List of fountains in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg

Former fountain system in Tierpark Berlin in 1970

The list of fountains in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin is a detailed overview of the jewelry fountains in the public space of the Lichtenberg district . Wells that are out of service or no longer available were also recorded. Architecturally designed drainage systems and private fountains were not included. The metal road and emergency water wells also set up in all districts have their own lemma.

The list contains 66 objects (as of June 2020) and is based on the Internet presentation of the Berlin Senate about the public fountains in Lichtenberg (18 systems are listed here [as of end of 2016]), on documentation from the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein and on other sources specified accordingly.

overview

The district has more ornamental fountains in the areas of Fennpfuhl, Friedrichsfelde and Neu-Hohenschönhausen compared to the other districts. This is due to the fact that “social centers” had to be planned in the new building districts built from the 1970s onwards according to central guidelines. One such center was a complex of shops, services and an artistically designed leisure time area with flower beds, small green areas, with seating and sculptures or fountains. The fountains and sculptures that were then erected were mostly commissioned works that the East Berlin magistrate selected and financed after internal competitions. In the historically grown districts of Alt-Hohenschönhausen, Falkenberg, Karlshorst, Lichtenberg (excluding the Frankfurter Allee Süd area), Malchow, Rummelsburg and Wartenberg, there are significantly fewer or even no public ornamental fountains.

According to the Senate, there are more than 270 ornamental fountains, sea fountains and splashbacks in Berlin, which have been maintained by Berliner Wasserbetriebe since 2017.

List of wells

The sortable compilation is sorted alphabetically by districts and then by streets.

Legend

• OT: district, where mean:

AH = Berlin-Alt-Hohenschönhausen , Fa = Berlin-Falkenberg , Fe = Berlin-Fennpfuhl , Fr = Berlin-Friedrichsfelde , Ka = Berlin-Karlshorst , Li = Berlin-Lichtenberg , NH = Berlin-Neu-Hohenschönhausen , Ru = Berlin- Rummelsburg

• Name (italic): Name of the well as made by the artist
• Address: nearest street / building, including geographic coordinates (location)
• Year: when set up
• Artist; if more than one artist is known, they are sorted according to the last name of the first named
• Brief description: history and details with picture (if available)

