannover on www.inschriften.net
  • U. Stille: The Piepenborn from 1551. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , Neue Reihe 8 (1955), pp. 128-139
  • Rainer Ertel : Piepenborn. 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 , p. 502.
  • Rainer Ertel, Ernst Friedrich Roesener: Old Town. In: Fountains in Hanover: Fountains 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 GmbH, 1998, ISBN 3-932401-03 -4 , p. 22f.

Web links

Commons : Piepenborn (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Rainer Ertel: Piepenborn (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Arnold Nöldeke: Piepenborn (see literature)
  3. ↑ a b Sabine Wehking: DI 36, No. 94 (†) (see literature)
  4. ↑ According to Nöldeke; compare Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter 1914, p. 259