Bull fountain (Dresden)
The bull fountain is a fountain in the Dresden Ostragehege and is located directly at the former main entrance to the slaughterhouse , today the delivery entrance of the Dresden Exhibition Center .
The construction work for a new urban cattle yard and slaughterhouse began in 1906 under the direction of the young city building councilor Hans Erlwein , who had worked on the planning the previous year: his architectural and urban planning concept envisaged a complex of 68 individual buildings, which was more architecturally speaking in the entrance area had rural structures in order to visually reduce the size of the facility. Erlwein envisaged several design elements, including the setting up of sculptures and small sculptures.
Erlwein had planned a fountain for the entrance area, and Georg Wrba was commissioned to build it . Wrba created a fountain with a rectangular granite base with sandstone mounts on a base made of Lusatian granodiorite . On this pedestal stood a bull made of Zöblitz serpentine, facing west . To the north and south of the granite base, two lion heads were attached as a relief, which also serve as a water dispenser, which is dispensed into a semicircular basin and can also be used (albeit to a limited extent) as a trough.
The fountain is 2.95 meters high, the bull sculpture 53 centimeters. The base measures 12 × 25 × 76 centimeters. The granite plinth bears the inscription: THE HEALTH OF OUR BEAUTIFUL CITY OF DRESDEN! 1906-1910 .
The well is operated with drinking water and was mainly in operation until 1980, after which it was dry. In 1997 he was run over in a truck turning maneuver. After securing and storing it, it was rebuilt in 1998. It is not known why - instead of the historical direction of view from 1906/1910 - the bull now looks to the east (instead of, as before the accident, to the west).
In this context, the technical prerequisites for a renewed operation (with drinking water) were created in 1998, but the well was hardly in operation. In 2012, the water supply and technical systems were renewed or repaired, and it has been operational again since October 2012.
See also
literature
- Detlef Eilfeld, Jochen Hänsch: The Dresden fountain book - water in its most beautiful form. Volume II. SV Saxonia Verlag, Dresden undated (2016). ISBN 978-3-944210-75-9 , pp. 106-107.
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 7.9 ″ N , 13 ° 43 ′ 0.1 ″ E