OT	Surname	Address location	year	Artist	Brief description and picture
AH	Hippo fountain	Große-Leege-Straße, fountain in the hippopotamus settlement of Lage	1931-1934	Paul Emmerich , Paul Mebes	Present and functional there at the beginning of the 21st century. Two hippos carved out of limestone stand in an angled, long, rectangular, water-filled concrete basin. During the day, water rises from fountain nozzles placed between the animals.
AH	former Wasserstein fountain field	Landsberger Allee , on a square in front of the Allee Center location	1985 2014	Rüdiger Amend & Co.	The erected rectangular limestone fountain, part of a social center in this residential area, was dismantled in summer 2013. The water technology was no longer functional, the environment was constantly polluted. After a design competition, in which the residents were also involved, the center management, in cooperation with the district office, had a fountain field with surrounding seating built at this point. The design comes from the landscape architect Rüdiger Amend and the La.Bar office.
AH	Erratic well	on an unnamed square in front of the houses at Landsberger Allee 225/227 Lage		unknown	No longer in service in 2016.
fa	Row of fountains	Hausvaterweg 39, Tierheim Berlin location	2002 (opening of the animal shelter)	unknown	There are 15 fountains in a row along the edge of the water basin near the main entrance.
Fe	Water or clinker wall	Fennpfuhlpark , at the Karl-charging street location	1989	Jürgen Karnopp	Water connection dismantled after 2007, fountain basin and ceramic wall planted The wall made of clinker bricks and shaped ceramic stones (in the special format 24 cm × 24 cm × 12 cm) is 20 meters long and 2.60 meters high. Several rows of spray openings are incorporated at different heights, from which the water emerged in arc-shaped jets. In front of it there was a structured, three-part, height-graded water basin of the same length, in which the water jets were collected and directed to the circulation pump. The pipe system ran open behind the wall; The water system was still in operation in 1993. The artist received a fee of 23,000  marks . It became more and more difficult for the district office to finance and keep the extensive facility clean, so that finally the water was turned off and the pools were planted with roses and bushes. A resting point has been created at this point by means of benches and a small system of stairs.
Fe	Ball fountain	Anton-Saefkow-Platz location	1984	Jürgen Karnopp	Several stone balls of different sizes are placed in a square basin with clinker bricks.
Fe	Erratic well	Anton-Saefkow-Promenade on Anton-Saefkow-Platz location	1983	Lothar Scholz	A 27  tons heavy boulder originally stood on a concrete hill, which contributed to the sides of several small boulders and troughs for planting. The flowers and green plants were constantly washed out, so that only the concrete block with the granite remained on top. This sight (see picture above) was not very pleasant, which is why the stone was separated from the water inlet and moved a little further north in the promenade, in the middle between four young trees (picture below).
Fe	Monumental fountain	Anton-Saefkow-Platz location	1985	Peter Schubring	Demolished around 1995 after reconstruction considerations. To the east of it in the immediate vicinity on the square, a small fountain field was installed instead and put into operation in 2009. more pictures
Fe	Fountain in the Fennpfuhl waters	Fennpfuhlpark location	1985	unknown	After years of rotting, the district office had the pipes and pumps removed. In Ströer Media , a sponsor was found who financed the technical renewal of the swimming fountain at the same place and who contractually guaranteed the maintenance. The new inauguration took place on the occasion of the Fennpfuhl Festival 2013.
Fe	Coral fountain	Möllendorffstrasse at the corner of Storkower Strasse location	1975	Toni Mau	Out of service since 1991. A three-meter-high well on a pedestal has been preserved as a sculpture, the basin was concreted over. The sculpture is a stylized representation of three coral sticks connected to one another, with colored glass placed in their openings. The idea of ​​the corals with the glass deposits was taken up for the wall around the beer garden of a nearby restaurant. The current owner of the remaining plastic is Howoge housing company .
Fe	Bird fountain or seagull fountain	Otto-Marquardt-Straße location	1980/81	Baldur Schönfelder	In a square artificial stone basin (side length nine meters) is a three meter high metal well. This is surrounded by a transparent spherical metal construction. A total of 28 pairs of seagulls , each 35 centimeters high and made of bronze, sit evenly on top of one another on an inner egg-shaped structure divided into three galleries . The water emerges from the center in an arc on all sides and is deflected into the basin by the rings of the globe .
Fe	Fountain with metal plastic	Roederplatz location	1976	Friedrich Schötschel	Only the basin is left. Length and width of the artificial stone pool: 6 m × 8 m; the height of the stainless steel pipe was 2.50 m, in the upper part the pipe forked into two parts that were slightly bent outwards. Seven slimmer stainless steel pipes wound around them, at each end of which there was a spray head from which a bundle of algae (according to the artist, “something organic”) hung, it could also have been icicles or leaves. The entire inner construction of the fountain was dismantled and stored by the district office around 2008, the basin was then attractively planted and initially decorated on the outside with fish, starfish and the like. When the adjoining square was completely redesigned , the basin was given colored ceramic panels as planking.
Fe	Splash in the Rudolf Seiffert Park	Rudolf-Seiffert-Strasse location	2006	Kerstin Grimm	On the area of ​​a demolished GDR standard school, a ground-level labyrinth area of ​​135 m² made of high-quality frost-resistant and solid-colored stoneware tiles was ornamentally designed. The surrounding seating was given an appealing exterior by means of smaller tiles and mosaic stones made of a glass and stone mix, which forms a striped pattern. The water falls from a stainless steel ring.
