Shaft well (Quedlinburg)
The Schachtbrunnen is a listed fountain named after the merchant Friedrich Schacht in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .
The fountain is located on Blasiistrasse west of the town's market square, directly in front of the southwest corner of the Sankt-Blasii-Kirche .
history
The installation of the fountain goes back to a foundation made in 1911 by the merchant Friedrich Schacht , from which the name of the fountain is derived. The reason for the foundation was Schacht's departure from the city council. Schacht himself died in 1913 and did not see the completion of the well he donated in the same year.
layout
The fountain was designed in Art Nouveau style by the Berlin sculptor Franz Blazek . On a granite plinth is a hexagonal basin made of light gray limestone about one meter high. A square, profiled stele, also made of limestone, rises in the middle. On each side of the stele there is an ornate gargoyle forged from bronze , from which water pours into the fountain basin. On the stele is a group of figures consisting of a boy with a dog. The boy is a shepherd boy, the dog is the Quedlinburg heraldic animal . The representation refers to a local legend.
On the front of the column is the Quedlinburg coat of arms, on the back there is the family coat of arms of the founder, a sailing ship with billowing sails. Above the coat of arms is the inscription of his hometown Friedrich Schacht 1913 .
See also
literature
- Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 765.
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , p. 89.
Web links
Blasiistrasse 1 | Blasiistrasse 2 | Blasiistraße 2a, 3 | Blasiistrasse 4 | Blasiistraße 5 | Blasiistrasse 6 | Blasiistrasse 7 | Blasiistrasse 8 | Blasiistrasse 9 | Blasiistrasse 10 | Blasiistrasse 11 | Blasiistraße 12 | Lüdde Brewery (Blasiistraße 14) | Blasiistraße 16 | Blasiistrasse 17 | Blasiistrasse 20 | Blasiistraße 21 | Blasiistraße 23 | Blasiistrasse 27 | Blasiistraße 28 | St. Blasii | Shaft well
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Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 19.1 ″ N , 11 ° 8 ′ 24.6 ″ E