Queck Fountain

Stork figure on the fountain

Map of Dresden 1549 with the Queckbrunnen in front of the city

City map of Dresden 1809 with Quekborn [sic!] South of the orangery garden

The Queckbrunnen or Queckborn is located in Dresden on Hertha-Lindner- Strasse in the Wilsdruffer suburb .

Appearance

A square, 3.6 meter high sandstone fountain house stands above the fountain. There is a stork figure with a baby on it. With a stork figure, the height is 4.5 meters. On the front, the Dresden coat of arms is attached as a relief, underneath there is an iron water outlet pipe. The base area of the fountain base is 2.73 by 1.95 meters, the floor plan of the fountain house is 1.35 by 1.35 meters in the middle.

history

The fountain is one of the oldest fountains in the city . It was first mentioned in a document in 1461. The original location was on a cattle pasture 400 meters northwest of the Wilsdruffer Tor and served to supply the tanning community with water . The name of the fountain is also derived from its location: Queck is an old German word that means cattle and refers to a fountain where the cattle were watered.

At the same time, one can translate “queck” in the sense of “alive”, according to a legend the water of the Dresden Queckbrunnen should turn “sterile women into blessed mothers of children”. Before the Reformation , the fountain was so popular that a pilgrimage chapel was built next to it in 1514. This only existed until 1521, as their income reduced that of the Dresden Kreuzkirche .

The fountain was changed and renovated several times, for example in 1514, 1745, 1783, 1824 and 1977. The stork, which was set up in 1735, was badly damaged in 1945, so that Alfred Hörnig created a new one in 1968.

After the fountain stood in today's street “Am Queckbrunnen”, it was moved to its current location in 1965 and connected to the municipal water network.

The Queckbrunnen was one of the city's landmarks that journeyman craftsmen had to remember on the Walz in Dresden.

literature

Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
Art in public space . Information brochure of the state capital Dresden, December 1996.