List of wells in Heilbronn
The list of fountains in Heilbronn shows the fountains in the city of Heilbronn that are significant and worth seeing because of their architecture or history. The list does not claim to be exhaustive and only takes into account wells in the core city without the incorporated districts. Other art and cultural monuments or artistically designed objects in the cityscape are listed in the list of buildings , monuments or sculptures in Heilbronn .
List of wells
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| Seven-tube fountain | 1541/1904 | The fountain, originally called the Kirchbrunnen , was built around 1541 by Balthasar Wolff . The fountain presumably contained the source that gave the city of Heilbronn its name. In 1809 the historic fountain structure was destroyed by vandals. When further wells were drilled in the area as industrialization began , the well dried up. In 1868 the sporadically flowing spring outlet was diluted and the well completely demolished. In 1904 the fountain was reconstructed at a slightly offset location based on the fragments and old illustrations. The fountain was badly damaged in the air raid on Heilbronn in December 1944, and the subsequent reconstruction was largely based on the reconstruction from 1904. |
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| Cäcilienbrunnen | 1589 | When the Heilbronn Council had the Silchenbrunnen redesigned, which was located in the south-east of the city, master builder Hans Stefan built a new two-story stone fountain house in 1589, which has also been called Cecilia fountain since the 17th century . The water from the well was led into the city via a 2.5 km long, wooden pond pipe , where it supplied around 30 cisterns and six wells. The Cäcilienbrunnen was the most important facility for the city's water supply until the municipal waterworks were built in 1875. |
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| Hafenmarktbrunnen | 1593/1955 | The fountain at the harbor market was built by Jakob Müller in 1593 . The early modern fountain was destroyed in the air raid on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944 , and in 1955 the Stuttgart sculptor Ernst Yelin created a new fountain that, like the historical fountain, shows Saint George fighting the dragon. The well box has the shape of a three-part rosette. |
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| Fleinertorbrunnen | 1591/1601 | The fountain column was created in 1601 by Jakob Müller with a statue of Fortuna , the ornaments on the fountain case come from the 18th century. The well was fed with water from the Cäcilienbrunnen via a wooden pipe . The name of the fountain is reminiscent of the medieval Fleiner Gate on the road to Flein . The figure on the fountain column has been replaced several times, the current statue is by Karl Federlin from 1904. |
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| Feel well | 1795/1858 | The Pfühlbrunnen goes back to a spring set in 1795, which was framed in 1858 and supplemented with stone benches. In 1905 the complex was completed by planting a linden tree. Behind the Pfühlbrunnen is the Pfühlpark , which was laid out in 1909 . |
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| Fountain at Villa Rauch | ? | Fountain on the garden wall of Villa Rauch, built in 1811/12. |
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| Head fountain | 1880 | The topper well is part of the 1879 to 1898 from Verschönerungsverein Heilbronn built Köpfer wells and is from Köpfer stream fed. The fountain and the hermit hermitage behind it were once created by the Friends of Nature Association Waldbrüder , the Heilbronn Beautification Association later replaced the originally wooden one with a stone one. The fountain is adorned with a verse of Virgil : Fortunatus seine Deos qui novit agrestes (Happy is he who knows the gods in the woods and fields, Georgica II, 493 ). |
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| Renner fountain | 1910 | The Renner fountain was built in 1910 opposite the Jägerhaus in a complex that is designed as a symbolic gate to the city forest, it probably goes back to the Molkenbrönnlein , which is said to have been near the Jägerhaus quarry as early as the 18th century. It is named after Karl Renner , the fire brigade commander of many years in Heilbronn , and was not fed from a spring, but from tap water. The water supply was often blocked as early as the 1970s, and the well is now dry. |
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| Grape (esser) fountain | 1953 | The fountain, which stood on Uhlandplatz until 2016, was created in 1953 by Maria Fitzen-Wohnsiedler and the sculptor Gräßle. When Uhlandplatz was redesigned in 2016, it was dismantled and then stored. |
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| Fountain in the Pfühlpark | ? | Simple octagonal fountain with a simple water feature. |
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| Fountain in the city park | 1957 | Two unadorned, pond-like fountains with simple water features are located in the city park near the Harmonie . Today you can see the efforts of the city planners in simple structures like this one, to loosen up the dreary home style, in which one rebuilt in the 1950s, with fountains and sculptures. |
 
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| Fountain in the courtyard of the town hall | 1959 | In the inner courtyard of the town hall extension, which was built between 1957 and 1959, there is a fountain in the style of the time of construction next to the hall of honor and contemporary mosaics. |
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| Bear fountain | 1960 | The sculptor Ernst Kibler from Stuttgart designed the bear fountain for Berliner Platz in Heilbronn. At the time of the design competition in 1959, there were already 55 fountains in Heilbronn. The fountain originally consisted of the bear and two lemniscate- shaped basins. The bear figure is supposed to symbolize the city of Berlin . The fountain was inaugurated on May 13, 1960 by Willy Brandt , but the fountain basins were removed again in 1975. The figure of the Berlin Bear stood from 1981 to January 27, 2011 without a fountain basin in the central green strip of the avenue opposite the Heilbronn City Theater . On December 21, 2016, it was set up in front of the city theater. |
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| Goose fountain | 1961 | Designed by Hermann Koziol , made of bronze and concrete. You can see three geese stretching their necks towards the water jet. The fountain was originally set up on the avenue and is now in the Gänshof. |
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| Pigeon fountain | 1962 | Made by Ulrich Henn . His work is in the large Deutschhof and consists of a large, flat fountain bowl on which flying pigeons in the shape of a lemniscate could be seen. The pigeons have been restored in the lapidarium for some time. Another fountain by Werner Holzbächer is located in the former reading courtyard of the Heilbronn City Library, which is also part of the Deutschhof . |