Fe	former high fountain or fountain with concrete sculpture fountain system with the figure "Storki"	Storkower Bogen location	1980 2010	Rolf Winkler (high fountain) Rainer Hascher (water feature)	The approximately six meter high cast stone well was completely removed in the 1990s. After a completely new development, the Storkower Arch , was built in the area instead of the social center , the management had a water feature with several fountains set up in a fountain basin in place of the earlier ornamental fountain. The whereabouts of the fountain sculpture (a column with eight bowls arranged in pairs and offset from one another at different heights) is not known. The newly created fountain, which was also planned by the architect of the complex, is a knee-high, large-scale, curved artificial stone basin with several movable nozzles, surrounding seating and a pump house designed as an abstract figure ( Storki ).
Fr.	Ceramic fountain	Street Alt-Friedrichsfelde 99 location	1981	Jürgen Karnopp	Desolate state; neither recognizable as a fountain nor as jewelry remains. The tiled basin is shaped as a semicircle with an area of ​​3.60 m × 8 m. Its abstract ceramic bodies of various shapes were between 20 and 75 centimeters high. They contained gargoyles and also invited people to sit down. The system is bordered by ceramic planters towards the road. Only the tiled floor with its border and a few nozzles and remains of objects still bear witness to the original function of the dilapidated play fountain. more pictures
Fr.	Potions	in front of the street Alt-Friedrichsfelde 123 to Robert-Uhrig-Straße Lage	1984	Günter Thüre	Not in use since 1990. The two long, rectangular fountain basins are planted. Between them are three free-form sandstone structures (2.20 m, 2.40 m and 2.90 m high) with shallow hollows in which water can collect on three limestone wells.
Fr.	Small fountain or ball fountain	in the courtyard between Charlottenstrasse, Köpitzer Strasse and Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse location	1987	Hannes Warscycek (architect, painter, graphic artist) and Horst Scholz (sculptor, stonemason)	Restarted after a pipe burst in 2013 to 2016. In the middle of a five-step staircase stands a massive octagonal basin with a quartered sphere in it. A lying hemisphere with a diameter of 1.60 m is attached to the top edge of the pool, in which an upright hemisphere with a diameter of one meter is incorporated. The water flows out of the top ball, runs down it via a spout into the middle of the four-part ball, then passes through a drain into a collecting slot and from there back into the circuit. - All the fountain elements are made of reddish sandstone.
Fr.	Theodor Fontane Fountain	Dathepromenade location	1982	Hans-Detlev Hennig	In a basin with a diameter of 4.50 m there is a 2.70 m thick and three meter high round concrete base with a metal relief ring at eye level. The reliefs show some typical Brandenburg landscape and village situations over a total area of ​​around three meters in length and 80 cm in height. In between there is a quote from the foreword of the hikes through the Mark Brandenburg : “Only the foreign teaches us what we have about home. Fontane . "
Fr.	Ball fountain	Dolgenseestrasse location	1975	Manfred Ebeling	Several spheres, made of artificial stone, rest in a round basin (diameter 6.50 m). The spherical fountain in the middle is 1.50 m high, here are jets of water from six fine nozzles.
Fr.	Plants and fruits	Einbecker Straße 85, on the lawn in front of a retirement home location	1982	Christina Renker, Alfred Bernau	Not working. A ceramic column about 1.60 m high rises on a round fountain, from which a low fountain gushed at the top. Calyxes and fruit are depicted on the sides of the well, from which fine jets of water could emerge from the sides. The octagonal artificial stone basin has now been planted.
Fr.	Spree and Havel fountain	Dathepromenade location	1982	Dietrich Grüning	The unclothed, oversized female bodies are supported with their buttocks on a cone that closes a water bell. They float almost horizontally at eye level with the viewer. The figures are made of bronze and symbolize the two typical rivers of Berlin, Spree and Havel . The water is located in a lower-lying octagonal basin with a diameter of six meters, surrounded by granite stones. It is evenly pumped up through the well
Fr.	The cog	Gensinger Strasse in front of a former department store location	1982	Nikolaus Bode	Not functional since after 2003. The approximately four meter high fountain sculpture is made of white polyester resin and stands in a round concrete basin (diameter 6.50 m). Fish heads can be found on the well as gargoyles. In 2000, the Senate announced that it would have the cog fountain renovated for 30,000  marks ; the annual maintenance cost alone cost 19,000 marks. Either the renovation did not take place or the vandals were faster, in any case the water has been switched off for years. The Lichtenberg district office was looking for an investor for the entire former social center ( Kalinka restaurant , service cube, department store and fountain) and found him in the company HIT in 2014. Now single-family houses are being built on the area and the Brunnen-Kogge is to be included in the new development area become. The entire housing project was even given the name “Kogge-Viertel”.
Fr.	Märkischer Brunnen at the zoo	Heinrich-Dathe-Platz location	1982	Christiane Wartenberg	The well was cut off from the water supply around 1992; The district office had the eight wells, symbolic depictions of animals and people, renovated in 2011 and set up as a small art gallery in a new location opposite the entrance to the animal park's bear shop window. They stand on the original masonry pillars made of hand-cut clinker bricks; some of the commonly red bricks for the pillars are glazed green and blue. Today they flank the square in front of the Am Tierpark shopping center . Originally the fountain ensemble was divided into three groups: four large wells with water-spouting women's heads, crowned by water-spraying animal heads, were grouped around a central small water basin. Two narrow basins led on one side into a basin with three wells, on the other side into a larger basin with five wells (see picture above). The sculpture design returns in a plastic group Märkische Wegkreuzze by the same artist on Dathepromenade.
