List of fountains in the city of Bremen
This list of fountains in the city of Bremen includes the fountains and gargoyles in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Some of them have been removed, relocated, remodeled, or destroyed from their original location over the decades. This is noted under the prefix Status. Monuments and statues are expressly not listed.
The list does not claim to be complete, but will be updated continuously. For a better overview, the individual works are arranged according to their date of installation, divided into century and year and possibly even more finely divided into month and day. If two wells were built at the same time (or in the same year), they are listed in alphabetical order.
If the date of the inauguration is unknown, the work is either added to the list below or inserted reasonably sensibly. (If, for example, the artist, the material, the installation site and the subject matter are identical to a work from a certain year, it can be assumed that the monument without a date also comes from around this time at this point in time.)
18th century
Jacobi fountain
- Erected: 1718
- Occasion: unknown
- Design: Christoph Albrecht
- Execution: Christoph Albrecht
- Material: stone
- Place of installation: At the Jakobikirchhof. ( Location )
- Specials: Owned a piston pump .
- Status: In 1906 the figure was smashed and on October 6, 1944 the copy was destroyed in a bomb attack. Compare James Fountain .
Ottjen Alldag Fountain
- Established: 1733
- Occasion: Since 1964, memory of the Low German poet Georg Droste and his fictional character Ottjen Alldag
- Design: unknown
- Version: unknown
- Material: stone (basin) and bronze (tube)
- Installation location: On a farm in Lankenau .
- Particularities: -
- Status: In 1963 the fountain basin was moved to the Schnoor at the corner of Spiekerbartstraße and there in 1964 it was joined with the Ottjen Alldag sculpture by the sculptor Claus Homfeld . ( Location )
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Roland fountain
- Established: 1737
- Occasion: unknown
- Founder: the 1st Neustädter Citizen Company with its chairman, Lieutenant Worminghausen
- Design: Theophilus Wilhelm Frese
- Execution: Theophilus Wilhelm Frese and his workshop
- Material: Bremen stone (Obernkirchen sandstone)
- Installation site: in the horse walk of Osterstraße in the old new town
- Special features: Function: fountain column
- Status: 1899 to the north end of the Neuer Markt and 1965 moved to its south end ( location )
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Fountain column Fröbelstrasse
- Erected: around 1790
- Occasion: Water supply to the public
- Material: stone
- Installation site: formerly in Vegesack, from 1892 in the district of Fähr-Lobbendorf, Fröbelstraße 52
- Special features: Function: fountain column
- Info: Monument database of the LfD
19th century
Artisan Fountain
- Erected: probably after 1865
- Occasion: unknown
- Design: Diedrich Samuel Kropp
- Execution: Iron foundry Osenbrück (Hemelingen)
- Material: cast iron
- Installation site: front garden of Villa Rüpel, Schwachhauser Chaussee (today Kippenberg-Gymnasium)
- Special features: Draft of the model 1863, presentation in 1865 at the 5th trade exhibition. Of the original five copies - which differ in detail - there is only one more (better preserved) in Blumenthal: See Wätjens Brunnen .
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- Status: Since 1961 in the Osterholz cemetery . ( Location )
Wätjens fountain
- Established: 1865
- Occasion: unknown
- Design: Diedrich Samuel Kropp
- Execution: Iron foundry Osenbrück (Hemelingen)
- Material: cast iron
- Installation site: Wätjens Park , Bremen-Blumenthal ( location )
- Special features: The fountain is the better preserved example of the artisan's fountain , but has no turtle-shaped feet, but rests on a stone base. In 1987 it was restored and then placed on a green space at the entrance to the Bremen wool combing shop. In July 2010 the fountain was dismantled in order to restore it. On October 30, 2010, it was reassembled at the old location in Wätjens Park.
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- Status: Back at the original location.
Nielsen fountain
- Established: 1872
- Occasion: Beautification of the Contrescarpe. Named after Ferdinand Nielsen, one of the creators and founder of the fountain.
- Design: unknown
- Version: unknown
- Material: stone (basin) and bronze (figures)
- Installation location: At the corner of Contrescarpe and Daniel-von-Büren-Straße (formerly Bürenstraße) ( location )
- Particularities: -
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- Status: demolished in 1931.
