Shoemaker boy from Weißenfels
The shoemaker's boy (actually "city boy") is a 1.40 meter high bronze figure of a happy boy in the Weißenfels city park. It stands on a pedestal that bears the inscription “Because I'm happy!” And is considered a landmark of Weißenfels.
In the summer of 1905, the Schkopau sculptor Paul Juckoff received an order from a Zeitz stroller manufacturer to model this statue for display in Zeitz . The mayor of Weißenfels at the time liked this sculpture , and at his instigation a second cast was made and set up when the old cemetery was transformed into a city park.
An unknown Weißenfelser kept the “cobbler boy” in his cellar during the Second World War . Thus the figure could be put up again after the end of the war.
On the figure, there is nothing to the shoemaker out, but the saying has made the actual "city boy" to the "orphans". He is thus a symbol of Weißenfels and is better known beyond the city limits than the Zeitz original.
The German Oi! -Band, the cobbler boys .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Shoemaker boy in Weißenfelser Stadtpark
- ^ Sculptor Paul Juckoff
- ↑ Weißenfels in the picture: City boy
- ↑ Shoemaker Boys
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 55.4 ″ N , 11 ° 58 ′ 7.5 ″ E