Concrete fountain sculpture, Christoph Haerle *1958

In 2005, the Zurich sculptor and architect Christoph Haerle created this fountain. It is supposed to represent an eye filled with tears. In doing so, it commemorates a tragic event at the then inn "Zum staubigen Hüetli". At the carnival on January 24, 1639, the controversial colonel, who was called Jörg, Jürg, Georg or even Gieri Jenatsch, was murdered at this spot in today's Chur Poststrasse. In the eyes of many followers, Jürg Jenatsch was considered the savior of Graubünden in the Thirty Years' War. Only a few hours after the murder, the victim was buried in the cathedral in the same clothes he had worn on the night of the murder. What exactly happened at the feast on that carnival night is still not completely clear. The investigation of the perpetrators and especially of their backers was probably not in the interest of the powerful people of that time. While the historiography of the 17th to 19th centuries was predominantly critical of Jenatsch, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer elevated him to a heroic figure of the Grisons' striving for freedom and independence in his novel "Jürg Jenatsch".

The blue fountain "Lukrezia's Tears" in the Poststrasse is dedicated to the Meyerian novel character Lukrezia, who mourned the murdered Jürg Jenatsch as his lover. Lucretia, however, was in fact called Elisabeth von Planta and was the daughter of Pompey von Planta, an adversary of Jürg Jenatsch.



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