Fountain of Justice (Aarau)
The justice fountain in Aarau is on the square in front of the city church . It was created in 1643 by the sculptor Heinz Henz and painted by Balthasar Fisch. While the Justitia figure is made of sandstone , the column is made of limestone , the fountain trough is made of Mägenwil shell limestone and the base is made of granite .
Originally the fountain stood a little further east at the intersection of Rathausgasse and Kronengasse / Kirchgasse. Due to the increasing volume of traffic, however, it had to be moved to its current location in 1905. The fountain figure is a copy, the original is kept in the Schlössli City Museum.
literature
- Michael Stettler: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume I, districts of Aarau, Kulm, Zofingen. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1948, p. 38-40 .
Web links
- Sights in Aarau
- Fountain of justice in the inventory of historical monuments in the canton of Aargau
Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '32.8 " N , 8 ° 2' 34.4" E ; CH1903: six hundred forty-five thousand six hundred and twenty-three / 249,245