Fountain in Frankfurt (Oder)

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In 2015, there are 18 jewelry fountains in Frankfurt (Oder) owned by the city, of which 13 are in operation. There were more than 50 ornamental fountains in Frankfurt. Besides the public fountains, there are also some well-known private fountains.

Caritas fountain

Caritas fountain with a group of figures by Waldemar Lemke

In Karl-Sobkowski-Strasse, when the district “Am Grünen Weg” was built under the direction of Martin Kießling in 1925, the Caritas fountain ( location ) was built from concrete and a group of statues by Waldemar Lemke made from shell limestone. The group, arranged on a high pedestal, consists of a mother figure and three children surrounding her, caring for the situation according to the naming .

Comic fountain

Comic fountain by Michael Fischer-Art

The comic fountain (actually The East Glows , Location ) was created in 2000 by Michael Fischer-Art from stainless steel and painted figures from glass fiber reinforced plastic (GRP). The fountain was designed with eight sculptures: 1st clock figure 5.20 m, 2nd hand 1 m, 3rd sun 1.95 m, 4th moon 1.95 m, 5th hand 1 m, 6th hand 1 m, 7th figure 2.20 m, 8th figure 2.40 m. The figure towering 5.2 meters in the upper water basin has an integrated analog clock illuminated at night as stylized eyes on the right and left. The pool depth is 50 cm, the water depth 25 cm. Feasibility, water pressure and consumption, pipe and nozzle strengths and the total costs of the water technology project were checked and calculated by graduate engineer Chris Begall from the company Pumpen-Zilius, Berlin. After the large fountain ("Panzersperre") was torn down, the fountain square was to be designed with a fountain system again. It should attract viewers, irritate them in a positive way and inspire the excessively functional space. The theme of the fountain should be elementary principles: sun and moon, sky and earth, masculinity and femininity and the all-connecting dimension of time. They are embodied by brightly colored figures that move on and in the water and are illuminated by halogen chandeliers sunk into the ground.

When the arrangement is waterless, it should not lose any of its charm: the figures are constantly being repositioned by the wind. Twelve, noiselessly movable parts thanks to encapsulated, rustproof ball bearings, and because of their robustness, low-maintenance parts vary the overall ensemble depending on the weather.

Painted stainless steel and GRP should be practically unbendable and largely resistant to all forms of vandalism. The intense colors are intended to prevent sprayers from romping around on such surfaces. The water flow inside the eight metal figures consists of flexible coolant hoses, which are brought into the desired position with specially manufactured stainless steel couplings and connecting pieces. The end pieces from which the water jumps out into the open consist of copper nozzles tapering towards the end.

Seven Ravens Fountain

Seven Raven Fountain by Horst Engelhardt

The Sieben-Raben-Brunnen ( Lage ), created by Horst Engelhardt, stands on the market . The motif is derived from the name of the neighboring building, popularly known as the Seven Ravens . According to the stories, there used to be seven individual houses at the place, but this has been doubted due to excavations. The fountain sculpture is a 3.10 m high tree with seven ravens sitting on it. One of the ravens sits on the top with a golden twig in its beak, two more are fighting a snake and another is holding a fish in its beak. There are also three historical cityscapes, the coat of arms of Frankfurt and portraits of well-known Frankfurters, such as Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Heinrich von Kleist , as well as an owl on a branch and a frog sitting on the drinking water pipe. Outside the actual fountain is the seventh raven and on a boulder the sister of the enchanted brothers, whose left arm forms a wing. The fountain was installed in 2003. The hexagonal water basin is 1.50 m high; the main sculpture 3.10 m. The sculpture of the sister is 1.10 m high and the sculpture of the raven is 60 cm high. The basin is made of sandstone, boulders made of granite were used. The sculptures are made of bronze and were made in the Lauchhammer art and bell foundry .

Alinenbrunnen

Alinenbrunnen

The Alinenbrunnen ( location ) on Stiftsplatz was donated by Aline Jahn in 1887. The fountain is 4 m high and 3 m in diameter. The fountain bowl has a diameter of 6 m and a height of 35 cm. Around the year 2000 the well was renovated with sponsorship money from the local savings bank. However, it was defective again shortly afterwards, so that it could not be put into operation. From 2008, the facility was completely restored using upgrading funds from the urban redevelopment.

Otter fountain

Otter fountain

The otter fountain ( location ) is located on Spiekerstraße at the corner of Bahnhofstraße and was built in 1960 based on a proposal by Wilhelm Neumann (* 1904; † 1996; head of the construction department) based on models by the Frankfurt sculptor Edmund Neutert. A rooster, the city's heraldic animal, and other animals were also up for discussion beforehand. Neutert campaigned for the otter as a motif to erect a memorial to the last living animal in the Klingetal and on the Lienautich. Neutert was able to complete the model in 1958, the sculpture was cast in 1959 and the fountain was built in 1960. Construction workers from the national construction work set up the facility, which was financed at the time from the income from the lottery. In a basin with a square floor plan, clad with natural stone, there is a base on a base plate. On the pedestal stands a bronze figure of an otter looking back over his left shoulder to the south. The figure is 80 cm high and the base is 44 cm wide, 37 cm high and 44 cm deep. Pipes from which water runs into the basin protrude from the four sides of the base. The well was no longer filled with water after 2000. During extensive reconstruction work in 2008/09, the basin was renewed and the sculpture in the Lauchhammer art and bell foundry was given a new patina, but initially no sponsor was found for his company. The Chamber of Crafts has financed the operation of the fountain since 2009.

