Wunsiedler Brunnenfest

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The Wunsiedler Brunnenfest is a traditional festival that takes place annually in the city of Wunsiedel (district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge ) on the Saturday and Sunday before Midsummer (June 24th).

overview

For the fountain festival, the city's 35 fountains are festively decorated and illuminated when night falls . Singers and musicians move from fountain to fountain and serenade each one. Locals and guests accompany them or hike in small groups through the city center, which is closed to traffic on these days, to visit the individual fountains and enjoy the harmony of water To delight blossoms and light. According to the mayor, “thousands of visitors come every year” and it is “next to the Luisenburg Festival (the) most important advertising medium” for the place.

history

The Wunsiedler Brunnenfest has a long history, although the year of origin is not known exactly. There is a legend that once in a hot summer the pipe wells in the streets of the city had dried up and people and cattle suffered great shortages as a result. When the water returned, wreaths were tied in thanks and the fountains were decorated with them. What was not known at the time is the fact that it was a revival of an ancient pagan custom. Once it was believed all over Europe that the spirits of springs and waters could be favored by offering them fresh flowers in a magical form.

It was the bourgeoisie who tied the wreaths of flowers for the water dispensers from year to year on the eve of St. The city authorities, on the other hand, did not like to see such old customs and repeatedly tried to prevent “cleaning the wells”, but they did not succeed. The residents of the individual wells formed well communities and competed with each other in decorating the water boxes. On June 24, 1879, a report from the six offices appeared in the local newspaper Bote, which read: “Yesterday, Midsummer Eve, different people competed on the conventional lighting and decoration of all local public fountains ... Since the evening was a very beautiful one, there was also a very large crowd moving in the streets, moving from one fountain to another ”. When the high-pressure water pipeline was set up in the city in 1899, the citizens forced the old pipe boxes to remain on the old streets. Even today, wells are built in public buildings or in private houses.

The fountain in the city of Wunsiedler

Fountain in Siegmund-Wann-Strasse
Wilma fountain
Fountain in Kemnather Strasse
  • Marktplatz fountain in front of the town hall
  • Jean-Paul-Brunnen near the Protestant church
  • Friedensbrunnen in Maximilianstrasse
  • Museum fountain in the courtyard of the Fichtelgebirgsmuseum
  • Sparkasse fountain in front of the entrance to the Sparkasse Hochfranken-Wunsiedel
  • Fountain in Egerstrasse
  • Fountain at the Sigmund-Wann-Realschule (Nordendstraße)
  • Bahnhofsbrunnen north of Sechsämterlandstrasse
  • Karl-Schmidt-Brunnen in the Sechsämterlandstrasse
  • Bezirksamtbrunnen in Bezirksamtstrasse
  • Well at the State Business School
  • Hofbrünnlein in the courtyard south of Bezirksamtstrasse
  • Brunnenbuberl on Sechsämterlandstrasse / Maximilianstrasse
  • Brunnenmäderl on Sechsämterlandstrasse / Maximilianstrasse
  • Fountain on Luitpoldplatz
  • Fountain in Sigmund-Wann-Strasse
  • Angle fountain
  • Fountain in Feldstrasse
  • Koppetentorbrunnen west of the Koppetentor
  • Wilma fountain at the grammar school
  • Fountain at the high school
  • Fountain in the courtyard of the high school
  • Fountain in Koppetentorstraße east of the Koppetentor
  • Gabelmannsbrunnen on the Gabelmannsplatz
  • Rainbow fountain at Ludwig-Hacker-Platz
  • Fichtelgebirgsbrunnen in front of the entrance to the district office
  • Künzelsbrunnen at the old market
  • Professional fountain at the Hagebau market (was dismantled and will no longer be renewed)
  • Well Mother Earth in the school center Stein / Marktredwitzer Straße
  • Chestnut fountain on the street Am Bahnhof
  • Queen Luise Fountain at the former König car dealership in Luisenburgstrasse
  • Student dormitory fountain on Bergstrasse
  • Foundlingsbrunnen wash park Fichtelgebirge / Kemnather Straße
  • Well at the furniture store Unglaube
  • Fountain in the garden of the city of Volterra
  • Tin fountain
  • Ottoman fountain at the district office
  • Cattle trough on Markus-Zahn-Allee
  • Saint Elisabeth Fountain
  • Fountain in the station park

Every well, whether originally built to supply the population with water or in a modern design as an ornamental well , has its own story.

literature

  • Ludwig Hacker: History of the city of Wunsiedel . 1927, p. 91-105 .
  • Ludwig Vetter: The Wunsiedler fountain celebration . In: The Seven Star 1959 . S. 30-33 .
  • Elisabeth Jäger: The fountain festival in Wunsiedel . In: The narrator from Gabelmannsplatz . June 16, 1960.
  • Elisabeth Jäger: The fountain festival in Wunsiedel . In: The narrator from Gabelmannsplatz . May 28, 1966.
  • Elisabeth Jäger : Wunsiedel 1810–1932. III. Volume of a history of the city of Wunsiedel . Self-published by the city of Wunsiedel, 1983, p. 180-186 .
  • Dietmar Herrmann, Helmut Süssmann: Fichtel Mountains, Bavarian Vogtland, Steinwald, Bayreuther Land. Lexicon . Ackermannverlag, Hof (Saale) 2000, ISBN 3-929364-18-2 .
  • City of Wunsiedel (Hrsg.): Leaflet of the city of Wunsiedel . (about the fountain festival).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Opening of the 2011 Brunnenfest (PDF) 2011, p. 7 , accessed on December 31, 2016 .
  2. ^ Hermann Kirchhoff: Christian customs: festivals and customs in the annual cycle . 2nd Edition. Kösel, 1995, ISBN 3-466-36416-7 , pp. 249 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 31, 2016]).
  3. ^ Marianne Waas-Frey: Old customs, happy festivals: between Flensburg and Oberstdorf, Aachen and Bayreuth . Mairs Geographischer Verlag, 1984, OCLC 214990249 , p. 53 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 31, 2016]).
  4. ^ Sources and wells in the Fichtel Mountains. Bayern-Fichtelgebirge.de, accessed on December 31, 2016 .