Gänseliesel fountain (Hanover)
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Postcard number "569" by Karl F. Wunder , around 1900
The Gänseliesel fountain in Hanover was created by Carl Dopmeyer in 1898 and is located on the northeast edge of Steintorplatz .
history
The fountain had originally been set up further north on An der Goseriede since 1898 . In 1981/82 it was dismantled in the course of the underground construction work and put back into operation in 1984 on the newly designed Steintor square .
background
The fountain is a bronze statue of a goose girl, a girl shepherding geese. The fountain was set up at this point because the Goseriede ( Low German for a run-out area for geese) was located here.
Ried is actually the name for a swampy area and occurs more often in the Hanoverian language, for example in the street An der Strangriede and the city forest Eilenriede .
literature
- Karl Scheibe: Disappeared and present art fountains in Hanover. In: Hannoverland. 10, 1916, ZDB -ID 535760-3 , pp. 125f.
- Rainer Ertel , Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: Hannoversches Brunnenbuch. Fountains and fountains in Hanover. Torch bearer, Hannover 1988, ISBN 3-7716-1497-X , p. 34f.
- Rainer Ertel in: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 200.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 34.2 " N , 9 ° 43 ′ 57.1" E