Statues - Hither & Thither

 

Description

Coloured relief depicting a rosebush with a red and a white rose, and behind it the heads of Snow-White and Rose-Red.

Synopsis (from Wikipedia):

Snow-White and Rose-Red are two little girls living with their mother, a poor widow, in a small cottage by the woods. One winter night, there is a knock at the door. Rose Red opens the door to find a bear. At first, she is terrified, but the bear tells her not to be afraid. They let the bear in, and he lies down in front of the fire. Snow-White and Rose-Red beat the snow off the bear, and they quickly become quite friendly with him. In the morning, he leaves trotting out into the woods. The bear comes back every night for the rest of that winter and the family grows used to him. When summer comes, the bear tells them that he must go away for a while to guard his treasure from a wicked dwarf. During the summer, when the girls are walking through the forest, they find a dwarf whose beard is stuck in a tree. The girls rescue him by cutting his beard free, but the dwarf is ungrateful and yells at them for cutting his beautiful beard. The girls encounter the dwarf several times that summer, rescue him from some peril each time and the dwarf is ungrateful each time. Then one day, they meet the dwarf once again. This time, he is terrified because the bear is about to kill him. The dwarf pleads with the bear and begs it to eat the girls. Instead, the bear pays no heed to his plea and kills the dwarf with one swipe of his paw. Instantly, the bear turns into a prince. The dwarf had previously put a spell on the prince by stealing his precious stones and turning him into a bear. The curse is broken with the death of the dwarf. Snow-White marries the prince and Rose-Red marries the prince's brother.

N.B. In English the German names "Schneeweißchen" and "Schneewittchen" are both translated with "Snow-White", although they appear in two unrelated fairy tales.

Grimm-Dich-Pfad

The 'Grimm-Dich-Pfad', fairy tale path, is a trail along sculptures relating to Grimm's fairy tales and other places related to the Grimm brothers. Most of the sculpures were made by Pasquale Ippolito, the later ones (after 2013) by Sergej Fuchs.

The trail has 16 stops, not all are represented on this web site. All stops are listed below:

Von dem Fischer und seine Frau / The Fisherman and His Wife. Der Wolf und die 7 jungen Geißlein / The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats. Froschkönig / The Frog Prince. Krieger'sche Leihbibliothek / Krieger Library. Sterntaler / The Star Money (made by Doris and Florian Conrads). Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot / Snow-White and Rose-Red. Das tapfere Schneiderlein / The Brave Little Tailor. Haus der Romantik / House of Romanticism. Rotkäppchen und der Wolf / Little Red Riding Hood. Schneewittchen / Snow-White. Aschenputtel / Cinderella. Zitat von Jakob Grimm / Quote of Jakob Grimm (see photo at no. 11). Wohnhaus Prof. Savigny / House of Prof. Savigny. Hänsel und Gretel / Hansel and Gretel. Historisches Stadtplan / Historical townplan. Wohnhaus von Jakob Grimm / House of Jakob Grimm.

For a map with the fairy tales figures of the Grimm-Dich-Pfad in Marburg, click here.

See: Marburg-Tourismus, Grimm-Dich-Pfad.
Express Online, 5 March 2009, Märchenhafte Monumente.

Sculptor

• Pasquale Ippolito (Genova 1964), German theater set designer, since 1983 in Gießen, Germany (Information).

Tags

• Town: Marburg
• Kreis: Lkr. Marburg-Biedenkopf
• Land: Hessen
• Country: Germany
• Fairy tale
• Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm
• Grimm-Dich-Pfad
• Ippolito, Pasquale
• Rose-Red
• Snow-White (Schneeweißchen)

Locatie (N 50°48'30" - E 8°46'19") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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