Fountain master

The largest fountain in Europe since 1720 : The Great Fountain in the Great Garden of Hanover-Herrenhausen

Fountain master , sometimes also fountain master or French: [maître] fontainier , is the historical name for a person who was responsible for the supervision of a water pipe network, or, in art , a person who was responsible for the installation and maintenance of fountains and mostly stone ones Well basin and its water distribution is responsible. In earlier times, the maitre fontainier was also responsible for stately toilet facilities . In addition, the Fontainiers justified the water pipes made of lead , for their restoration under historic preservation aspects of today's Brunnenmeister are responsible.

Well-known Fontainiers

• the Francine family (Italian: Francini ), famous Italian Fontainier dynasty for the Château neuf of Saint-Germain-en-Laye ( Thomas Francine ) and the park of Versailles Palace (his son François Francine )
• Jean Joseph La Croix (1737–1828), fountain master, active in Hanover

See also

• Art master
• Hydraulic engineer
• Water art

Web links

• Fontainier / Métier du secteur: Pierre French-language website of the national Institute National des Métiers d'Art (INMA) with explanations of the job description

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Compare, for example, the title of guidelines for a well master's specifications (= Directives pour l'établissement d'un cahier des charges pour fontainier ), Swiss Association of Gas and Water Experts, Zurich (SVGW, now: SVGW SSIGE ), Pratteln: Schweizerischer Brunnenmeister- Association, 1971, DNB 577373471 .
2. ↑ Uwe Rada (Red.): Focus on water. Brandenburg's cultural landscape in transition , ed. by Kulturland Brandenburg eV Koehler & Amelang, Potsdam and Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-7338-0359-9 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
3. ↑ Joseph Madeleine Morisot : [Vocabulaires des arts et métiers, en ce qui concerne les constructions, faisant suite aux] Tableaux détaillés des prix de tous les ouvrages de bâtiment divisés [...], suivant les différentes espèces de travaux et suivis d ' un traité particulier pour chaque espèce , Paris: Gœury, 1804 7 vol in 8 avec planches, 2e édition 1820, Paris: Gœury (Il na paru que 2 volumes de cette édition J introduction contient une espèce de bibliographie critique des auteurs qui ont précédemment écrit sur la même matière); V e volume ( digitized in the Google book search).
4. ^ Les Francine ( Memento from August 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the Versailles Palace page