Butt fountain
The Butt fountain is a small fountain on the Museum Island in Berlin district of Mitte . It was created as a playful homage to King Friedrich Wilhelm IV , the builder of the Neues Museum . The Buttbrunnen is located immediately west of the Altes Museum on the wall between two staircases that lead from the level of the Lustgarten to the Iron Bridge over the Kupfergraben and to today's Bodestrasse. The difference in height arose when between 1914 and 1916 bridge and street (at that time still Museumsstraße) have been renewed and raised. In 1916 the southern retaining wall was decorated with a wall fountain made of Franconian shell limestone , designed by the Berlin sculptor Robert Schirmer (1850–1923). The Buttbrunnen is also known as “ floe on dry land”.
Description of the plant
The model of the butt fountain was a motif from the stibadium at the entrance to the Roman baths in the park of Sanssouci . This intimate complex was built in loose succession from 1829 on the ideas of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm by Ludwig Persius and Karl Friedrich Schinkel . Because of his stature, Friedrich Wilhelm self- deprecatingly called himself Butt in the family circle . Around 1830 Christian Daniel Rauch , alluding to this name, created a water-donating zinc flounder for access to the Roman baths.
The rectangular, ornamented fountain basin is 3.20 meters wide and 77 centimeters high. To the side of this are two small-format, allegorical reliefs ; the two female figures are supposed to symbolize the rivers Spree (right) and Panke (left). On a base close to the water level of the pool is a wasserspeiender flatfish , the butt .
restoration
The Buttbrunnen has recently been restored , the writer Günter Grass ( Der Butt , 1977) had called on interested citizens for financial support: "Don't complain about neglect, take action."
Web links
- Flood on dry land. on the website of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development, accessed on February 19, 2011
- Buttbrunnen on the website of the association Denk mal an Berlin e. V., accessed February 19, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flood on dry land. on the website of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development, accessed on February 19, 2011
- ^ Christiane Theiselmann: Potsdam and surroundings. From Prussian Arcadia to the Brandenburg state capital (= DuMont art travel guide), DuMont , Cologne 1996, ISBN 3770131290 , p. 178
- ^ Buttbrunnen on the website of the association Denk mal an Berlin e. V., accessed February 19, 2011
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '10 " N , 13 ° 23' 53" E