Chancellor's Fountain
| Chancellor's Fountain | |
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 Chancellor Fountain (2016) |
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| Data | |
| place | Darmstadt |
| builder | Johann Baptist Scholl the Younger |
| Builder | City of Darmstadt |
| Construction year | 1860 |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 52 '19.5 " N , 8 ° 39' 33" E |
The Chancellor Fountain is a fountain in Darmstadt .
History and description
The Chancellor's Fountain is the work of the sculptor Johann Baptist Scholl the Younger . It was made from red sandstone in 1860 . The water-spouting lion heads are cast from bronze .
Monument protection
The public wall fountain, which was formerly connected to the three -well pipe, was originally attached to the house at Alexanderstraße 4 ; the house of Chancellor Kilian von Schwarzenau. After the Second World War , the Chancellor's Fountain was attached to the old city wall. For architectural and city history reasons, the Chancellor's Fountain is a cultural monument .
literature
- Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. ( Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg Verlag , Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 93.