Fr.	Water play area beach Plansche	Mellenseestraße 1 / Dolgenseestraße location	2009	Cassens and Siewert office	A simple paddling pool that already existed in the past has been expanded so that there are now several play options for the little visitors on a low hill: a spray system, a hand pump, three drainage channels (controllable with weirs), a mud area.
Fr.	Spring fountain with sandstone sculpture	Robert Uhrig Street, Massower front of a former department store corner Street location	1983	Karl-Günter Möpert	Closed after 1993. In 1993 it said: “The designed source stone stands on a small plinth in a well filled with water that is embedded in a low platform. The platform and trough are covered with paving stones. The facility and the square radiate soothing calmness. ”- The hollow with a diameter of 5.80 meters is in turn located in a square with side lengths of more than seven meters, designed with small paving. In the center is the statically balanced sandstone egg one meter high on a narrow, round concrete base. It stimulates the imagination - for example, the crowded, vertically offset outgrowth could be a stylized skyline or a burst egg, from which fossils are pushing towards the sky. Also stalactites are conceivable, or running from the top of the Oval gentle ups symbolize roots - the outgrowth would be a chipped tree trunk. The artist has not made a substantive statement.
Fr.	Bremen Town Musicians	Volkradstraße 28, courtyard of the Lage retirement home	1967	Karl Lemke	Bronze fountain attachment, originally within a square basin in the Volkradstrasse passage built in 1967. During the demolition of the passage in 2002/2003 in the former Hans-Loch-Viertel from the time of the GDR, the fountain sculpture was saved from scrapping by a courageous entrepreneur. Since then, it has stood not far from the original location in the courtyard of a newly built nursing home.
Fr.	Fountain	Tierpark Berlin location	1955 (opening of the zoo)	unknown	Two cascading fountains in a 48 m × 17 m large, sandstone basin, directly in front of Friedrichsfelde Palace . more pictures
Fr.	spring	Tierpark Berlin location	1961-1964	Senta Baldamus	Shut down. Drip fountain in the pavilion on the Lenné hill ("Lenné Temple"), in the former palace gardens of Friedrichsfelde ; with a bronze sculpture of a naked, teasing, young couple. more pictures
Fr.	Children with water-spouting fish	Tierpark Berlin location	1963	Walter Lerche	Shut down. Bronze fountain on the edge of the goose pond, an original paddling pool at the children's playground. A little naked boy and a little naked girl are holding together a large fish whose mouth served as a water dispenser.
Fr.	Crocodile fountain	Tierpark Berlin location	1963	Gerhard Hurte	Image in: stadtentwicklung.berlin.de Your own photos are not in the public domain. Representation of two crocodiles entwined in mosaic technique. A small fountain gushes from the vertically protruding mouth of one of the animals. Round pool in the main entrance hall of the Alfred Brehm House. Erected in 1963.
Fr.	Seagull fountain	Tierpark Berlin location	1967	Dietrich Rohde	Bronze sculpture of a swarm of gulls in the center of a rock-filled circular fountain near the gull aviary. Established in 2001.
Fr.	Sea lion on ball	Tierpark Berlin location	1999	Otto Maerker	Bronze sculpture in the center of a small stone-filled fountain at the entrance to the cafeteria. Erected in 1999.
Fr.	Jumping pike	Tierpark Berlin location	1958	Walter Sutkowski	Bronze fountain in the canal south of the reconstructed south parterre of the former Friedrichsfelde palace park . The fountain consists of a tight group of four pike replicas and was erected in 1961.
Ka	nameless	Rheinsteinpark location	before 1970	unknown	A high fountain, out of function since the 1990s, planted round basins.
Ka	drinking fountain	Johannes-Fest-Platz location	2012	Berliner Wasserbetriebe / Siegfried Kaiser	Fountain type 1
Li	Drip well	Josef-Orlopp-Straße 13, in the garden of the “Professor Dr. Kurt Winter “ Location	before 1993	Conrad Hunger	Not in use. A clown was beaten out of granite, he is balancing a dice on his head. He spat out water that dripped over his body. The figure is about two meters tall and stands on a low pedestal made of cobblestones .
Li	4 youths	Josef-Orlopp-Strasse, in the building of Konsum Berlin location	1913		Not in use Four naked boys are evenly grouped around a stone fountain column, each with their elbows hooked. A frog prince crouches in the middle of the approximately two meter high column of the fountain . The column stands in a round basin, the inside of which is decorated with leaf ornaments. For some years now, only the fountain sculpture has adorned the foyer of the consumer administration.
Li	Children playing	Courtyard of the BVG apartment block In the courtyard area Siegfriedstrasse /, Rüdigerstrasse / Hagenstrasse location	around 1930	unknown	Not in use. Eight playing, naked children leaned over the edge of a large round fountain bowl. The bowl stood on an octagonal pedestal in the center of the courtyard. The water supply was shut off as early as the mid-1950s. When the residential buildings were renovated after the political change and the courtyard was redesigned, the children disappeared with the bowl, only the stair landing in the middle of the lawn remained.
Li	Sea lions in a paddling pool	City park Lichtenberg location	around 1960	unknown	Not in use. Two sea ​​lions , made of artificial stone and barely a meter high, could spew water from their mouths. The figures stand on the edge of a flat, polygonal pool of water (diameter around 20 meters) and lean on their forefins. The water has stopped bubbling for a long time.
Li	Large ceramic fountain	Schulze-Boysen-Strasse location	1974	Rudolf Kaiser	A drip fountain set up in front of a former department store; the original design with ceramic fountain bowls on six wells was lost due to vandalism. In a ceramics studio, the district office had slightly differently designed parts placed on the shortened fountain steles. The square basin made of artificial stone and with ceramic cladding measures seven meters on the side and, including the stele for the spheres, reaches a height of seven meters. The topmost droplet ball is 2.50 m above the water level.
