20 tube fountain
| 20 tube fountain | |
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| place | Altleiningen |
| country |
 Germany
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| use | Water supply to Altleiningen Castle |
| construction time | probably around 1600, today's form 1855 |
| Architectural style | Well chamber, sandstone |
| Coordinates | |
| location | Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 32.8 " N , 8 ° 4 ′ 36.7" E 49 ° 30 ′ 32.8 " N , 8 ° 4 ′ 36.7" E |
The 20-tube fountain is a well system in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Altleiningen in the north-eastern Palatinate Forest . The fountain was probably built around 1600 and originally served to supply water to Altleiningen Castle above . It received its current form in 1855.
geography
The fountain is located in the center of Altleiningen directly south of today's main road and about 80 m to the left above the Eckbach , which has its actual source 4 km upwards and is a left tributary of the Rhine . It absorbs the draining water from the 20-tube fountain, which today provides most of the water flow in the creek. The 23 km long Eckbach-Mühlenwanderweg leads past the fountain and leads from the Eckbach spring in Hertlingshausen down the stream to Dirmstein in the Rhine valley.
investment
The well is fed by the strongest fissure spring in the Palatinate . The water emerges from a fault crevice and is first captured in two large well chambers, in order to then flow out of 20 parallel pipes. The amount of water flow is controlled with a system of damming the groundwater that was very well thought out for the time it was created .
Above the fountain there is a listed sandstone inscription from 1855, when the complex was given its present form; it was reinstalled in the 1980s after a major renovation with partial redesign. The board shows an imaginary dialogue between the hiker (W) and the fountain (B):
See, Wanderer:
God's fountain has water in abundance!
W .: Yes, little fountain, you have plenty of water;
Give everyone a drink who wants to.
B: The rich God gave it to me;
Follow me and you will live like this!
W .: But what is left for me in the end?
B .: A water that will delight you forever.
history
The fountain was created on behalf of the Counts of Leiningen in order to improve the water supply of their ancestral castle Altleiningen and secure it in the long term. There is no evidence of the exact year of construction; historians suspect it was around 1600.
literature
- Daniel Häberle: The fountain of Altleiningen . In: Leininger Geschichtsblätter . 7, 1908, pp. 1-2.
