Fountain at the White Stone
The Brunnen am Weißen Stein is one of around 150 public fountains in Frankfurt am Main . It was created in 1910 and is located on Eschersheimer Landstrasse in the Eschersheim district of Frankfurt .
description
The fountain at the White Stone consists of three differently sized square fountain bodies made of shell limestone . The water flows from 16 nozzles into the well basin, which consists of plates made of shell limestone. Overall, the fountain measures 2.80 meters high and 2.20 meters wide.
The inscription on the front reads:
"WITH GOD FOR KING AND FATHERLAND"
And on the side:
"WAR MEMORIAL GIVEN
BY
GOTTFRIED KLEINSCHMIDT
ESCHERSHEIM 1910"
history
The fountain at the White Stone was built in 1910 on the initiative of the Frankfurt entrepreneur and patron Gottfried Kleinschmidt . It is dedicated to the fallen soldiers of Eschersheim in the Franco-German War of 1870/71. Before the Second World War , the fountain was also known as the Hercules Fountain (not to be confused with the Hercules fountain in Frankfurt's old town ). At the end of 1945 the fountain lost its original Hercules sculpture.
When the Weißer Stein underground station was built in the 1960s, the fountain was moved a few meters to its current position. Before that he stood in front of the old schoolhouse in Eschersheim. In 2009 the local council 9 had the statue of Hercules reconstructed and put back on the fountain.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 24.9 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 24.2 ″ E