Tauzieher

Tauzieher or " The Tauzieher " is a sculpture made of limestone, which was erected in the years 1910-1911 at the Rheinauhafen in Cologne. It belonged in 1980 to the first cultural monuments, which were asked in Cologne under monument protection.

History

On the occasion of the exhibition of the Association Cologne artist in 1908 in Cologne Flora presented in Charlottenburg resident, but a native of Cologne sculptor Nikolaus Friedrich from a character who was lively appeal in art circles. Considerations to install a greatly enlarged copy on a fancy place in Cologne, led to a collection Cologne art friends. And after the amount thus obtained was not sufficient to permit a municipal subsidy over 10,000 mark, at the meeting of the City Council of 23 March 1910.

The place was chosen on a free surface on the timber market before the new Cologne harbor. The place was still herzurichtende to the right of the swing bridge and walk the Malakoff tower. After it had been started on 21 September 1910, the scaffold structure for the construction of the statue, wrote a local reporter:

" The Herculean naked man is tied to the stake climbed down from the developed ungegliedertem rock and pulls, bent over, the rope up to secure it to the pile. The legs grip the wood and while the right with all the force the big dew emporzureißen sought, the left holds the top firmly at the stake. "

The unveiling of the Tauziehers took place on March 4, 1911. The monument is about 6 ½ feet high, and about twice as large as the original statue of the exhibition in 1908, it takes the base a little more than half. The Tauzieher was the first free-standing sculpture in Cologne's public space.

The unknown author of a poem themed in September 1911, opposition by the naked Tauziehers, with the message symbolized by him that everyone prosperity could work out which works like:

" " Den " Tauzieher " or e schlääche comparison, .... " Now is not joking " sows drop Danish Kaplan, " The " Tauzieher " is only to show you, That prosperity sets with each, the lust and love of work is own! ".... Su näckisch, we just dä Kääl 'll eat, I han yet met anyone on Holzmaat! C. J. " "

Loosely translated:

" " The " Tauzieher " or a bad comparison, ... " Now is not joking ," said the chaplain there on it, " The " Tauzieher " is only to show you, That prosperity sets with each, the lust and love of work is own! " ... So naked, like just the guy is, I have yet to meet on the wood market! " "

Together with the swing bridge and the railing on the quay of Tauzieher was on July 1, 1980 ( No. 66), made ​​according to the only recently entered into force law under monument protection.