St. Jakobi Fountain (Bremen)

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Jacobus figure in the Bible garden
Jakobibrunnen in the Jakobikirchhof, photo around 1910

The stone figure of St.  James the Elder (Jacobus major), today placed in the courtyard of the "Glocke" on the south side of Bremen Cathedral , goes back to the Jakobi fountain , which formerly stood in the Jakobikirchhof in the old town. It has been a listed building since 1973.

The fountain, built in 1718 for the public water supply, was crowned with a statue of the apostle Jacobus, who was venerated as the patron saint of pilgrims and is therefore depicted in pilgrim costume: with a broad-brimmed hat, weather coat, pilgrim staff and pilgrim bottle. The current condition of the sculpture hardly allows any conclusions to be drawn about the time it was created. In 1867 the pump was rebuilt, the figure was only restored. In 1906, drunken soldiers toppled it from the pedestal, so that the sculptor Everding made a replica that was smashed again in an air raid in 1944. In 1957, a copy of the copy by Ingeborg Ahner-Siese was placed at the Neanderhaus next to St. Martini , in 1980 the figure that was shattered in World War II was recreated again using a few fragments and placed on a modern base in the inner courtyard of the “bell” .

The statue is a reminder of the veneration of the saint in Bremen, which continued into the post-medieval period. Another stone sculpture of St. James from Bremen from around 1500, but not from a fountain, is exhibited in the Focke Museum . The niche figure from around 1660 on the former packing house at the “Wüsten Stätte” in Schnoor is also post-medieval .

proof

  1. ↑ Not Jacobus minor , as is often read.
  2. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  3. ↑ On the Bremen fountains, see Horst Vogel: Fountains and pumping stations in the city of Bremen . In: water. On the history of the drinking water supply in Bremen . Bremer Landesmuseum, Bremen 1988, pp. 50–66.
  4. ↑ Götz Ruempler: The pilgrim apostle Jacobus major and his relations with Bremen . In: Heimat und Volkstum . 1964/65, pp. 97-104.
  5. ↑ Schwarzwälder, p. 199 rightly doubts the traditional dating back to the Middle Ages. If the state of preservation allows a statement at all, it is untenable for stylistic reasons.
  6. ^ Ingeborg Ahner-Siese: The sculptors of the Bremer Bauhütte . Bremen 1986, p. 48.
  7. ↑ So far the article follows the information in the article by Schwarzwälder cited below.
  8. ↑ Karl Dillschneider: The Schnoor . Bremen 1972, p. 96.

See also

literature

  • Rudolf Stein: Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance architecture in Bremen . Bremen 1962, pp. 205-208.
  • Herbert Black Forest: The St. Jakobi Fountain in Bremen . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 60/61, Bremen 1982, pp. 195-201.
  • Goetz Ruempler: A figure of James in four copies . In: Dom-Nachrichten 1 . 2009, pp. 13-15.
  • Hans Hermann Meyer: Die Bremer Altstadt , Bremen 2003, p. 157 and supplement p. 17 (No. C 008).


Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 30.8 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 32 ″  E