Li	Bird tree or bird bath	Schulze-Boysen-Strasse	1987	Monika Spiess	A 1.90 m high, stylized, oversized bird's nest with three hollows as a bird bath develops from a cube-shaped pedestal. The birds made of concrete look bulky and seem oversized compared to the nest. The artwork cannot be found (2016, 2017).
Li	fountain	on the premises of the KEH , as an extension of Herzbergstrasse Lage	around 1900, in connection with the construction of the hospital	unknown	In the center of a round lawn is a water basin about ten meters in diameter with a central metal nozzle for a fountain. Below that, several smaller nozzles emit water jets sideways. The well basin is walled up from seven layers of lying bricks. It ends with a massive wreath made of sandstone. The green area in front of the former main building of the hospital is surrounded by seating, artistic sculptures and flower beds that are well-tended in summer.
Li	Bubble stones, erratic fountains	In front of the administration building of Berliner Luft Technik GmbH in Herzbergstrasse Lage	around 1980	unknown	The fountain was installed by the builder of the administration building, the GDR company Lufttechnische Anlagen . Several boulders of different sizes lie in a flat well basin made up of individual rectangles. Water gushes out of the largest stone, which comes from the region around Velten . The successor company Berliner Luft GmbH had the small fountain restored and continues to maintain it.
Li	nameless	Park of the Oskar Ziethen Hospital location		unknown	Boulders on a granite slab
Li	Fisherman's well or young man with fish	Stefan-Heym-Platz on Möllendorffstraße / corner of Frankfurter Allee Lage	1925/1933	Hans Latt	Before 1940, the bronze sculpture of the young man with a fish stood in a simple fountain in the Lichtenberg City Park . After 1950, when the ruins of the building that had been destroyed on the corner of Frankfurter Allee were cleared away, the figure was placed in a new, larger basin at its current location. more pictures On the occasion of the construction of a new residential complex in the immediate vicinity from 2017, the client, Howoge , had the well dismantled and stored. After completion of the building it will be put up again.
Li	Well with boy	Central cemetery Friedrichsfelde location	unknown	Erwin Kobbert	The 60 cm high figure of a naked boy, carved from limestone, adorns the edge of a sink. She had no head for a few years. In the 2010s, the cemetery administration had the figure restored. The water supply to the well basin is switched off.
Li	Thoughtful	Central cemetery Friedrichsfelde location	unknown	unknown	Not in use. The fountain basin is made of red porphyry and has a diameter of 3.70 m. The sandstone sculpture is 80 centimeters high and represents a nude figure. Her left leg is propped up, her right hand is holding (holding) her in the basin under a water inlet. The figure's head is chopped off. Around the fountain, which has its place in the urn garden, were at least three benches, of which only the concrete feet are left (as of May 2017).
LI	drinking fountain	Herzbergstrasse	around 2019		Type 1 drinking fountain is located at the level of the tram stop in front of the southern entrance to the KEH
NH	Mill wheel fountain	At the Mühlengrund location	1986	Achim Kühn	The fountain was out of service from the end of the 1990s. After protests from the population and the artist's objections, it was saved from demolition: the district office had it renewed in 2015, and Kühn had reworked the sculptures. Since 2016 it has been delighting residents again during the fountain season. more pictures
NH	Fountain of youth	Stadtplatz Wartenberger- corner Wustrower Strasse location	2002	Senta Baldamus	A granite fountain bowl rises from a concrete water basin. A mother stands as a central fountain figure on the columnar granite base located in it. On the edge of the fountain bowl, she is surrounded by eight children's figures. The water flows at the feet of the mother figure from a hemispherical opening into the bowl below and from there over the edge into the large fountain basin. more pictures
NH	Crane fountain	Zingster Strasse / Ribnitzer Strasse location	1988	Sonja Eschefeld	Not in use. The well, made of a deepened and paved depression in the ground, is formed by two bronze cranes spreading their wings , which in turn are located on a concrete base in the middle of the well. The basin is bordered with large field stones. As a fountain, it is no longer in use, the figures in a rondel of crossing footpaths form a sculpture that enhances the environment .
NH	Bowl fountain	Zingster Straße in front of the swimming pool location	1993	Herbert Dreiseitl	The heart of the system is a four-meter high up slimmer expectant Bronze - stele , on which two are also made of bronze bowls attached. Above the first bowl, the water emerges through a few openings in a slight curve and falls onto the sharply inclined, tapered and open bowl. The bowl located diagonally below catches the water, and from here it runs into a shallow, irregularly shaped pond with small cobblestones , up to seven meters long. It finally disappears into a drain via a channel on a staircase-shaped system.
NH	Sparrow Fountain	Falkenberger Chaussee 134-136 in front of the Brunnen pharmacy Lage	after 1989	unknown	The approximately 60 cm high fountain in the form of a casket with a domed lid is clad all around with small, colorful mosaic stones. From its upper surface, water flows out on all sides under a baffle plate. Two metal sparrows, slightly larger than life size, sit on either side of the plate and bathe in the puddle. Before 1990 the building of the pharmacy and the doctor's office was a combination of children, there was no fountain.
NH	drinking fountain	Zingster Straße near the swimming pool and bowl fountain location	2012	Berliner Wasserbetriebe	Fountain type 1
NH	Water feature	Neubrandenburger Strasse 21–23 in the district park Neubrandenburger Strasse Lage	2020	unknown	The water feature consists of a spray column, two spray pumps, a fountain hopper and a hand pump. Spray pumps and fountain hoppers are considered special water fun in playgrounds. No sand was used to prevent contamination of adjacent surfaces and clogging of the drainage system. The system is supplied with solar power.
Ru	drinking fountain	Weitlingstraße , in front of the Lichtenberg train station. Location	2016	Berliner Wasserbetriebe	Fountain type 2 , near the bus stop.

