Goose thief well
The Gänsediebbrunnen is a fountain in the Weißen Gasse in the inner old town of Dresden .
It consists of a bronze figure on a granite base in a water basin. The bronze figure was created as a statue by Robert Diez in 1878 . The architect Paul Weidner created the substructure. The bronze casting was carried out by the Dresden foundry C. Albert Bierling . A young man is shown stealing two geese. There are two more geese on the granite substructure.
The fountain on Ferdinandplatz was inaugurated on April 20, 1880. The fountain was financed by Justus Friedrich Güntz with funds from the Güntz Foundation . At the International Art Exhibition in Munich in 1879, the fountain was awarded the Great Gold Medal. The fountain survived the air raids on Dresden in February 1945 undamaged. In 1961 it got its current location in the Weißen Gasse.
On the occasion of the national stamp exhibition of the GDR in Dresden, the Deutsche Post issued three stamps with Dresden motifs in 1979, one of which shows the goose thief fountain.
Postage stamp with the goose thief fountain
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The fountain was reconstructed in the years after the reunification of 1991 and 1992.
There is a copy of the fountain in Diez's hometown of Pößneck .
The test cast of the fountain figure is in Augustusburg (Ore Mountains).
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The fountain figure shows the young Thomas Platter , who later became the rector of the Latin School in Basel, stealing two geese. Platter visited the Kreuzschule in Dresden in 1512 as a traveling pupil . He stole two geese for the farewell dinner with the schoolmaster.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 56.6 ″ N , 13 ° 44 ′ 25.4 ″ E