The chair man well in Hamburg district the Altona (to 1938 independent city Altona/Elbe) is an impressive, mehrfigurige well plant with Wasserspiel (inaugurated at Whitsuntide 1900); it stands today on the place of the republic, for the central green belt between city hall, museum and station Altonas.

Founder and name giver

Ludwig chair man (* 10 February 1797 in new mills, "† 30. March 1872 in Nice; Burial place on the Altonaer cemetery at the thief pond) was founder and director of the Altonaer gas and institute for water AG, whose gas works besides on its private property at the Elbufer was established. 1869 it bequeathed to its "“father city Altona"” by will approximately 75,000 Marks of Courant with the regulation to finance from this Legat a new tower for the Ottenser Christian church, an urban Leichenhaus, a public garden as well as a jumping well. The well should after the will of the founder at the west side of the Palmaille, between which station and the steeply dropping Geesthang receive, its location.

Planning and building

Only by the misalignment of the Altonaer of station northward and the change of the old building to the new city hall of the city (1898 open) however - 25 years after chair man death - with the emperor place a representative location for the well developed. The competition for a "“monumental, artistically meaning well plant"”, written out Germany far by the Altonaer municipal authorities, won the citizen of Berlin sculptor Paul (1859-1944) with its model "“fight"” against by far namhaftere competition (among other things Eberlein, house man, Dittler, Hosaeus). In December 1897 mayor Otto Giese gave the construction contracts; the citizen of Berlin coppersmith Otto Bommer manufactured plastics for the well after model and under its supervision.

Technically it acts with the figures around a hollow construction out of 2 mm strong copper sheet with welded seams on an iron stand; only the Echsen is poured in bronze. All structural and financial adversities to the defiance the chair man well was inaugurated on 1 June 1900.

Sculpture and symbolism

From large, oblongen basins with low verge and underground Brunnenkammer rock a seven one half meter high group of figures rises 10 times 20 meters on a small, in which two Zentauren struggle for an enormous fish, which stands out upward between them; one of the two arguing seems turned out in the Straucheln and threatens to be subject (picture). On landings at the pond edge by far smaller water inhabitants (triton, Nereide and Echsen) surround the fighting and speien indignant strong water jets on these intruders; from the muzzle fish rises the of the well contested meter high upward.

This sculpture becomes generally as Allegorie on the long competition between the neighbour cities Altona and Hamburg in fishing and - processing, with which straight around the turn of the century Altona had the nose in front, but beyond that also on in 16 already understood. Century "“disputatiousness beginning"” of Hamburg, which did not find its end from view of many Altonaer with Altonas incorporation by any means, but in a certain neglect by the senate into the present continues.

Changes in 20. Century

1978 were shifted the chair man well on a sloping ramp into the again created southern entrance to the underground rapid-transit railway yard, where he stood under site level and so that was perfectly robbed of his monumental effect. Also its water gushed ever more rarely from cost reasons. Since this time citizens and local media used themselves again and again for a repair and a misalignment of the well.

Since beginning of the 1990er years existed acute collapse danger: because the outer skin with the last intensive restoration (1951) to much place damage and the internal complete corrode be, Hamburg senate for the reorganization however no means make available want, the well in a impact live. In the consequence various activities began for the rescue of the work of art, in which beside local enterprises also district meeting and district office leaders in Altona took part: they approved veiling lasting for weeks of the Altonaer of city hall with the advertising tarpaulin of a local resident brewery for a 50.000-Mark-Spende. The well figures could be diminished 1998 and be renewed on the area of a large of Hamburg copper enterprises In addition some meters south a new aboveground location was prepared, on which the well stands since the year 2000 again in old splendour.

Since spring 2005 the well with darkness lit up (and thus the next to last part of the Stuhlmann' will fulfilled - the Altonaer Stadtwappen is missing still), and also the water for the next years to gush will be able. These costs were likewise applied by private Therefore it is called with manch' older Altonaer also "“falling man well - the senate did not to it-pay Marks"”.

Literature

• Hans Ehlers: From Altonas past. Altona 1926 (VGHA)
• Renata Gobert: The building and art thinking marks of the free ones and Hanseatic city Hamburg. Volume II: Altona Elbvororte. Hamburg 1959 (C.Wegner)
• Quarter archives Ottensen registered association/donation care of monuments Hamburg (Hg.): The chair man well. Symbol and landmark in the heart Altonas. Hamburg 2000 and Galitz) ISBN 3-933374-72-3
• Christoph Timm: Altona old part of town and - north. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Hamburg 1987 (Christians) ISBN 3-7672-9997-6

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