Wells no longer available

OT	Surname	Address / location	year	Artist	Brief description and picture
Fe	Clinker fountain	Bernhard-Bästlein-Straße 30 location	around 1975		The well, in which the water poured out of a pipe in the wall and fell into a semicircular basin, has been largely destroyed. The clinker brick wall is densely planted on both sides, so that the original structure can hardly be seen.
Fr.	Märkisches Milieu or bird bath	Green area next to the indoor swimming pool in Sewanstrasse location	1981	Sonja Eschefeld	The jewelry system consisted of three parts: a vertical 83 centimeter thick spiral, one meter high, next to it two parts that were no longer preserved in 1993 (and therefore cannot be described in more detail). Ceramic was used as the material for all parts . A detailed on-site inspection in April 2017 revealed that all parts had been removed. Two manhole covers framed concentrically with paving stones, offset in height, mark the former location of the well.
Ka	nameless	Hegemeisterweg corner Liepnitzstraße location	around 1920	probably by the architect Peter Behrens and Rudolf Gleye mitgeplant	In an octagonal basin made of roughly hewn granite stones stood a square column made of the same material. The ornamental fountain was considered a traffic obstacle and was removed in the 1960s.
Ka	Replica of the Lourdes grotto with four springs	Köpenicker Allee at the former St. Antonius Hospital location	1932		In September 1932, a replica of the Lourdes Grotto was inaugurated in the garden of the St. Antonius Hospital, donated by patients: “On a small hill behind the hospital, an artistically laid out tuff stone structure frames a 1.30 m high figure of the Mother of God . Four springs gush out of the stone, forming a small stream in front of the grotto. Below the figure are the words 'Salve Immaculata' on a marble tablet. How long this plant was on the hospital premises is not known. "
Ka	Fountain (noun)	in the Seepark Karlshorst location	before 1914		The Seepark, created in 1913, was an extensive park with “fountains, imaginative planting and varied bank design” . The facilities were destroyed and disappeared during the Second World War and in the post-war period .
Li	Fountain with a kneeling boy	Central cemetery Friedrichsfelde location	after 1950	Figure: Georg Tyllack	A boy sat on a square fountain basin (two meters on the side) with a bouquet of flowers in his hands. The 90 centimeter tall wooden figure bears the name “ Tyllack” on the left sole of the foot ; it was restored in the 2010s and painted weatherproof with brown paint. Now it stands on a pedestal elsewhere in the cemetery; the well basin is removed.
Li	Children's fountain	Central cemetery Friedrichsfelde location		unknown	Dismantled, already badly damaged in 1993. The octagonal, elongated fountain basin protruded sixty centimeters above the ground. The inner surfaces of the limestone complex were lined with broken turquoise tiles. On the edge of the fountain, a girl and a boy sat opposite each other, each about 80 centimeters high and clothed. After observation in January 2017, the well was removed from its original location. The stone sculptures were given a new place on opposite stone pedestals. They mark the entrance to a communal urn facility.
Li	Mosaic fountain	Siegfriedstrasse opposite the BVG depot Lichtenberg Lage	1973	Adam Kurtz	Inoperative since the 1990s, completely demolished in 2020, a heap of rubble with a few mosaic stones and a hexagonal construction fence still shows the former location. The ensemble of buildings of the former construction workers' hotels including the fountain was sold to a private owner around 2007. Four side-facing, centrally mounted nozzles emitted fountains that fell into the mosaic- designed artificial stone basin (four meters in diameter). The mosaic symbolized the sun and moon, sky, earth and water. It was embedded in a raised concrete shell that had an outer diameter of five meters and a height of about half a meter. The owner had neither money nor interest in receiving the work of art, as a brief inquiry in 2013 revealed.
Ru	Small fountain	Nöldnerplatz location		Erwin Kobbert	A rectangular fountain basin measuring 1.35 mx 1.60 m stood on a low pedestal. In the middle of the basin, a sandstone child figure rose on a small plinth . She wore a kerchief around her loin, which she held behind her back with both hands or knotted it. Children's masks on the sides spewed water into the basin. Small round openings let the well water flow to smaller collecting basins in front and behind. The ornamental fountain had been out of service since the early 1980s and the basin was initially planted. On request, the district office replied in May 2017: “In the course of the redesign of Nöldnerplatz, demolition of the no longer functional well. The children's sculpture was initially placed on the newly created children's playground. After serious damage to property (head of the plastic was stolen), the plastic was dismantled and stored. A restoration / reconstruction is not planned. "
Ru	Hungarian fountain drinking fountain	Rosenfelder Ring, on a schoolyard location	1970	Lore Plietsch	initially shut down in the 1990s. With the demolition of both school buildings in the residential area, the well disappeared completely. Fresh drinking water flowed from the tap of a 1.70 m high well into a trough below and from there into a drain. On request, the district office replied in May 2017: “Dismantled in connection with the demolition of the school. Well trough initially stored; later his track is lost, so the whereabouts are unknown. "
Ru	Easter pyramid	Rosenfelder Ring 15, in front of the Lage Medical Center	1972	Karl Lemke	initially planted in the 1990s. No longer available at the specified location in the 2010s, but there is a female bronze statue here. A well stock was located in a pentagonal concrete basin (side length 3.10 m). Around this, pentagonal concrete slabs were arranged in a pyramid shape. The water came out upwards and drained off the pyramid. The material was already ailing in 1993. On request, the district office replied in May 2017: “With the redesign - Birkenhain - eliminated. Has nothing to do with the location of the bronze sculpture. "

