Georgsbrunnen (Ellingen)

The Georgsbrunnen with the equestrian statue of Saint George in January 2007, in the background the west wing of the castle can be seen, in which the East Prussian cultural center is housed.

The Georgsbrunnen is a baroque fountain in Ellingen , a town in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .

It stands on Schloßstraße, not far from the west wing of the Ellingen Residence , the former seat of a Landkomtur of the Teutonic Order , and near the former stables , the riding school and the economic courtyard of the palace complex. The Georgsbrunnen is registered under the monument number D-5-77-125-103 as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.

The fountain was built around 1755. It is crowned by an equestrian statue of St. Georg , the patron saint of the knightly orders . The original location was in the village of Absberg, a few kilometers away, not far from the palace complex there .

literature

• Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .
• City of Ellingen (Hrsg.): The baroque tour . Ellingen 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georgsbrunnen in the monument list of the town of Ellingen of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF)

Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '39.2 "  N , 10 ° 57' 53.4"  E