Niemitzbrunnen
- Established: 1878
- Occasion: -
- Founder: Johann Friedrich Niemitz
- Design: Heinrich Müller
- Version: unknown
- Material: stone and marble
- Installation location: In the Bürgerpark . ( Location )
- Special features: Has the shape of a small Pompeian temple with a flat triangular gable. Inside the open formation is the actual fountain.
- Status: In the same place.
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Wilhadibrunnen
- Established: 1883
- Occasion: Honoring Willehad , the first bishop of Bremen.
- Model: Richard Neumann
- Execution: Gladenbeck foundry, Berlin
- Material: stone (basin and base) and bronze (figure)
- Installation site: On a traffic island between the cathedral and town hall at the Domshof . ( Location )
- Particularities: -
- Status: In 1942 the figure was melted down as a "metal donation". The base and the basin were dismantled in 1952.
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Marcus Fountain (Bürgerpark)
- Established: 1889
- Occasion: unknown
- Founder: Mayor Victor Marcus
- Design: August Töpfer
- Execution: Diedrich Kropp (figures) and F. Kallmeyer (metal jewelry)
- Material: stone (base and fountain bowl) and bronze (figures)
- Installation location: In the Bürgerpark . ( Location )
- Particularities: -
- Status: In 1940 the figures were melted down as a "metal donation". The fountain was restored in 1959. In 1976 the upper shell was added and the seahorses on the base were replaced by clam shells by the sculptor Claus Homfeld .
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Centaur Fountain
→ Main article Centaur Fountain (Bremen)
- Erected: September 22, 1891
- Occasion: unknown
- Design: Carl August Sommer
- Execution: August summer
- Material: stone (basin) and bronze (figure)
- Installation site: Schwachhauser Heerstraße / Bismarckstraße (dismantled on March 13, 1958)
- Special features: The founder was the architect Gildemeister , who prevented the construction of a urinal in front of his house.
- Status: The fountain was moved to the Neustädter ramparts near Leibnizplatz in 1958 . ( Location )
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Tower blower fountain
- Established: August 30, 1899
- Occasion: Decoration of a medicinal water pump.
- Founder: Franz Ernst Schütte
- Design: Ernst Ehrhardt (base), Max Dennert (tower wind group)
- Execution: Schäffer u. Welcker, Berlin (cast)
- Material: stone (base) and bronze (figures)
- Place of installation: At the southwest corner of the cathedral . ( Location )
- Particularities: -
- Status: In 1928 the fountain was moved slightly when the bell was built , in 1942 the figure fell victim to a “metal donation”. The new casting (based on the preserved model) was unveiled on October 30, 1956.
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Jakobibrunnen I
- Established: unknown
- Occasion: unknown
- Design: unknown
- Version: unknown
- Material: stone
- Installation site: Am Stavendamm in Schnoor .
- Particularities: -
- Status: Demolished.
Jakobibrunnen II
- Established: unknown
- Occasion: unknown
- Design: unknown
- Version: unknown
- Material: stone
- Installation site: On the Schützenwall.
- Particularities: -
- Status: Demolished.
Teichmann fountain
- Established: November 28, 1899
- Occasion: Replacement of the pump on the Domshof.
- Founder: Gustav Adolph Teichmann († 1892), businessman
- Design: Rudolf Maison
- Execution: Rudolf Maison
- Motif: boat with Mercury, Neptune and mermaids
- Material: bronze
- Installation site: On the Domshof . ( Location )
- Particularities: -
- Status: melted down in 1940 as a "metal donation".
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Fountain at the city scales
- Erected: 18th century fountain column; Pillar after 1874, the lion is also a later ingredient.
- Occasion: unknown
- Founder: unknown
- Design: unknown
- Version: unknown
- Material: bronze (pipe) and stone
- Installation location: At the northern corner of the Stadtwaage in Grosse Waagestrasse . ( Location )
- Particularities: -
- Status: In the same place.
- Info: Lit .: Exhibition catalog Wasser , Focke-Museum 1983, cat. No. 24
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20th century
Horse fountain I
- Established: 1900
- Occasion: unknown
- Founder: Animal Welfare Association
- Design: Gerhard Lange
- Execution: Aerzener Maschinenfabrik
- Material: unknown
- Installation site: Contrescarpe, corner of Goetheplatz . ( Location )
- Special features: Around 1900, at least 58 of these " drinking fountains for people, horses, dogs and birds" had been produced by Aerzener Maschinenfabrik . This example was repaired in 1960 with the support of the Ostertor Citizens' Association. Several replicas of this type of fountain were set up from 1974 - cf. Horse fountain II-V.
