1599
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2008, Theo Noll
1599
side view of the bridge
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2022, Theo Noll
1599
oblique view from the southwest
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2013, Theo Noll
1599
Front view
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2013, Theo Noll
1599
oblique view from the northwest
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2014, Theo Noll
1599
Ox with inscription (from Latin: Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here has never been a calf).
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2022, Theo Noll
1599
Ox with inscription (from Latin: Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here has never been a calf).
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2013, Theo Noll
1599
View of the "Ox in front of the town hall" from the southwest, the rounded back is clearly visible with a flowing transition from the tip of the tail to the tip of the horn
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2013, Theo Noll
1599
Head of the ox, side view
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2022, Theo Noll
1599
Corinthian half-columns, above beams with egg-shaped rod
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2022, Theo Noll
1599
Mask keystone
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2022, Theo Noll
1599
Scrollwork and fittings with fruit garland on the river side of the portal
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2013, Theo Noll
1599
Scrollwork and fittings with fruit garland on the river side of the portal
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2013, Theo Noll
1599
Image comparison with gable detail of the rear building of the Pellerhaus (1605 - 1607)
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2022, Theo Noll
1599
Scrollwork and fittings with fruit garland on the river side of the portal, detail
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2022, Theo Noll
1599
Gate system, rear
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2022, Theo Noll
1599
Back of the ox, oblique view from below
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2022, Theo Noll
1599
Connecting piece of scrollwork and fittings with "ox eye" between gate and bridge
Portal on the bridge from 1599; profiled with mask keystone and Corinthian half-column order (acanthus leaves in the spandrels), above it a bronze inscription plate with volutes and a stone sculpture of an ox renewed in 1951 (made by Emil Zentgraf) with a Latin distich inscription in Antiqua OMNIA HABENT ORTUS SUAQUE IN CREMENTA SED ECCE QUEM CERNIS NUNQUAM BOS FUIT HIC VITULUS. (Everything has its origin and beginning, but look, the ox that you see here was never a calf.) In the spandrel to the bridge parapet, there is a mighty volute and cartouche work with a fruit garland. (...) (Short inventory, The City of Nuremberg, ed. Michael Petzet and Tilmann Breuer, Munich 1977) In 1650, Johann Klaj wrote the following lines about the ox: I praise the ox here, who on the stone bridge press the head of the stone gate with his heavy back in life size; the cow runs to him and calls her husband with repeated mooing; The butcher himself cries out whether one of the herd has escaped him during the fight, as happened, his dog, who is chasing him, is barking. The traveler stands still, contemplating in his mind what the verse means: Everything here must be healed through growth, the ox that you see has never been a calf.Feedback geben
photo 2022, Theo Noll
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