Fountain on Town Hall Square

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Fountain on the square in front of the town hall, in the background the administration building of the Sparkasse

The fountain on Rathausplatz in Saarbrücken was created at the end of the 1950s and is a listed building.

history

The fountain was built in 1959/60 on the triangular square in front of the Sparkasse administration building. It was donated by the Saarbrücker Kreissparkasse on the occasion of the city's 50th anniversary. The Sparkasse had announced a competition for this. This was won by a design by the architect Hans Ulrich and the artist Max Mertz.

description

Bronze sculpture in the center of the fountain

The circular fountain bowl was made of granite. In the middle, the bronze statue “Rising Phoenix” rises on a round concrete base. Three pillars protrude from the inner well shell and unite in the lower quarter of the sculpture. From here they rise like a bud and are connected inside by flaming connecting bridges in the style of late Gothic tracery. The flaming gothic form refers to the architectural forms of the neo-late Gothic town hall St. Johann von Georg von Hauberrisser in a modern design language . The three arms stand for the unification of the three founding cities St. Johann, Burbach-Malstatt and Saarbrücken in 1909. The fountain sculpture was cast by the Malstatter red and brass foundry Martin Luck. The jets of water rising diagonally from the walls of the well originally met in the center of the mandorla and then fell into the inner well basin. From here they poured into the large basin, from which medium-sized spring fountains rose, which were illuminated at night. The water features were out of order for a long time and are now only slightly bubbling.

literature

  • Jo Enzweiler (Hrsg.): City architecture art of the late 19th century: Town hall and town hall square in Saarbrücken . Institute for Current Art in Saarland, Saarlouis
  • Jo Enzweiler (ed.): Fountain in Saarbrücken , Institute for Current Art, Saarbrücken 1995
  • Bastian Müller: Post-war architecture in Saarland . Landesdenkmalamt Saar, Saarbrücken 2011, p. 68

Web links

Commons : Brunnen am Rathausplatz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saarbrücken sub- monument list ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , List of monuments of the Saarland, Landesdenkmalamt Saar, p. 141 (PDF)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  2. ^ Jo Enzweiler (ed.): Well in Saarbrücken. Institute for contemporary art in Saarland at the Saar College of Fine Arts, Saarbrücken 1995, p. 44.
  3. ↑ Without author: Saarbrücken, Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow. Saarbrücken 1966, pp. 176-177.

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 6.2 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 50.3 ″  E