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- Status: In the same place.
Marcus Fountain (Liebfrauenkirchhof)
- Established: November 14, 1909
- Occasion: erection of the Moltke monument
- Founder: Mayor Victor Marcus
- Design: Heinrich Jennen and Hermann Hahn
- Execution: Heinrich Jennen and Hermann Hahn
- Material: stone (base and fountain bowl) and bronze (figures)
- Place of installation: On the Liebfrauenkirchhof . ( Location )
- Special features: Also called taxi fountain .
- Status: In the same place.
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Claus-Albert-Addix-Fountain
- Established: 1909
- Occasion: heir of the businessman Claus Albert Addix
- Design: Johann Conrad Buchner
- Execution: as above
- Material: stone
- Installation site: Schwachhausen, Bürgerpark. ( Location )
- Special features: remodeling in 1968
- Status: In the same place.
- Info: Monument database of the LfD
Seven Lazy Fountain
- Erected: before 1930
- Occasion: Remembering the legend of the seven lazy people
- Design: Bernhard Hoetger
- Execution: Otto Meier
- Material: brick (base) and bronze (pipes)
- Place of installation: In the craft yard on Böttcherstraße . ( Location )
- Particularities: -
- Status: In the same place.
- Info: Monument database of the LfD
Deer well
- Erected: August 22, 1933
- Occasion: 80th birthday of the former mayor Hermann Hildebrand .
- Donors: Some patrons from Bremen
- Design: Ernst Gorsemann
- Execution: Ernst Gorsemann
- Material: bronze figures on stone plinth
- Place of installation: In the ramparts , near the Wallmühle . ( Location )
- Special features: The fountain has often been the victim of vandalism.
- Status: Melted down as a "metal donation" during World War II, but restored again in 1949.
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James Fountain
- Established: 1957
- Occasion: unknown
- Design: unknown
- Version: unknown
- Material: stone
- Installation location: At the Neanderhaus next to the Martini church . ( Location )
- Special features: The fountain is a slightly modified replica of the destroyed original from 1718. Compare Jakobibrunnen , St. Jacobus monument .
- Status: In the same place.
Well at the Weidedamm
- Established: 1966
- Occasion: Completion of the former technical college for social professions (today: LIS )
- Design: Alice Peters- Jonescu
- Version: unknown
- Material:
- Installation location: Am Weidedamm 20
- Particularities:
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- Status: In the same place.
Fountain on the Brake
- Established: 1967
- Occasion: unknown
- Design: Paul Halbhuber
- Version: unknown
- Material: travertine
- Installation site: On the Brake, corner of Schillerstraße. ( Location )
- Particularities: -
- Status: The well was dismantled between 2007 and 2012.
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Horse fountain II
- Established: 1974
- Occasion: 100th anniversary of the Brinkmann & Lange company
- Founder: Jeweler Brinkmann & Lange
- Design: Manfred Lohrengel
- Execution: Artistic foundry Kraas, Berlin-Kreuzberg
- Material: bronze and brass-copper
- Place of installation: Obernstraße , corner of Sögestraße . ( Location )
- Special features: The shape of the fountain is based on a design by Gerhard Lange from 1898 - cf. Horse fountain I.
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- Status: In the same place.
Horse fountain III
- Established: 1975
- Occasion: unknown
- Design: Gerhard Lange
- Execution: Artistic foundry Kraas, Berlin
- Material: unknown
- Installation location: On the Wartburgplatz in the Walle district . ( Location )
- Particularities: -
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- Status: In the same place.
Horse fountain IV
- Established: 1977
- Occasion: unknown
- Design: Gerhard Lange
- Execution: Artistic foundry Kraas, Berlin
- Material: unknown
- Installation location: in front of Waller Heerstraße number 229.
- Particularities: -
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- Status: In 2006 moved to Waller Dorfplatz on Stiftstrasse, corner of Achternbergstrasse. ( Location )
Horse fountain V
- Established: 1978
- Occasion: unknown
- Design: Gerhard Lange
- Execution: Artistic foundry Kraas, Berlin
- Material: unknown
- Place of installation: Neuer Markt / Am Neuen Markt. ( Location )
- Particularities: -
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- Status: In the same place.