Ibex Fountain

Ibex fountain by Hans Bernoulli and Adolph Amberg

The Steinbockbrunnen ( Lage ) was donated by the paper manufacturer Paul and his wife Marie Steinbock on November 28, 1911 on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary . Steinbock was the owner of Paul Steinbock Papier- und Zellulosefabrik AG in Sandow . The trough fountain made of granite and bronze was inaugurated on November 29, 1912 or 1913 on the Oberkirchplatz next to the Nippehaus (city library since the 21st century, 1932). The architect Hans Bernoulli designed the fountain based on a design by one of the sons of the Steinbock couple and the sculptor Adolph Amberg created the bronze figure and the plastic jewelry. The figure on the column symbolizes the Oder. In her left hand she holds a fish as a symbol of the wealth of fish in the Oder and in her right a cloth as a symbol of the waves of the water that carried the wealth into the city on boats. On the back of the column there is a relief of an ibex. The column with the bronze figure is 7 m high; the figure itself has a height of 1.80 m; the octagonal fountain basin is 1.80 m wide. For more information see theEntry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg .

Clock and seasons fountain

Clock and seasons fountain by Georg Fürstenberg

The clock and seasons fountain ( location ) was inaugurated on September 6, 1936 on Leipziger Platz. Georg Fürstenberg (* 1884; † 1974) created the templates for it as early as 1935. The client was the Beresinchen district association , which financed the construction from donations from the citizens. The pillar with a square base shows a sower to the north , who symbolizes spring, to the south a reaper for the summer, to the west a vintner for the autumn and to the north a lumberjack for the winter. Around the fountain you can read: "Use the time - because it escapes - like trickling water - into the sea of ​​eternity". In 1997 the fountain was restored.

Fountain of life

Well life of Christian Schulze

The fountain Leben ( Lage ) in Karl-Marx-Straße made of sandstone and bronze was created in 1987 in Christian Schulze's studio. The total height is 2.80 m; the trough measures two by two meters and is 85 cm high.

drinking fountain

Drinking fountain by Ernst Roehl

The drinking fountain ( location ) in the Große Scharrnstraße was made by Christian Roehl . The fountain is four meters high and has a 16-sided fountain basin. In 1986, City Councilor Werner Mandel (* 1937; † July 4, 2014) signed the contract with Roehl for the manufacture of the fountain on behalf of the City Council. The interim acceptance took place in December 1987, the final acceptance in May 1988 and the inauguration of the fountain on June 22, 1988, two days after the end of the 22nd Workers' Festival in the Frankfurt (Oder) district . It cost 38,000  marks in material and 45,000 marks in artist fees. No water has flowed from the well since around 2000.

Oderland fountain

Oderland fountain by Friedrich Stachat

In Franz-Mehring-Straße there is a fountain designed by Friedrich Stachat ( Lage ). The fountain is circular with a 20 centimeter high concrete rim. Inside the circle there are field stones which are supposed to symbolize the Oder landscape. Stachat had planned to build another sculpture, Children's World , in the middle of the fountain . For reasons of cost, this was not done. Around the fountain there are further field stones which are intended as seating. In 1982, after a long planning phase, the fountain was built in its current location.

Fontane fountain

Fontane fountain

The Fontane fountain ( Lage ) in Gubener Strasse in front of the retirement home was designed from bronze and ceramic by the sculptor Hans Henning and the ceramist Manfred Wenck and installed in 1984. The bronze ribbon shows rural motifs from the Mark Brandenburg. Reapers mow grain, a shepherd with his flock, a fisherman in his boat, hunters hunting deer, a party with people eating, making music and dancing. In between there is a quote from Theodor Fontane : “Only the foreigner teaches us what we have about our homeland.” Of the 77,000  marks that the fountain cost, 60,000 marks were donated by Berta Wimmer, who lived in the home at the time.

Cooperative well

Cooperative well

The cooperative fountain ( Lage ) in Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße was built in 1928 in honor of Hugo Methner. The carpenter Hugo Methner (* 1872; † September 24, 1921) had worked as a trade union secretary in Frankfurt (Oder) from 1898, from 1908 one of the first five social democratic representatives in the city council and from 26 November 1918 the first social democratic city councilor in Frankfurt. The red brick fountain was renovated between 1993 and 1998.

Craftsman's fountain

Craftsman's fountain
Craftsman's fountain

In 1937 the craftsman's fountain was built in the workshop of the Frankfurt master stonemason Georg Fürstenberg. As part of a redesign, it was set up on a site on Spiekerstraße ( Lage ) with training facilities and a leisure and recreation park.

