Arthur crowd fountain

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The fountain with the three water-spouting salmon named after the Hanoverian Mayor Arthur Quantity
Close-up of the salmon figures

The Arthur-Menge-Brunnen is a listed fountain in the southern part of Hanover . The facility in the green area on Vierthalerweg was built on a small bastion near the Döhrener Tower , which is now embedded in the green strip that is closed to motor vehicles and only criss-crossed by bike and footpaths, which connects the Maschsee with the southern Eilenriede . It was the last work of the then 90-year-old sculptor Ludwig Vierthaler and dates from 1964, 1965 or 1966. It was presented in honor of Hanover's Lord Mayor Arthur Quantity (1884–1965) as a gift from the Fritz Behrens Foundation to the citizens of Lower Saxony's state capital.

In addition to the official name, because of the salmon cast as a bronze gargoyle on a ball carved in stone in a round basin, there is also the name jumping salmon for the fountain.

Vierthaler had already modeled the jumping salmon theme for a private garden in 1959 with a similar conception, but on a smaller scale and under the title “Mosaic fountain with fish”.

The Arthur Quantity Fountain is similar to the Pelikan Fountain created by Vierthaler in 1961 . The sculptor also remained true to himself with the three fish bodies formed into a kind of tower: "Up to the end, Vierthaler's stylistic commitment to the symbolic ornamentation of Art Nouveau , which also shaped his artistic youth, is unmistakable."

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Web links

Commons : Arthur-Menge-Brunnen (Hannover)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare Wolfgang Neß : Ortkarte 5/05 Waldhausen 06 Waldheim , In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), part 1, volume 10.1, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 38f .; as well as Südstadt in the addendum to part 2, volume 10.2: List of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation, p. 7ff; here: p. 8
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  7. ↑ a b c Rainer Ertel , Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: Hannoversches Brunnenbuch. Fountains and fountains in Hanover. Exemplary and documentary , Fackelträger-Verlag, Hannover 1988, ISBN 3-7716-1497-X , pp. 16f., 88
  8. ^ Rainer Ertel, Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: Fountain in Hanover: Water features and fountains in their districts , with a contribution by Ludwig Zerull , funded by the Rut and Klaus Bahlsen Foundation , Hanover: Cartoon-Concept Agency and Publishing GmbH, 1998 , ISBN 3-932401-03-4 , p. 6

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 46.2 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 31.5"  E