Nuremberg Bull Portal

by Norma Brandsberg

Title

Nuremberg Bull Portal

Artist

Norma Brandsberg

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

A statue of an ox on the Ochsenportal (Bull portal) on the ancient Fleisch Bridge in the old town of Nuremberg, Germany is especially nice filmed at night with the reflections of the lights anf the highlights of the Ochenportal and bridge nearby. The Latin inscription says:"All things have a beginning and grow, but the ox upon whom you now look was never a calf."


This location marks the site that was once the entrance to the city’s medieval meat market.

From the early Middle Ages to the mid-20th century, meats of all kinds could be purchased here by those citizens with enough money to afford them. Animals would often be dispatched in the market’s slaughterhouse and offal would be thrown by butchers into the Pegnitz river, which no doubt added to the already nauseating stench of the river, through which raw sewage also flowed.

In 1491, a roof and a wooden structure were added to the market. Another century later in the 1570s, the market was housed within the walls of a sturdy sandstone building. The ornate doorway and the oxen statue were built as the entrance to the market in 1599.

The monument became a popular landmark for both citizens of Nuremberg and visiting tourists and in the 19th and early 20th. However, in 1945 the meat market was destroyed by several direct hits from bombs during the Allied bombing campaign of Nuremberg. Sadly the doorway and its iconic oxen statue were badly damaged by shrapnel.

Fortunately, in 1950 both the doorway and the statue were fully restored and repaired by historical conservators.


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November 23rd, 2018

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