Pig driver fountain
The Schweinetreiberbrunnen (also known as butcher with pig ) is a fountain in Dresden's Ostragehege and is located in the inner area of the former slaughterhouse , today the grounds of the Dresden Exhibition Center .
The bronze sculpture depicts a driver who is holding a pig between his legs and grabbing it by the ears. The "lively and humorous sculpture" (quote from Eilfeld) was created by Georg Wrba in 1922, whose signature is on the bronze plate.
This sculpture was not originally a well (no evidence is available) and stood on a square sandstone plinth in an octagonal basin (dimensions: the bronze plate 50 × 55 centimeters, diameter of the basin approx. 260 centimeters). During the Second World War it was brought to Hamburg as part of a non-ferrous metal collection at the " Glockenfriedhof " (the warehouse of the Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg tin works ), but not melted down there.
Discovered there in 1949 and secured, it was returned to Dresden in 1956 with considerable difficulty.
In 1999 it was removed from its original location and initially stored. It was initially relocated to the Erlweinhof in Altpieschen .
Since 2007 it has been back at the old square, now in the inner area of the Dresden Sports High School, and is operated as a fountain: Controlled by a water computer and connected to the Dresden drinking water network, a small water parabola can be seen from the pig's mouth into the fountain basin, mainly in the afternoon.
See also
literature
- Detlef Eilfeld, Jochen Hänsch: The Dresden fountain book - water in its most beautiful form. Volume II. SV Saxonia Verlag, Dresden o. J. (2016), ISBN 978-3-944210759 , pp. 150-151.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eilfeld, p. 150.
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 6.5 ″ N , 13 ° 43 ′ 12.8 ″ E