Stone houses vase

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The stone house vase from 1855 in the Bremer Wallanlagen

The monumental vase by the Bremen sculptor Carl Steinhäuser was set up in the Bremer Wallanlagen near Herdentorsteinweg in Bremen . It is also known as a magnificent vase or a stone house vase . The property has been a listed building since 1973.

description

The magnificent marble vase with its volute-shaped handles rises on a square sandstone plinth. On the cylindrical wall, a train of nude or antique-clad figures develops in relief , carrying two festively wreathed oxen with them. The topic relates to the Bremen custom of the so-called monastery ox train, which can be traced back to 1630 : every year during the Bremen Freimarkt (usually two) fat oxen decorated with ribbons and wreaths were led through the city, a few days later in favor of the poor and hospital in the profane St. John's Monastery to be raffled. The signature indicates the time of origin: C. Steinhäuser Bremanus inven. Berolini 1833. Sculps. Romae 1855 .

C. Steinhäuser, draft, 1833

history

The Bremen-born sculptor Carl Steinhäuser, at that time still an employee in Christian Daniel Rauch's Berlin studio, had already made a corresponding design more than 20 years before it was carried out, which does not yet contain a clear Bremen reference, but also any ancient sacrificial train, such as he is known from Roman reliefs as a suggestion.

The execution, completed in Rome in 1855  , clearly marks a purpose associated with the hometown with the Bremen coat of arms - which is shown hanging on a pillar. Little is known about the history of the contract. In May 1856 the Senate reported that “a number of local art lovers”, led by the entrepreneur and politician Hermann Henrich Meier , had offered the work to the city of Bremen as a gift. Since the donors had not raised the full purchase price, the Senate had to provide an "honorary gift" of 500 thalers to honor the sculptor. After the "Senate Deputation for Public Walks" had chosen the current location, the vase was set up and inaugurated on August 30, 1856.

In 1871 the last cloister ox train took place in Bremen.

The vase as the motif of the garden sculpture comes from baroque garden art; in the 17th and 18th centuries it often marked the intersection of rectangular boundary lines; Here, however, as the English landscape garden had taught, it is used for the cleverly chosen goal of several paths and visual axes.

literature

  • Beate Mielsch: Monuments, free sculptures, fountains in Bremen. 1800–1945 (=  Bremen volumes on cultural policy , volume 3). Schmalfeldt, Bremen 1980, ISBN 3-921749-16-6 , pp. 17 ff., 57, fig. 15-17.

Web links

Commons : Stone Houses Vase  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Statues and their history": The stone houses vase in the ramparts. In: Kreiszeitung, accessed on November 11, 2014.
  2. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  3. ↑ Fig. In: Stadtgrün Bremen (ed.): Between Lust and Walk, 200 years of Bremer ramparts. Temmen, Bremen 2002, p. 216 (without proof of location for the drawing)
  4. ↑ Andreas Kreul: This is how it works in the Weldt. Theophilus Frese and Carl Steinhäuser - garden sculpture and public monument. In: Art and civic glamor in Bremen. Bremen 2000, p. 166 even sees in it that “stone houses in his depiction replace the happy hustle and bustle during the free market parade with a bacchanical hustle and bustle of the doers”.
  5. ↑ z. B. from the Ara of the Vicomagistri, Rome, Vatican Museums ( [1] )

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 43.8 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 37.2"  E