List of wells in Wuppertal

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The list of wells in Wuppertal includes existing and former well systems and water features in Wuppertal .

With a few exceptions, wells that are open to the public or belong to municipal institutions are listed. In contrast to stairs , which are plentiful in the city, the cityscape of Wuppertal is not rich in fountains. This can be seen, among other things, in the low number of wells placed under monument protection. These are the fairy tale fountain , the justice fountain , the jubilee fountain , the fountain with putti in Adolf-Vorwerk-Strasse at the Toelleturm , the fountain on the school grounds Eichenstrasse am Rott , the Jahn memorial fountain in Ronsdorf , the decorative wall fountain on Kölner Strasse as well since April 2016 also the bleacher fountain on the Wupperfeld market.

One of the best known and largest is the anniversary fountain, inaugurated in 1901 on the Elberfeld Neumarkt . With his revealing representations, this triggered violent controversies at the time, which divided the population of the city of Elberfeld into two camps.

The list is arranged chronologically according to the construction and does not claim to be complete.

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Before the 19th century (-1869)

The well house
Well house
... in the small park “Am Born” on Borner Strasse in Cronenberg
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 12 ′ 25 ″ N, 7 ° 7 ′ 46 ″ E
  • Erected: unknown time before or in the 18th century - with a new fountain from 1980
  • Status: received
  • Description: The exact age of the former draw well has not been recorded. It is located in front of the pastorate built in 1750 and supplied the Cronenberg population with drinking water until 1888 . Then the Drei-Kaiser-Wasserturm was put into operation. After the Second World War , the well could temporarily be used as a supplier of drinking water. The well house was restored in 1971/72 and the green area around the well was expanded in 1980. At the same time, an old grindstone , from which water now gushes up in the middle, was built next to the well house and inaugurated on August 15, 1980.
God's fountain at the Tütersburg in Wichlinghausen
God's fountain
… At Tütersburg in Barmen, near Wichlinghauser Markt
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 17 ′ 3 ″ N, 7 ° 12 ′ 55 ″ E
  • Erected: in the 1780s
  • Status: received
  • Description: The fountain was built around 1780 to 1785 near the Wichlinghauser Markt and was one of four former fountains in the Oberbarm district of Wichlinghausen. It was originally a spring set in stone, which could initially be closed with an iron grille and later with a double-leaf wooden door. After the Second World War the well was badly dilapidated and it was planned to be completely walled up. In 1975 the fountain was restored as part of a NRW program, and the inscription was also renewed. The last digit of the inscription had not been legible for decades, so the date was 1781. The restoration was completed with the inauguration on May 9, 1981. Now the Gottesbrünnlein no longer receives its water from a spring, but is connected to the city's drinking water network. The fountain system was supplemented with 24 seats and bushes.
Fountain in the grounds of Villa Dahl
fountain
... on the former front of Villa Dahl in Unterbarmen
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 15 ′ 37 ″ N, 7 ° 10 ′ 37 ″ E
  • Erected: around 1834
  • Status: no longer in operation
  • Description: Around 1834 the architect Johann Peter Cremer built a summer residence in Unterbarmen for the Elberfeld merchant Carl Feldhoff . The southern-style building had a large garden with a fountain in front of its former main front. After a renovation, the main entrance is now from the other side, from Schlossstrasse, which was named after this castle-like house known as Dahls Schloss . The well with the well bowl supported by a column is still damaged and no longer in operation. Access to the garden is only permitted with permission.

Imperial era (1871-1918)

