Rübezahlbrunnen (Hanover)

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Rübezahlbrunnen in Hanover midfield

The Rübezahlbrunnen in Hanover is a fountain built in the 1950s with a modern reminder of the Silesian mountain spirit Rübezahl . The location of the - listed - work of art in the public space of the Lower Saxony state capital is the Rübezahlplatz in the Hanover district of Mittelfeld .

History and description

After the Second World War , a stream of refugees , including thousands and thousands of expellees from Silesia, arrived in the city of Hanover, almost half destroyed by the air raids on Hanover, looking for a new home . Above all in the Mittelfeld district near the exhibition grounds initiated by the British military authorities for the export fair , which was first held in 1947 , the so-called “Fish Bread Fair” due to the lack of technical products, there was enough free building land in the “Mittelfeld” area after the currency reform at the beginning of the Federal Republic of Germany to build a new settlement with around 3,000 apartments.

In the course of the construction trade fair Constructa in 1951, the so-called Construkta settlement was initially created in Mittelfeld opposite the Seelhorst town cemetery . The center of the new building area was given the name Rübezahlplatz in memory of the old homeland, especially the Silesians. The city of Hanover commissioned the sculptor Kurt Lehmann to design the fountain on the square of the same name for this urban development, designed as a marketplace . In 1954, as a pictorial approach to the Giant Mountains in Silesia, the figure of the native mountain spirit, 80 hundredweight and 3.20 meters high, was hewn from Kirchheim shell limestone . The water gushes out of the base of the statue in soft tones similar to a spring on a mountain.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rainer Ertel , Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: Döhren / Wülfel / Mittelfeld / Messe , in this .: Fountain in Hanover: Water features and fountains in their districts , with a contribution by Ludwig Zerull , funded by Rut- and Klaus -Bahlsen-Stiftung , Hannover: Cartoon-Concept Agentur und Verlags GmbH, 1998, ISBN 3-932401-03-4 , p. 60ff .; here: p. 60f.
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang Neß : local map 7/30 Seelhorst / 32 midfield and midfield. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover , part 2, vol. 10.2, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , pp. 48f., 114f .; as well as middle field in the addendum : List of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , p
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. 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. 694f.
  4. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Messegelände , 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. 171f.
  5. ^ Rainer Ertel: Rübezahlbrunnen. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 528
  6. ^ Rainer Ertel, Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: Pictures from literature , in this: Hannoversches Brunnenbuch. Fountains and fountains in Hanover. Exemplary and documentary , Hanover: Fackelträger-Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-7716-1497-X , p. 34ff .; here: p. 35f.

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 20 '0.2 "  N , 9 ° 47' 23.8"  E