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Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2008, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge side view of the bridge

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2022, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge oblique view from the southwest

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2013, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge Front view

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2013, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge oblique view from the northwest

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2014, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge 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 with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2022, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge 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 with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2013, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge 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 with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2013, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge Head of the ox, side view

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2022, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge Corinthian half-columns, above beams with egg-shaped rod

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2022, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge Mask keystone

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2022, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge Scrollwork and fittings with fruit garland on the river side of the portal

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2013, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge Scrollwork and fittings with fruit garland on the river side of the portal

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2013, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge Image comparison with gable detail of the rear building of the Pellerhaus (1605 - 1607)

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2022, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge Scrollwork and fittings with fruit garland on the river side of the portal, detail

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2022, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge Gate system, rear

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2022, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge Back of the ox, oblique view from below

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2022, Theo Noll

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge Connecting piece of scrollwork and fittings with "ox eye" between gate and bridge

Portal with oxen on the meat bridge

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

Location: Nuremberg, Hauptmarkt 1, Fleischbrücke

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Zentgraf, Emil

photo 2022, Theo Noll

Hans
Werner

Further works

Mengersdorf-Epitaph
Mengersdorf-Epitaph
Epitaph for Hieronymus Kress von Kressenstein
Epitaph for Hieronymus Kress von Kressenstein
Portal with oxen on the meat bridge
Portal with oxen on the meat bridge
High Altar
High Altar
Wilhelm von Streitberg and his wife Anna
Wilhelm von Streitberg and his wife Anna

Emil
Zentgraf

Further works

Fountain system
Fountain system
Portal with oxen on the meat bridge
Portal with oxen on the meat bridge
Protective Cloak Madonna
Protective Cloak Madonna
Fortuna
Fortuna
Bridal stairs
Bridal stairs
Mary with the baby Jesus
Mary with the baby Jesus
Elephant
Elephant
Bather
Bather
Expellees and emigrants
Expellees and emigrants

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