Gänseliesel fountain (Hanover)

The Gänseliesel fountain at the stone gate

The fountain at the Goseriede in front of the Nikolaikapelle
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

Location from 1898 to 1981 (in the green area in the center of the picture)

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.

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 34.2 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 57.1"  E