Bleacher fountain on the Wupperfeld market
Bleacher Well
... on the Wupperfeld market
Fairytale fountain
Fairytale fountain
... in the Zooviertel, at the intersection of Wotan, Baldur, Donar and Jägerstraße
Main article: Fairytale fountain
Victory Fountain
... in front of the former district building in Vohwinkel, which later became the municipal children's home on Gräfrather Straße
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 13 ′ 47 ″ N, 7 ° 4 ′ 11 ″ E
  • Established: 1900
  • Status: not preserved, probably destroyed in World War II
  • Description: In front of the Vohwinkler District Office on Gräfrather Straße was the victory fountain, which was created from granite by the Düsseldorf sculptor Gustav Rutz . The inauguration of the Victory Fountain by Wilhelm II on October 24, 1900 was a popular picture postcard motif at the time. The figure of the goddess of victory was made in galvanized bronze based on a design by Rutz . The fountain had a platform 25 meters wide and a water basin from which the water cascaded towards the viewer. The fate of the fountain is not entirely clear; it was probably destroyed in the Second World War.
Jubilee fountain (Wuppertal)
Jubilee fountain
... on the Neumarkt in Elberfeld
Main article: Jubilee fountain
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 15 ′ 32 ″ N, 7 ° 8 ′ 48 ″ E
  • Established: 1901
  • Status: received
  • Description: The listed anniversary fountain (also known as the Neptune fountain ) on Neumarkt in Elberfeld was donated in 1895 by the Elberfeld Beautification Association on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. The 11.5 meter high fountain made of red Main sandstone was created in 1900/1901 by the Düsseldorf sculptor Leo Müsch (1846–1911). The multi-curved basin with a diameter of eight meters is located on a step substructure. The sea ​​god , mermaids and sea ​​monsters are depicted here . A three-meter high Neptune and accessories rises on a three-storey structure . The structure is lively with tritons , putti and dolphins . The revealing depiction of Neptune, in the form of the anatomically correct modeled pubic region, indignant the moralists at the time - for them the figures were all too clearly masculine. In this heated debate, self-proclaimed people's educators made short work of themselves and overnight knocked off outstanding parts of two corner figures of the fountain.
Figure group and fountain
... on the plateau below the Bergisches Haus on the Hardt in Elberfeld
  • Geographical location:
  • Established: 1902
  • Status: no longer received
  • Description: A fountain for the park was purchased from the Wichelhaus legacy in 1902 by the Hardt Association. Since there was something left over from the budget, a group of figures with a motif from the fairy tale Little Brother and Sister by the Brothers Grimm could be financed. The fountain consisted of a three-tier fountain bowl and was located below the Bergisches Haus . It is not known how long the well was there.
Goldsmith's Fountain
... in the courtyard of what was then the boys' middle school on Brandenburger Strasse, now Pfalzgrafenstrasse in Elberfeld
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 14 ′ 49 ″ N, 7 ° 8 ′ 41 ″ E
  • Established: 1910
  • Status: not received
  • Description: On the occasion of Elberfeld's three-century celebration in 1910, the jeweler Karl Schmitz (1854–1910) donated the goldsmith's fountain for the construction of the boys' secondary school on Brandenburger Strasse. The sculptor who worked on the three meter high fountain was Friedrich Coubillier . It consisted of a granite basin two meters in diameter with a square base protruding from the center. On the pedestal was a figure of a medieval goldsmith made of bronze at a height of two meters . At the edge of the pool there were six sodas for drinking. At the beginning of the Second World War, the bronze figure is said to have still been there; it was probably melted down for armament purposes. When the school was expanded in 1967/1969, the fountain basin was removed.
Well of Justice
Well of Justice
... on the Republic Square in Elberfeld
Main article: Fountain of Justice
  • Geographical location: 51 ° 15 ′ 52 ″ N, 7 ° 9 ′ 4 ″ E
  • Established: 1910
  • Status: received; Reconstructed bronze figure
  • Description: Also on the occasion of Elberfeld's three-century celebration in 1910, the now listed Fountain of Justice was inaugurated on the Platz der Republik in Elberfeld. The founder of this fountain was the Secret Commerce Councilor August Freiherr von der Heydt . Bernhard Hoetger was the sculptor of the female figure based on a nude drawing “Weighing” . The architect Kuno Riemann designed the fountain basin from Kirchheim shell limestone with a copper rim. A basilisk spouting water was at the feet of the female figure. The large fountain, which looks like a gigantic baptismal font, is supported by lying lions on cast iron. The lions themselves spit water from their mouths into drainage pipes that are embedded in a stone mosaic. During the Nazi era, Hoetger was considered degenerate and the fountain figure was melted down during World War II. From 1957 to 1959, with the help of the sculptor Fritz Bernuth, the remaining fountain system, from which no more water ran, was restored. In 1989 the fountain was restored again, moved a few meters and connected to the water supply again. On the initiative of Hans-Joachim Camphausen, the fountain sculpture was reconstructed in 2011 with private funds by the sculptor Schwan Kamal . It was rebuilt at his workplace, the Rolf Kayser foundry in Düsseldorf. The fountain substructure was renovated in spring 2012, the sculpture weighing around one ton was erected on June 18, 2012 and unveiled on June 24, 2012.
Fountain on the Von-der-Heydt sports field
Fountain on the Von-der-Heydt sports field
... sm Freudenberg in Elberfeld
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 14 ′ 37 ″ N, 7 ° 9 ′ 34 ″ E
  • Established: 1910
  • Status: received
  • Description: Also on the occasion of Elberfeld's three-century celebration in 1910, a sports and playground was inaugurated on the former von der Heydt'schen Weide on Freudenberg . August Freiherr von der Heydt had leased the land to the city and his wife Selma Freifrau von der Heydt , in turn, transferred the required lease sum to the body care association as a contribution. At the time, the square was considered the largest sports facility in the Bergisches Land. The fountain, from which water runs in three pipes into three semicircular basins of different sizes, was restored in 1966.
Jahn fountain
Jahn fountain
... next to the gym on Scheidtstrasse in Ronsdorf
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 13 ′ 51 ″ N, 7 ° 11 ′ 53 ″ E
  • Established: 1910
  • Status: no longer in operation
  • Description: On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Ronsdorf gymnastics community, the Jahn memorial was inaugurated in 1910, created by the Düsseldorf sculptor Franz Linden . A rounded structure made of shell limestone rises behind the semicircular basin. In the structure there is a relief depicting two gymnasts holding a medallion. The medallion depicts gymnastics father Friedrich Ludwig Jahn . Below the relief, the water flowed from five masks into the basin. Today the fountain is no longer in operation and the fountain basin is planted with flowers.
Drinking fountain on the grounds of the Eichenstrasse community elementary school
drinking fountain
... on the site of today's Eichenstrasse 3-5 primary school on the Rott in Barmen
  • Geographical location: 51 ° 16 ′ 9 ″ N, 7 ° 10 ′ 53 ″ E
  • Established: 1914
  • Status: no longer in operation
  • Description: In 1914 the schoolyard of the former Protestant elementary school Eichenstrasse was expanded to the west. The square was decorated with a drinking fountain made of shell limestone. The octagonal fountain basin has a diameter of 2.5 meters and has medallions with animal motifs on its outside. In the middle of the basin, a square obelisk towers three meters above the basin. At the inner edge of the pool there were hot springs as a drinking place, they are no longer in operation today, the pool is planted with flowers.
Wall fountain on Kölner Strasse
Wall fountain
... in the small green area next to the railway overpass on Kölner Strasse in Elberfeld
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 15 ′ 8 ″ N, 7 ° 8 ′ 36 ″ E
  • Established: 1914
  • Status: restored and preserved
  • Description: At the road bridge over the Elberfeld – Dortmund railway line , near the Wuppertal town hall , there is a small green area. The wall fountain with a semi-oval basin is around four meters wide and two meters high. It was created around 1914 with a bus shelter for the tram that ran on Kölner Strasse at the time. The side panels, designed by the sculptor Erich Cleff , are decorated with reliefs made of flower motifs. The fountain was not in operation for a long time and the wall was mostly overgrown with blackberry tendrils, the border damaged before the citizens' association of Wuppertaler Südstadt eV took it on and repaired it with the help of grants and donations, so that it has been since autumn 2018 can do its real job again.

