Henner und Frieder, Bronze statue group in Siegen, Germany
Henner und Frieder are two bronze figures depicting a miner and a smelter standing opposite each other at the Oberstadtbrücke. The sculptures display careful craftsmanship and form part of Siegen's central urban landscape.
The statues were created in 1902 by sculptor Friedrich Reusch and were first shown at an industrial trade exhibition in Düsseldorf. They were later given to Siegen, where they have remained part of the city ever since.
The figures represent real workers who labored in this region. They show how important work was to the people living here and how communities depended on these trades.
The two figures stand facing each other on the Oberstadtbrücke, the bridge linking Siegen's upper and lower town, where they were placed on 10 September 2015. Visitors reach the bridge on foot from the surrounding streets; the figures are mounted on the bridge itself, not at street level below.
The sculptor Friedrich Reusch began work on the figures in 1889, thirteen years before their 1902 debut. The models were two workers from the Sieghütter Hammerwerk, Phillip Hüttenhain of Seelbach for the miner and Friedrich Bingener of Dreis-Tiefenbach for the smelter, each paid 50 marks.
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