Engelbert fountain
The Engelbert fountain was a fountain in the city center of Bochum on today's Kortumstraße and Brüderstraße. With his fountain statue he commemorated Count Engelbert von der Mark , who ruled the County of Mark from 1346 to 1391 and who founded the May Eve Festival . Today a statue is still preserved as a memorial, which, after restoration work in the Gerberviertel, was given its current location on Große Beckstrasse, corner of Untere Marktstrasse in front of the provost church. The statue was unveiled on July 3, 2020.
history
The original fountain was inaugurated in 1910. The sculpture created by the Bochum sculptor Markus Wollner on an octagonal granite column with four gargoyles was melted down in 1944 during the Second World War .
The new fountain with a newly made statue was designed by Ferdinand Spindel in 1964 and inaugurated in 1964. A subway station was opened under the fountain in 1979, which was originally named after the fountain and is now called Bermuda3eck / Musikforum subway station . The fountain, across from a supermarket, was a popular hangout for punks .
A new well planned at the site, already purchased by the city administration, should have been erected with a 120-ton crane, which the statics of the underground tunnel would not have withstood. This fountain is now at the end of Kortumstrasse on Konrad-Adenauer-Platz.
After the statue was moved further and further to the roadside as part of road construction work and in favor of outdoor catering, it was completely dismantled in early 2020. After a restoration, it was then put up again in the Gerberviertel, at the corner of Große Beckstraße and Untere Marktstraße.
See also
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 32.8 " N , 7 ° 12 ′ 57" E