Stoltze fountain
The Stoltze-Brunnen is a fountain on the chicken market in the old town of Frankfurt am Main ▼ . It is a listed building . From 1981 to 2016 he stood on Friedrich-Stoltze-Platz behind the Katharinenkirche ▼ .
description
The Stoltze fountain is a monument in the neo-renaissance style . It was created according to a design by Friedrich Schierholz in honor of the poet and writer Friedrich Stoltze (1816-1891) and was erected in 1892 on the Frankfurt chicken market in the immediate vicinity of Stoltze's birthplace, Zum Rebstock . The inauguration took place on November 2nd, 1895. The freedom fountain, which had previously been on the chicken market, was moved to the Roseneck on the Weckmarkt.
The Stoltze fountain has a tiered structure with a water basin, a fountain shaft made of red Main sandstone with a relief of Francofurtia (copy), above it a bronze bust of the poet. The capital of the column shows figures from Stoltze's works, including David with the cap , the sick man and the red chimney sweep . The motto is carved on the column
"He did not live in vain
. Thanks be to him too, and Sang Who wrapped roses
around the seriousness of life.
"
After the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in 1944, the fountain was removed from the destroyed chicken market. From 1981 to 2016 it was located on Friedrich-Stoltze-Platz behind the Katharinenkirche ▼ .
Relocation to the chicken market
As part of the Dom-Römer project received the fountain in September 2017 again its rightful place on the restored Hühnermarkt ▼ . The Office for Monument Protection had argued against the transfer, but was unable to assert itself.
On the previous location at Friedrich-Stoltze-Platz, the sandstone obelisk of the former White Lily Fountain was erected in November 2017 . In 1794, the sculptor Johann David Voelcker created the classicist pump well for Comoedienplatz . The more than 8 meter high fountain consisted of a fountain basin with four columns, which carried an obelisk with a vase and a golden lily. The elaborately designed fountain was demolished as early as 1831 and its parts were sold. The obelisk was preserved and was in the garden of Hofgut Friedberger Landstrasse 529 until the 1980s. In 1983 the city acquired the obelisk, had it restored and in 1990 placed it on Goetheplatz near its original location. In 2005 it had to give way again for the construction of an underground car park and stood in a municipal depot until it was selected on the initiative of Frankfurt citizens as a replacement for the moved Stoltze fountain.
See also
- List of cultural monuments in Frankfurt's old town
- List of fountains in Frankfurt am Main # Stoltze-Brunnen
literature
- Heinz Schomann , Volker Rödel, Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. (= Materials on monument protection in Frankfurt am Main , Volume 1.) 2nd revised edition (limited special edition). Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7973-0576-1 , p. 46.
- Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Stoltze-Brunnen returns. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , February 23, 2014 ( online )
- Heinz Schomann: The old Frankfurt fountain. Fricke, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-88184-022-2 , p. 90.
- Wendelin Leweke: Frankfurt fountain stories. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-7973-0478-1 , pp. 47-50.
Web links
- Stoltze-Brunnen on the website kunst-im-public-space-Frankfurt.de
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Stoltze-Brunnen In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Stoltze, poems in Frankfurt dialect. 4th greatly increased and improved edition. Frankfurt a. M., Heinrich Keller 1880, pp. 250–256
- ↑ Friedrich Stoltze, Selected Poems and Stories in Frankfurt Dialect. 7th edition, Frankfurt a. M. 1914, pp. 262-269
- ^ Friedrich Stoltze, Collected Works Volume 3: Novellas and Stories in Frankfurt Dialect , 8th Edition, Frankfurt a. M. 1900, pp. 1-77
- ↑ Nicole Brevoord: A Stoltze Square without Stoltze and a fountain without a fountain. In: Journal Frankfurt Nachrichten. November 20, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2018 .
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