Drinking fountain of the water company

Type 2 drinking fountain at Lichtenberg train station

Since the 1980s, the city water supplier, Berliner Wasserbetriebe , has been operating drinking fountains with a connection to the public drinking water supply network . They were designed by artists and are located throughout Berlin's urban area in public places, preferably in highly frequented places. As of mid-2018, there are 48 such free and unattended water dispensers.

In Lichtenberg there were three drinking fountains up to 2018 (see list), for 2019 the locations Anton-Saefkow-Platz , in front of the Max-Taut-Schule on Nöldnerplatz and in the zoo Friedrichsfelde have been agreed between the district office and the water company .

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In addition, another type 1 fountain was set up on the extended Herzbergstrasse.

To the problem of the disused wells

When asked how to deal with the existing, drained systems, the owners of the areas on which the works of art are located must always be heard according to applicable laws. Since the fountains are also subject to copyright law, the artists have a decisive say. If they do not agree to renovation work, a change of location or even a demolition, the office's hands are tied. However, shortly after the political change , this copyright law was repeatedly disregarded. The interviewed artists Christiane Wartenberg and Friedrich Schötschel knew nothing about repositioning or even demolition work.

The mill wheel fountain in Neu-Hohenschönhausen is a typical example: Experts estimated a renovation and recommissioning at a sum of around 400,000 euros, as the Lichtenberg City Councilor Wilfried Nünthel ( CDU ) announced on request in 2012. The artist Achim Kühn refused any renovation work and asked for it to be restarted. After clarifying the financing, Kühn dismantled the metal mill wheel with the bubble figure in spring 2014 and restored it in his workshop in Berlin-Bohnsdorf . The district office now ensured that the original fountain was almost completely restored. In front of the press representatives, District Councilor Wilfried Nünthel started the fountain season in spring 2015.

The same applies to the fountains as it does to sculptures: parts of the facilities stored by the district office can be left to new property owners or investors for repositioning if there is a desire for more jewelry in the living area. The municipality is then no longer responsible for these plants. However, the district office refuses to disclose the stored wells or works of art by name; However, the Education, Culture, Social Affairs and Sport department with its Office for Further Education and Culture is ready to negotiate specific ideas individually.

See also

• List of street fountains in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg

literature

• Sylva Brösicke-Istok, Gabriela Ivan, Romy Köcher, Hans Schlegel: sculptures, monuments and fountains in the Lichtenberg district . Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein , catalog, September 1993, ISBN 3-89542-012-3 .
• Dieter Breitenborn: Berlin water games . Berlin, VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, 1974. 80 pp.

