Warrior fountain
Warrior fountain then and now
The Kriegerbrunnen is an Art Nouveau building in the Bavarian city of Nördlingen . It was created in 1902 by the Munich sculptor Georg Wrba and inaugurated on September 7th of the same year. It is located on the beet market , in the immediate vicinity of St. George's Church .
The warrior fountain was built in memory of the Franco-Prussian War on the site of a former so-called Jewish fountain. The numerous design elements include an eagle on the top of the fountain, water-spouting busts of Rieser farmers and depictions of the battles of the Franco-Prussian War and its protagonists , including Helmuth von Moltke and Otto von Bismarck .
Web links
Commons : Kriegerbrunnen (Nördlingen) - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Warrior fountain as a 3D model in SketchUp's 3D warehouse
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the warrior fountain at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 225 kB)
- ↑ Information on the warrior fountain on noerdlingen.de ( memento of the original from January 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '2.79 " N , 10 ° 29' 22.56" E