Weimar Republic (1919–1932)

Well at the Black Man
Fountain
… At the Black Man in Elberfeld
  • Geographical position: 51 ° 15 ′ 1 ″ N, 7 ° 9 ′ 14 ″ E
  • Established: 1919
  • Status: no longer in operation
  • Description: The artificial stone fountain by is said to have been erected in May 1919 on what was then the street Am Schwarzen Mann. The well is no longer in operation. The fountain bowl is planted with flowers. The fountain column has not been preserved.
The Bökelbrunnen
Bökelbrunnen
... on Bahnhofstrasse in Elberfeld, near the footpath that leads down to the former "Bökel", now Johannisberg
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 15 ′ 12 ″ N, 7 ° 8 ′ 40 ″ E
  • Established: 1920
  • Status: received
  • Description: The Bökelbrunnen was erected in May 1920, the location chosen on Bökel was a small square at the end of the stairs to Bahnhofstrasse. The Bökel was a street in a historic residential area that was completely destroyed with the fountain in the air raid in 1943. The fountain was donated by the Elberfeld Beautification Association on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The design and execution are by Erich Cleff . Various delays and ultimately Cleff's illness meant that the shell limestone fountain basin initially had to be set up without the bronze figure. It took almost another two years before the fountain with the boy figure was completed. Shortly after the figure was erected, it was damaged overnight, so it was removed and repaired for a month.