Web links

Commons : Fountain in the Lichtenberg district  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Public fountain in Berlin: Lichtenberg ( Memento from May 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
• Berliner Wasserbetriebe: Berliner Wasserbetriebe - Zierbrunnen in Berlin. In: bwb.de. Retrieved February 10, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Wasserbetriebe: Wasserbetriebe take over Berlin's public wells. In: bwb.de. March 6, 2019, accessed February 10, 2020 . 
2. ^ Project Fontänenfeld in front of the Allee Center , accessed on January 21, 2017.
3. ↑ Monika Arnold: A new place thanks to citizens' dialogue . In: Berliner Morgenpost (online), published in April 2014.
4. ↑ Monika Arnold: "Ceramic water wall" becomes a planting aid - jewelry fountain, part 2. In: Berliner Morgenpost (online), published on November 22, 2011.
5. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Foundlingsbrunnen
6. ↑ Monika Arnold: “Korallenbrunnen” becomes a concrete sculpture ( Memento from January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In Berliner Morgenpost (online), published in January 2013; accessed on January 29, 2017.
7. ↑ Möwenbrunnen at www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de; accessed on January 22, 2017.
8. ↑ Monika Arnold: Once upon a time there were many neat little fountains… . In: Berliner Morgenpost (online), published on November 21, 2011.
9. ↑ Monika Arnold: A steamer has now docked in the Storkower Bogen. In: Berliner Morgenpost (online), published in July 2013.
10. ↑ Monika Arnold: These planters are the remains of a ceramic fountain . In: Berliner Morgenpost (online), published on March 21, 2014.
11. ↑ Fontane-Brunnen on www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de
12. ↑ Monika Arnold: The Lichtenberg fountains can flow again . In: Berliner Morgenpost (online), published on March 30, 2014.
13. ↑ Kugelbrunnen II at www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de, accessed on January 22, 2017.
14. ^ Sculptures, monuments, fountains in Berlin (Lichtenberg) ... , p. 20.
15. ↑ Fatina Keilani: Strieder lets hundreds of thousands flow for fountains In: welt.de, published on March 30, 2000, accessed on February 2, 2017.
16. ↑ Not all wells flow ... In: www.lichtenbergmarzahnplus.de; accessed on February 2, 2017.
17. ↑ Karolina Wrobel: Shopping center should give way to single-family houses In: Berliner Woche , January 9, 2014; accessed on January 29, 2017.
18. ↑ Kogge-Brunnen on www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de; accessed on January 22, 2017.
19. ↑ Monika Arnold: "Märkischer Brunnen" at the zoo - beautiful ceramic figures without water ( Memento from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: Berliner Morgenpost (Online), published December 12, 2013. Accessed January 19, 2017.
20. ↑ Beach water play area at www.stadtentwicklung-berlin.de; accessed on January 28, 2017.
21. ↑ Monika Arnold: A sandstone egg that inspires the imagination ( Memento from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Berliner Morgenpost (online), published on July 10, 2014; accessed on January 29, 2017.
22. ↑ Erhard Weinholz: Friedrichsfelder picture postcard . In: Das Blättchen , 10th year, Berlin, September 17, 2007, issue 19
23. ^ Sculptures, monuments and fountains in the Lichtenberg district ... , p. 25.
24. ↑ The attribution to Hans-Peter Goettsche is incorrect.
25. ^ Sculptures, monuments and fountains in the Lichtenberg district ... , p. 29.
26. ↑ Monika Arnold: From "Rainforest" to "Ceramic Fountain" . In: Berliner Morgenpost (online), published on December 18, 2012.
27. ↑ Large ceramic fountain at www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de; Retrieved January 19, 2017.
28. ^ Sculptures, monuments and fountains in the Lichtenberg district , ... p. 30.
29. ↑ View and brief description of the bird tree on sculpture in Berlin , accessed on April 8, 2020.
30. ↑ Citizens' Dialogue: Stefan-Heym-Platz , accessed on April 8, 2020.
31. ↑ ^{a b c} Sculptures, monuments and fountains in the Lichtenberg district, ... p. 22/23.
32. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Kranichbrunnen , accessed in 2012.
33. ↑ Bowl fountain at www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de.
34. ^ Monika Arnold: The wet corner in Neu-Hohenschönhausen ; Berliner Morgenpost (online), published May 8, 2014.
35. ^ Lichtenberg opens new water feature - Neighborhood Park Neubrandenburger Straße. In: Press release from the Berlin-Lichtenberg district office. July 24, 2020, accessed July 24, 2020 . 
36. ↑ New drinking fountain bubbles in front of Lichtenberg train station on www.berliner-lokalnachichten.de
37. ^ Sculptures, monuments and fountains in the Lichtenberg district ... , p. 38.
38. ↑ Ralph Schmiedecke: Berlin-Lichtenberg through the ages , Sutton-Verlag, p. 89/90.
39. ↑ 100 years of Karlshorst: History of a villa and country house settlement . be.bra Verlag, Berlin 1995, p. 76.
40. ↑ 110 years of Karlshorst. Highlights of the history of a Berlin district . Kulturring in Berlin e. V., Berlin 2005, p. 27.
41. ↑ 100 years of Karlshorst. Seniors write down their memories. The Seepark was an oasis ; published April 3, 1995, accessed February 7, 2017.
42. ↑ Communicated by the Lichtenberg district office on request from 44Pinguine in May 2017. After a careful search, the revised figure was discovered and photographed.
43. ↑ Monika Arnold: Only dried fish in the mosaic fountain . In: Berliner Morgenpost (online), published on March 4, 2013; accessed on January 22, 2017.
44. ^ Sculptures, monuments and fountains in the Lichtenberg district; ... p. 32/33.
45. ↑ ^{a b} Sculptures, monuments and fountains in the Lichtenberg district ... , p. 36.
46. ↑ Christian Gehrke: Against thirst. In: Berliner Zeitung , August 2, 2018, p. 13.
47. ^ Berliner Wasserbetriebe: Drinking fountain in Berlin. In: bwb.de. Retrieved February 10, 2020 . 

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