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| Käthchenbrunnen | 1965 | Designed in 1965 by Dieter Läpple . The fountain consists of a larger than life, 2.20 meter high bronze statue of Käthchen von Heilbronn and stands in Kirchbrunnenstrasse, until 2013 at the stairs to the back entrance of the C&A department store, since 2016 after a three-year construction-related break in almost the same place now behind the Marrahaus . The originally existing water feature has not existed since 1991. In 1965, the fountain caused controversy among the citizens, who saw the city not adequately represented by the braided bronze wind bride . In 2008 the Käthchenparade took place, at which individually painted casts of the figure were set up distributed throughout the city. |
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| Well at the wool house | ? | Probably arose when the Wollhausplatz was redesigned and the Wollhauszentrum was built in the 1970s. |
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| Fountain at the shooting house | ? | Three-storey fountain, probably from the late 1970s. With its three basins that taper towards the top, the fountain is reminiscent of a fountain from the Art Nouveau period, which also consisted of three basins and which stood on the nearby station square until Heilbronn was destroyed in December 1944. |
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| Barrel fountain | 1982 | Designed in 1982 by Karl-Henning Seemann . The fountain originally located in Eichgasse shows the shape of a barrel carrier, from whose shouldered wine barrel water flows. The bronze fountain was moved in 2006 to the Wein-Panoramaweg below the Wartberg tower , where it was presumably sawed off or broken off and stolen by metal thieves in 2018 . |
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| Well system at the employment office | 1982 | The fountain at the employment office was created by Gerlinde-Martina Klepsch (* 1924) in the entrance area of the building, which was inaugurated in 1982. An organically shaped metal structure directs the water into an artificially created round made of natural stones. |
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| Fountain on Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz | ? | Made of rough hewn stone, currently no longer in use. |
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| Theater fountain | 1983 | Built by Gudrun Schreiner in August 1983 next to the Heilbronn City Theater . In April 1982 the sculptor won first prize in the competition for the design of the theater forecourt with a design in which the function as a fountain and the thematic relation to the theater were equally taken into account. Under the motto "Theater, Kleist and Käthchenstadt" , a broad ensemble with characters and scenarios from the historical world of drama was created. The figures to be seen on the fountain - all embedded in an approximately round bronze relief - come from Greek mythology, but are also based on William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream and Heinrich von Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn . Correspondingly, around the dreamy Käthchen in the center of the group Orpheus, Eurydice, Narcissus and various animal and bird people are arranged. A self-portrait of the artist can also be discovered somewhat hidden. The fountain is based on a cloverleaf-shaped fountain basin made up of three round, interlocking, flat bowls, the granite bridges of which are accessible. The relief itself was created in six parts using the lost wax technique in Tuscany. The water fountains come from the sculpture ensemble as well as from the surrounding basin, whereby the ups and downs of the water course are supposed to remind of the opening and closing of the theater curtain. Since today's theater would hardly be imaginable without Shakespeare, the artist also had a verse by the English poet and playwright engraved: "We are made of the stuff that dreams are made of." |
 
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| Pitcher fountain | 1994 | On the Wein-Panorama-Weg, not far from the location of the barrel carrier, there is a sandstone-enclosed bronze fountain with gold decorations. Drink when you are thirsty , the fountain with the relief sculpture of a jug invites you to drink, at the push of a button water bubbles at mouth level. |
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| New city fountain | 1996 | The fountain, which is characterized by figures of musicians and comedians and is colloquially known as the comedian fountain, was completed in 1996 by Eberhard Linke from bronze, concrete and sandstone. The approx. 9 × 16 meter large fountain with up to 3 meter high figures is located on Kiliansplatz . The left-hand design for this fountain was able to prevail in a design competition in 1988. In place of the fountain, there was previously the stone sculpture Tor closed by Michael Schoenholtz, which was moved to the end of Kirchbrunnenstrasse on the Neckar. |
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| Dream fountain | 1997 | The dream fountain designed by Jürgen Goertz in 1997 , which is also popularly known as the moon fountain , is located in the Kirchhöfle behind the Nikolaikirche . |
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Gertrud Schubert: Ade grape eaters . In: Heilbronner Voice , March 29, 2016
- ↑ ing .: The fountain boy with grapes and fruit. From top design to stone execution - soon new sculpture in the city. In: Heilbronn voice . No. 199 , August 27, 1952, p. 4 .
- ^ Gertrud Schubert: Green islands for the lunch break . In: Heilbronner Voice , June 10, 2017
- ↑ a b Entry on Berliner-Bär-Brunnen in the HEUSS database of the Heilbronn City Archives , contemporary history collection, signature ZS-7731
- ↑ Heilbronner Allee will become a permanent construction site from March . In: Heilbronn voice . January 31, 2011 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on February 13, 2011]).
- ↑ Kilian Krauth: Heilbronn's problem bear is back . In: Heilbronner Voice , December 21, 2016
- ↑ “Silence can be observed in the reading room” - 100 Years of Heilbronn City Library , Heilbronn 2003, p. 36
- ↑ Bärbel Kistner: Käthchen has returned after three years . In: Heilbronn Voice , September 21, 2016
- ↑ Die Zeit: "Käthchen's Chicken Breast"
- ↑ a b Carsten Friese: Second bronze sculpture stolen on the Wartberg. In: Heilbronner Voice , May 9, 2018
- ↑ Franziska Feinäugle: Naked bronze man watches over Heilbronn . In: Heilbronner Voice , July 17, 2006
- ^ Gabriele Holthuis: City of Sculptures Heilbronn. Guide to art in public spaces. Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1996, ISBN 3-930811-57-X ( Heilbronn Museum Catalog No. 60)
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