Fountain with dancing faunas
The fountain with dancing fauns is a fountain in Gliwice (Gleiwitz). The fountain is one of the city's landmarks. Recently, the fauns like Manneken Pis have been disguised by the city administration on various occasions.
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The fountain is located on Zwycięstwa Street (the former Wilhelmstraße) on the green area in front of the Gliwice City Council, the former hotel " Haus Oberschlesien ", next to the Klodnitz .
In an octagonal water basin stands a cylindrical pedestal with goat heads as gargoyles at the top , which are connected by festoons made from vines . On the pedestal there are three fauns dancing in a dance. The figures were made in 1928 in the Gleiwitzer Hütte from cast iron based on a template by the Berlin sculptor Hans Dammann .
In Gliwice vernacular it was said that the three fauns on the fountain represented the mayors of Gleiwitz, Hindenburg and Beuthen , who were forever in dispute and who could not agree on the merger of the three cities discussed at the time .
In 2009 the fauns were damaged in an attempted theft and renovated in 2010.
Other well-known fountains in Gliwice / Gleiwitz are the Neptune fountain and the boy with a swan .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Gazeta Wyborcza: Fauny powróciły i wywołały zdziwienie of Gliwice
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 46 ″ N , 18 ° 40 ′ 10.9 ″ E