In a well basin there is a 1 m high pedestal made of shell limestone with a well bowl. On the four sides of the round pedestal, four craftsmen with their characteristic activities were figuratively carved out of the stone. You can see a blacksmith, a carpenter, a baker and a shoemaker. A text band runs around the fountain with the quote from Goethe : “Handicraft is the work of the hand, inspired by the heart, guided by the mind.” The water rises in the fountain bowl in a small fountain and flows out of four between the images attached gargoyles in the fountain basin. The well basin weighs 5.5 tons, the pedestal 1.5 tons and the upper well ring 0.2 tons. A circulation pump circulates 60 liters of water per hour in the well.

In 1945 a bomb hit a neighboring house. Falling debris damaged the well. During clearing work it was recovered from the rubble and stored. The well was renovated in the 2010s in the inter-company training center (ÜAZ) on Frankfurt's Erlengrund under the guidance of Stephan Golz. At the end of May 2020, the craftsmen's fountain could be set up again at the old location. The fountain was inaugurated on August 26, 2020.

Blade Well

On May 24, 2014, the craftsman and artist Bernd Mathias Walden (* 1963) inaugurated the Klingebrunnen ( Lage ) on the grounds of the Gerstenberger Höfe. The well consists of found materials such as field stones and bricks. It refers to the Klinge brook, which flows into the Oder a few meters away (piped for several years). In the 18th century there were six mills on the blade, the miniature models of which are built into the fountain. Every 17 minutes a pump fills a water seesaw, two bells are struck and the mill wheels turn for five minutes.

Drip well

Drip fountain 1978
Bowl of the drip fountain 2015

The Tröpfelbrunnen (today's location ) was created in 1969 by Werner Voigt. In a bowl made of copper sheet on three feet about 30 cm high stood three 1.50 m high poles with horizontally rotating rollers of different heights. The rollers were decorated with motifs cut into copper sheet. The water trickled from the lower edge of the rollers into the fountain bowl. In the 1980s, the fountain was moved from its location at the confluence of Rosengasse and Karl-Marx-Straße to the opposite side of Karl-Marx-Straße. In 2001 the rods and rollers damaged by vandalism were dismantled. Only the shell is left.

More wells

  • Flat stone fountain (also pillow fountain , floor fountain ) in Promenadengasse ( location )
  • Ladle fountain at Kellenspring (operation since 2009 financed by Märkische Oderzeitung) ( location )
  • Source , course and mouth on the Ziegenwerder ( location )
  • Cascade in Lennépark ( location )
  • Fountain in Lennépark ( location )
  • Angerbrunnen in Lindenstrasse ( location )
  • Wasserband on Dresdener Platz ( location )
  • Drinking fountain on the Aurora Hill ( location )
  • Mühlenbrunnen on Kommunardenweg ( location )
  • Stasi fountain in Robert-Havemann-Strasse ( location )
  • Fountain in the Altstadt-Passage ( location )
  • Fountain at the Frankfurt (Oder) Clinic ( location )
  • Fountain at the Villa Trowitzsch Frankfurt (Oder)

  • Flat stone fountain in Promenadengasse

  • Ladle well

  • Cascade in Lennépark

  • Water band on Dresdener Platz

  • Water fountain on the aurora hill

  • Mill fountain on Kommunardenweg

  • Stasi fountain in Robert-Havemann-Strasse

  • Fountain in the old town passage

  • Fountain at the Villa Trowitzsch

  • Angerbrunnen, 2018

Worn wells

  • Town hall fountain at Bischofstrasse at the corner of Große Oderstrasse
  • Fountain with concrete balls in the Promenadengasse
Worn fountain at Bischofstrasse

Large fountain in the fountain square

The fountain, also known as "Panzersperre" because of its shape, or "Krauses Panzersperre" after Mayor Fritz Krause, was built in 1976/77 as part of the redesign of what was then Central Square (now Brunnenplatz). The design came from city architect Manfred Vogler. The landscape architect Rainer Zeletzki designed the green area. An originally planned extensive green area was not implemented. Rows of trees were planted above the fountain and three round beds were arranged, the shape of which caused great astonishment. The gigantic gargoyle was designed and built by experts from VEB Wassertechnik Dresden based on plans for the fountain on Independence Square in Tashkent . The fountain was 63 m long and 20 m wide. An hourly 4,400 m³ of water rushed through 400 nozzles arranged in two rows. The fountains rose up to 4 m high and poured into the lower well basin, which was 7 m lower. In addition, there were four groups with 50 nozzles each, from which gently rising fountains sprang. The fountain, inaugurated in 1977, could be accessed via walkways made of granite slabs. The operating costs amounted to 5,000  GDR marks a day , i.e. around 850,000 marks per season. The high financial outlay, but also the enormous noise pollution of residents and office tenants from roaring water and roaring technology, were cause for criticism after the fall of the Wall . The well was no longer turned on in 1992. A year later, the two fountain basins were converted into flower boxes. The facility was finally demolished in 1999.

Web links

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Individual evidence

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