Market fountain unfolding
- Erected: around 1979
- Occasion: donation from swb AG for road renovation
- Design: Bernd Altenstein
- Execution: Bernd Altenstein
- Material: bronze, stone
- Installation site: Kleiner Markt or Ambassador-Duckwitz-Platz, corner of Reeder-Bischoff-Straße in the Vegesack district . ( Location )
- Particularities: -
- Status: In the same place.
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Farmer's well
- Established: 1982
- Occasion: 75th anniversary of the Oslebshausen Citizens' Association
- Founder: Oslebshausen Citizens' Association
- Design: Helmut Hoffmann
- Version: unknown
- Material: unknown
- Installation location: Am Fuchsberg, corner of Am Koppenberg in the Oslebshausen district . ( Location )
- Particularities: -
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- Status: In the same place.
Findorffer fountain
- Established: 1984
- Occasion: 80th anniversary of the Findorff Citizens' Association. V.
- Founder: Sparkasse Bremen
- Design: Heinz Lilienthal
- Execution: Heinz Lilienthal
- Material: concrete, oceanite rock
- Installation site: Fürther Straße , corner of Hemmstraße . ( Location )
- Special features: A uniform base protrudes from its octagonal water basin, on which different sized octagonal plates are arranged around a center. This fountain, for whose design Lilienthal used the octagon motif so consistently, is a further development of the fountain on Burgdammer Marktplatz, in which only the water basin shows this shape.
- Status: In the same place.
Bathing fountain
- Name: At the bathing or bathing fountain or the happy bathers
- Established: 1986
- Occasion: Reminder of the time when there were still bathhouses in the Schnoor.
- Founder: Schnoor-Verein Heini Holtenbeen e. V.
- Design: Jürgen Cominotto
- Version: unknown
- Material: granite (base) and bronze (figures)
- Installation site: Stavendamm in Schnoor , near the Schifferhaus . ( Location )
- Special features: In the period from October to March, the well is out of order due to the risk of frost
- Status: In the night of December 27th to 28th, 2007, metal thieves stole the bronze figures from the base. On May 19, 2008, an approximately ten-year-old cast of the fountain was mounted on the base. The cast, which had previously stood in the park of an Oldenburg retirement home, was purchased and donated for around 10,000 euros by 40 individuals, three companies and the Wohnliche Stadt Foundation.
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Blockdieker fountain
- Established: 1988
- Occasion: initiative from citizens
- Draft: ?
- Execution: ?
- Material:?
- Dimensions: Ø approx. 1.2 m × 1.5 m
- Place of installation: The fountain sculpture stands in front of the district house in Mülheimer Straße in Bremen-Osterholz ( location )
- Particularities:
- Status: in the same place
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Homfeld fountain
- Established: 1991
- Occasion: unknown
- Design: Claus Homfeld
- Execution: Claus Homfeld
- Material: bronze (sculptures), granite (basin), clinker brick (base)
- Installation location: On the Grohner Markt, corner of Am Wasser in the Grohn district . ( Location )
- Particularities: -
- Status: In the same place.
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Fountain of Neptune
- Established: 1991
- Occasion: unknown
- Founder: "Homely City" Foundation
- Design: Waldemar Otto
- Execution: Waldemar Otto
- Material: granite (base) and bronze (figures)
- Installation site: On the Domshof . ( Location )
- Particularities: -
- Status: In the same place.
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Tidal wells
- Established: 1992
- Occasion: at the suggestion of the Bremen Water Management Office
- Design: Wolfgang Zach
- Execution: Wolfgang Zach
- Material: stainless steel
- Installation site: Platzzone Pieperstraße, at the southwest end of which on Martinistraße, in the district of Altstadt ( Lage )
- Special features: The height of the four columns is controlled in real time, parallel to both the water level of the Weser in Bremerhaven, Brake and Bremen and the groundwater level in Bremen. This illustrates the tidal current on the Weser and its effect on the groundwater.
- Status: In the same place
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Our planet
- Established: 1996
- Occasion: space design
- Design: Bernd Altenstein
- Version: unknown
- Material: bronze
- Installation location: On the Domshof in front of the Deutsche Bank am Domshof . ( Location )
- Particularities: -
- Status: In the same place.
