Siegfriedbrunnen (Worms)
The Siegfriedbrunnen is a listed fountain in the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Worms . He is reminiscent of Siegfried the dragon slayer , one of the main characters in the Nibelungen saga .
location
The Siegfriedbrunnen stands in front of the Haus zur Münze , in which the city library is located, about 100 meters southwest of the town hall and almost immediately next to the Trinity Church at the intersection of Hagenstrasse and Marktplatz.
history
The first idea to build a fountain south of the Holy Trinity Church connected to the Nibelungen saga and to call it the Nibelungenbrunnen came from the year 1895 and came from the industrialist and patron Cornelius Wilhelm Heyl of Worms . The Herborn architect Karl Hofmann , who was working in Worms at the time, took up the suggestion and developed a design that was not accepted by the council .
The fountain in its current form was created in 1913 by the Munich sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand . The financial means for the well made of shell limestone were donated by Heyl and his wife Sophie.
The completed fountain was only erected in front of the Cornelianum in 1921 because of the turmoil of the First World War . The Cornelianum was damaged in World War II , later completely demolished and replaced by the Haus zur Münze . The Siegfriedbrunnen remained at its location.
description
It is a heptagonal domed building , on the highest point of which Siegfried the dragon slayer stands with his sword . In this context, the Hagendenkmal , which was created a few years earlier, reminds of Hagen von Tronje and is now located on the banks of the Worms Rhine. The fountain contains elements that are modeled on the Romanesque . The fountain is a cultural monument and is protected under the Rhineland-Palatinate Monument Protection Act.
literature
- Irene Spille: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate 10 = city of Worms. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 1992. ISBN 978-3-88462-084-7
Web links
- Hildebrand's sketches and plans in the holdings of the TUM Architecture Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Worms. ( Memento from June 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Mainz 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] , P. 13 (PDF; 5.0 MB).
- ↑ Fritz Reuter : History of the city of Worms - building history and architectural monuments . Ed .: Gerold Bönnen . 2nd Edition. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 534 .
- ↑ a b Spille: Monument topography , p. 126.
- ↑ a b Volker Gallé : That was the 20th century in Worms - Freiherr Heyl died in Herrnsheim . 1st edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 978-3-86134-807-8 , p. 25 .
- ↑ a b Irene Spille / Otto Böcher : History of the city of Worms - building history and architectural monuments . Ed .: Gerold Bönnen . 2nd Edition. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 786 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '47.4 " N , 8 ° 21' 40.5" E