Condenser well
The condensation fountain is located in the center of the Danube town Scheer on Hindenburgplatz.
The fountain was built in 1975 by the Fasnetskonde (journeyman craftsmen who met regularly on Carnival Tuesday in Scheer) from their own resources. 15 volunteers from the Kondevereinigung built the fountain according to their own designs in a five-month construction period and also covered the space around the fountain, which stands under a linden tree , with granite paving.
The fountain figure symbolizes a craft boy (Swabian: "Konde") on the roller . Hence the name “condenser fountain”. The figure was created by the sculptor Leeuw from Bad Saulgau . Below the condens there are four steel gargoyles in the mask form of the Scheeremer carnival figure "Mußbrenner". The well trough is framed by a structured concrete element on which the city coat of arms and the year of construction are attached.
At the festive unveiling on May 25, 1975, when a Scheer-brewed beer flowed out of the gargoyles instead of water, the basis for the fountain festival that has taken place since then was created.
Since the turn of the millennium is at Easter the fountain with painted Easter eggs and from pine branches decorated wreaths bound. This custom of the Easter fountain originally comes from Franconian Switzerland .
literature
- Walter Bleicher: Carnival customs in the town of Scheer / Danube . Bride's Guild, Scheer 1985
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Fahlbusch: Fountain with an Easter look. A beautiful old custom . In: Südkurier of April 3, 2010
Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 22 " N , 9 ° 17 ′ 38" E