Chaff bridge
Coordinates: 47 ° 3 ′ 7 " N , 8 ° 18 ′ 6" E ; CH1903: 665.58 thousand / 211569
| Chaff bridge | ||
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| use | Sidewalk | |
| Crossing of | Reuss | |
| place | Lucerne | |
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| Above sea level | 438 m above sea level M. | |
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The Spreuerbrücke is the third covered wooden bridge in the city of Lucerne , alongside the Chapel Bridge and the Hofbrücke, which was demolished in the 19th century .
A first bridge connected the Mühlenplatz on the right bank of the Reuss with the mills in the middle of the river in the 13th century . The continuation to the left bank (Pfistergasse = Bäckerviertel) was not completed until 1408. In the Middle Ages, chaff and leaves were only allowed to be poured into the Reuss from this lowest bridge in the city .
The bridge was largely destroyed in a flood in 1566 and then rebuilt, together with a granary as a bridgehead (the so-called "Herrenkeller").
In the gable fields of the Spreuer Bridge there are still 45 of the original 67 painted wooden panels with a unique dance of death , performed between 1616 and 1637 under the direction of the painter Kaspar Meglinger . It is the most extensive and at the same time the most public of all known dances of death. The triangular panels usually show the coats of arms of the founders at the bottom left and the women's coats of arms of the founders' generation on the right. On the black wooden frame there are explanatory verses and the names of the donors (number of images). The pictures also show portraits of the founders and other representatives of Lucerne society. The Lucerne painters have the pictures of the death by Hans Holbein the Elder. J. knew and also adopted suggestions from it; but their representations are already more advanced in their painting style. The pictures and texts on the Lucerne death tablets are intended to make it clear that there is no place in town, in the country or on the sea where death is not also present. The small bridge chapel " Maria auf der Reuss" is dedicated to Our Lady .
literature
- Josef Brülisauer and others: The Spreuer Bridge in Lucerne: a baroque dance of death of European importance. Raeber Verlag, Lucerne 1996, ISBN 3-7239-0090-9 .
- Rolf Paul Dreier: The Dance of Death - a motif of church art as a projection surface for profane messages (1425–1650) . Leiden 2010, ISBN 978-90-902511-1-0 (including CD-ROM: Directory of the Dances of Death, also on www.totentanz.nl). Especially about the dance of death on the Spreuerbrücke pages 179–216.
- Caspar Meglinger: The dance of death: painting on the mill bridge in Lucerne . Eglin, Luzern 1881. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf .
- The dance of death on the Muhlenbruke at Lucerne . Eglin, Lucerne 1893 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Georg Wehrens: The dance of death in the Alemannic language area. «I have to do it - and don't know what» . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2563-0 , p. 191 ff.
