Landgrave Fountain (Bad Homburg vor der Höhe)
The Landgrave Fountain is a fountain in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . It is listed as a cultural monument .
In 1899 a new spring was drilled on the grounds of the golf course in the Bad Homburg spa gardens and then used as a bathing spring. From 1903 the very salty water was also prescribed for internal use in the case of liver and gall bladder diseases. Now the fountain was redesigned and a pavilion with a bar was built next to it and opened on June 9, 1903. Today's fountain architecture was created in 1908 by the sculptor Anton Lussmann in the Art Nouveau style. The small complex facing the Brunnenallee was originally crowned by two flower-filled vases and had a relief nymph at a rock spring on the front. The representation of the naked nymph met with criticism from the population. It was therefore replaced in 1955 by a relief bust of Landgrave Friedrich II . This metal casting is the work of Ortud Krüger-Stohlmann .
The water in the fountain is an iron-containing sodium chloride acid with a temperature of 10.2 degrees. Another tap for water from this fountain is located behind the music pavilion.
See also
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- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Landgrafenbrunnen In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- Gerta Walsh : Naked nymph had to give way ; in: Taunuszeitung from August 11, 2012, p. 14, online
- Image of the fountain in its original form . Places of treatment. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
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Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 37.87 " N , 8 ° 37 ′ 42.74" E