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Fountain on Goldbergplatz
- Established: 1982
- Occasion: Sparkasse Foundation
- Design: Heinz Lilienthal
- Execution: Heinz Lilienthal
- Material: travertine
- Installation site: Goldbergplatz in the Burgdamm district . ( Location )
- Particularities: -
- Status: In the same place.
21st century
Healthy well
- Established: 2002
- Occasion: Completion of the West City Library
- Founder: -
- Draft: -
- Execution: -
- Material: cast stone and stainless steel
- Installation site: On Lindenhofstrasse in front of the West City Library in Bremen- Gröpelingen . ( Location )
- Special features: The operating costs of this fountain are mainly covered by donations.
- Status: In the same place.
The dripper "Il gocciolatoio"
- Erected: First version in 1962, bought by Bremen in mid-1990 and installed in 2004
- Occasion: Redesign of the Börsenhof
- Founder: Bremen Culture Authority with support from the "Wohnliche Stadt" foundation
- Design: Daniel Spoerri
- Execution: Location determination and technical implementation: Johannes Schneider Architect BDA
- Material: bronze and concrete
- Installation location: On Marktstrasse in front of the entrance to the Börsenhof. ( Location )
- Special features: fresh water well. There are two more copies. once in a private garden and once in Spoerris Il Giardino
- Status: In the same place.
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Wilkensbrunnen
- Established: 2004
- Occasion: unknown
- Founder: unknown
- Design: unknown
- Version: unknown
- Material: stone
- Installation location: On the corner of Hemelinger Bahnhofstraße and Diedrich-Wilkens-Straße in Wilkens Park (former residence of the entrepreneur Diedrich Wilkens ) in the Hemelingen district . ( Location )
- Particularities: -
- Status: In the same place.
Fountain at the new radio building
- Established: 2008
- Occasion: -
- Founder: -
- Design: Dietrich Heller
- Execution: -
- Material: Obernkirchen sandstone and black granite
- Place of installation: On the Kurt-Hübner-Platz. ( Location )
- Special features: The sandstone components of the fountain were found in 2004 during excavation work for the new radio building and their workmanship is dated to the early 17th century.
- Status: In the same place.
Fountain at the Swiss corner
- Established: 2013
- Occasion: Redesign of the area of the terminus and turning loop of tram line 1 on Züricher Straße.
- Founder: -
- Draft: -
- Execution: -
- Material: -
- Installation site: On the Osterholz market square. ( Location )
- Particularities: -
- Status: In the same place.
Fountain in the Bible garden
- Established: unknown
- Occasion: -
- Design: unknown
- Version: unknown
- Material: natural stone
- Installation site: Bible garden at St. Petri Cathedral ( location )
- Special features: The fountain was built in the period from 2006 to 2009 from historical parts that were found during excavation work in the lazy quarter.
- Status: In the same place.
Sources and Notes
- ↑ Gabriela Keller: Searching for traces for a well. In: Weser-Kurier online. November 4, 2010, accessed November 4, 2010 .
- ↑ Gabriela Keller: Wätjens Brunnen is being restored. In: Weser-Kurier online. July 13, 2010. Retrieved July 13, 2010 .
- ↑ Gabriela Keller: Wätjens Park has its fountain again. In: Weser-Kurier online. November 1, 2010, accessed November 1, 2010 .
- ^ Ertel, Rainer and Roesener, Ernst-Friedrich: Hannoversches Brunnenbuch , Hannover: Fackelträger-Verlag, 1988, p. 53.
- ^ Kloos, Werner: Lilienthal. Career and work. Bremen 1985.
- ↑ Skwirblies, Karina: The bathers bubble again. In: Weser Kurier (No. 116). Bremen, May 20, 2008, p. 7.
See also
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Edition Temmen , 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X
- Horst Vogel: Wells and pumping stations in the city of Bremen , in: Water. On the history of the drinking water supply in Bremen. Bremer Landesmuseum, Bremen 1988, pp. 50–66. [re. Wells from pre-industrial times]. Cf. also ibid: Cat. No. 2–28
Web links
- Art in public space Bremen , activities of artists in public space since 1973, search for work, artist, location, chronology.