Brückenweibchen - Bonn-Beuel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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argus1972
N 50° 44.102 E 007° 06.854
32U E 366928 N 5622055
The "Brückenweibchen" is a sculpture of a fierce laundress from 1898.
Waymark Code: WMW83A
Location: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Date Posted: 07/22/2017
Views: 8
The sculpture of the "Brückenweibchen" shows a resolute laundress with fierce look and a slipper in the hand ready for a hit or to throw.
In 1898 the figure was made and fastened on the Beuel side on the Rhine bridge (today's Kennedy's bridge) with look to Bonn.
The "Brückenweibchen" was made as a humorous answer to another sculpture, the "Brückenmännchen", which - as a provocation for Beuel - was mounted on the Bonn side of the Rhine in the pillar of an anew established bridge and stretches his butt in the direction of Beuel. The bridge was destroyed in 2. World War, but the statue was saved.
4 years later it was put up on the "Hans-Steger-Ufer" again.
Since 2006 the restored piece of art adorns the new flood control wall on the Rhine shore in Bonn Beuel.
Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Brückenweibchen
Figure Type: Human
Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: unknown
Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 1898
Materials used: freestone
Location: Not listed
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