St. Johann market fountain
The St. Johanner Marktbrunnen stands on the St. Johanner Markt in Saarbrücken . The fountain is listed as an individual monument.
history
As early as 1556, a bill to the mayor's office of St. Johann mentions stone carving by the sculptor Wolf Schroppen for a fountain in the market. This was replaced in 1602 by a new fountain by Heinrich Kempter . The fountain that is preserved today was built in 1759/60 as the result of a competition based on designs by Ignatius Bischof and Friedrich Joachim Stengel . The sculptural work is by Johann Philipp Mihm , the wrought iron grating by Sontag Bückelmann . The four large basins were inserted around 1880 and replaced in 1930. In their place were originally mussels.
In the 20th century, the fountain was relocated several times in order to cope with the changing traffic routes. After setting up the pedestrian zone on the market, the building was put back in its original place in the converging lines of sight of St. Johanner Markt, Obertorstraße and Saarstraße and placed on a stepped base. The well had to be renovated several times, for example in 1930, 1994 and 2012.
architecture
The eight-sided, curved fountain has four bulges as an outdoor pool. An obelisk adorned with tendrils protrudes from the central basin and is crowned by a vase. The water flows out of four masks and runs through wrought iron pipes into the outdoor pool. A wrought-iron grille with rich decorations runs along the edge of the central basin.
literature
- Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz, Ekkart Klinge (arrangement): Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland . (= Georg Dehio (†): Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, p. 897
- Robert H. Schubart: The fountain on the market square of Saarbrücken-St. Johann (1759/60) and the Fontaine triomphale en Piramide in Nancy (1753/56) . In: Journal for the history of the Saar region , 16, 1968, pp. 248–281
- Walter Zimmermann: The art monuments of the city and the district of Saarbrücken . Unchanged reprint of the original edition from 1932, Association for Monument Preservation in Saarland, Saarbrücken 1975, p. 202
- Ariane Sauer: The ornamental fountain of St. Johann from 1759/60 on the St. Johann market - based on suggestions and specifications from Friedrich Joachim Stengel . In: Journal for the history of the Saar region, 56/57, 2008/09, pp. 121–129
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments of the state capital Saarbrücken ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), p. 148.
- ↑ The fountain at St. Johanner Markt is being restored, ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Saarbrücker Zeitung , October 23, 2012.
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 57.6 ″ N , 6 ° 59 ′ 46.7 ″ E