The Wittelsbacher well is a monumental well at the northwest edge of the Munich city center. It was established in the years 1893 to 1895 after plans of the sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand in the style of the classicism. Its motive is a Allegorie on the of the element water. Regarding the calm and clear shaping, as also under criteria concerning town construction the well applies as one of the artistically most completed plants of the Bavarian state capital.

History

The Wiederentdeckung of the aesthetic design principles of the classical antique ones in the first half 19. Century brought a back meditation on the well architecture the Renaissance with itself. In the course of the reorganization of the transition between Karl place and Maximiliansplatz, a new well should develop for the today's Lenbachplatz on the remainders of the former Stadtmauer.

Was donated the plant of the municipality Munich, which wanted to appreciate thereby the completion of a new high pressure pipe from the Mangfalltal for the supply of the citizens with drinking water in the year 1883. It wrote 1889 out a competition for the organization of the well, from which the sketches Hildebrands came out as winner draft. The assignment of the order was however attached to the condition, Hildebrand is its second domicile to Munich to shift. After nearly two-year work the exposure of the well took place on 12 June 1895.

For Hildebrand the Wittelsbacher well was first in a set of five monumental city wells. In Munich further wells and other buildings developed in the consequence.

During the Second World War the plant was heavily damaged and repaired after end of war by the sculptor Theodor Georgii. On 3 October 1952 the well was taken again in enterprise.

Architecture

Sketch for the well forms a 25 meter broad enclosure basin. It has the form one to the place expenditure-curved semi-circle. At the rear side the circle drew in, on the left and on the right extends two rectangles the basin. From it the main basin rises in form of a representative rock landscape. Therein a two-story, reliefierte limestone bowl.

The main basin of two monumental plastics from Untersberger yard break marble is flanked, in which the antique topic of the representation of humans and animal appears.

The left shows a young man, riding on a water horse, which gets out of as it were the tides. With both hands it holds a Felsbrocken, with which it sets to the throw. Hildebrand created a Allegorie on destructive Kraft of the water, an allusion on Kraft of the mountain brooks in the source area of the Munich water pipeline with the figure, where they lead still rubble with itself.

The right figure shows a Amazone. It sits on a water animal climbing from the tides. With that linking stretches it for the viewer a bowl with water against. This figure symbol light fruitful and Kraft welfare-bringing of the water, which have it after its restraining and canalization for humans.

Situation

The well is in the state capital Munich at the transition from the Lenbachplatz to the Maximilianplatz. It lies nearby the Bavarian stock exchange and can with the Trambahn be attained as follows:

• Line 19, stop Lenbachplatz
• Line 27, stop Otto route
• as well as with S-/U and Trambahnen at the Karlsplatz/Stachus hold (approx. five minutes to foot)

Enterprise/lighting

The well is around the clock lit up after information of the above ground construction department of the state capital Munich.

Related links

• Hildebrand donation with detailed information about Adolf of Hildebrand
• Information on Muenchen.de
• Small city leader of the faculty for historical and art sciences of the LMU

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