After the Second World War, the W. Girardet publishing house donated a new Bökelbrunnen, which was inaugurated on June 9, 1961 at the new location on Bahnhofstrasse. The sculptor of the second fountain was also Erich Cleff, but this time the fountain basin is made of granite. Due to the construction of the new Stadtsparkassen administration building in 1996, the fountain was moved to Johannisberg Street , at the foot of the stairs to Bahnhofstrasse.

Elberfelder Brunnen, formerly on the station forecourt
Elberfeld fountain
Main article: Elberfeld fountain
... at the station forecourt in Elberfeld
fountain
... in the allotment garden “Hügel 1928 e. V. “, Heinrich-Böll-Straße / Am Kindergarten in Oberbarmen
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 16 ′ 49 ″ N, 7 ° 13 ′ 46 ″ E
  • Established: 1926
  • Status: changed during operation
  • Description: The fountain in the allotment garden "Hügel" was inaugurated on June 13, 1926 by the Rittershausen horticultural association. At that time it consisted of an octagonal fountain basin with a centrally positioned iron fountain column. From the column of the fountain the water gushed upwards and on all eight sides in jets. In 1982 it was rebuilt and instead of the fountain column it was given a clapboard roof. Equipped with a bucket with chain and winch, it gives the appearance of a draw well .
The fountain in front of the Toelleturm
Fountain with putti
... formerly in front of the Luftkurhaus at the Toelleturm in Barmen
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 15 ′ 24 ″ N, 7 ° 12 ′ 8 ″ E
  • Established: 1929
  • Status: only received without putting
  • Description: The fountain with putti, inaugurated on August 21, 1929, is located in front of the former climatic spa in the vicinity of the Toelleturm in Adolf-Vorwerk-Straße. It was a present from the Wilhelm Vorwerk family on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Vorwerk & Sohn company in 1927. Paul Wynand , who lives in Berlin, was an executive sculptor. He created the fountain with an octagonal basin from the center of which three fountain bowls rise in steps. The water cascades down from the top bowl. At the edge of the pool there were four bronze groups 80 to 100 centimeters high. They made Putten , which fall on dolphins ride. The bronze figures fell victim to a metal collection campaign during World War II and disappeared without a trace. After the war, Wynand tried in vain to find the bronze figures. He never got to re-create the figures, he died in March 1956. The listed fountain has since been restored several times.
Schützenbrunnen
on Paradestrasse
Schützenbrunnen
… Paradestraße / corner of Flensburger Straße, Elberfeld
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 15 ′ 45 ″ N, 7 ° 8 ′ 57 ″ E
  • Established: 1930
  • Status: no longer preserved, probably destroyed in World War II
  • Description: The Schützenbrunnen at the corner of Paradestrasse and Flensburger Strasse in Elberfeld was set up in April 1930 under the existing pavilion. The bronze figure of the fountain shows a medieval archer with a feather hat, skirt and rifle. The figure executed by Wilhelm Koopmann makes a reference to the nearby Platz der Republik, where shooting festivals were celebrated in earlier years. The figure has been missing since the Second World War and the fountain has no function.


Post-war period (1950–1962)

Fountain top with four cubs
Fountain top with four cubs
... formerly Siegesstraße grammar school, today on the grounds of the Städt. School for the mentally handicapped, Melanchthonstraße in Barmen (called "Schule am Nordpark" since 1991)
Drinking fountains, wall mosaics and plant basins
... in the elementary school on Rathenaustraße in Barmen, today the Wichlinghausen-Süd secondary school
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 16 ′ 45 ″ N, 7 ° 12 ′ 52 ″ E
  • Established: 1955
  • Status: no longer in operation
  • Description: The construction of the elementary school on Rathenaustraße, today's Hauptschule Wichlinghausen-Süd, was the first new school building after the Second World War in 1955 that was not a reconstruction. The artistic furnishing of the interior with a drinking fountain, wall mosaics and a plant basin was carried out by Ingoborg and Bruno Asshoff from Bochum. The drinking fountain was shut down after just a few years, preceded by abuse of the facilities by the students.
Hedgehog with snake
... fountain in the courtyard of today's Wichlinghausen-Süd secondary school, formerly an elementary school on Rathenaustraße in Barmen
  • Geographical location: 51 ° 16 ′ 44 ″ N, 7 ° 12 ′ 54 ″ E
  • Established: 1955
  • Status: no longer in operation
  • Description: A fountain for the schoolyard was also commissioned for the elementary school on Rathenaustraße, today's Wichlinghausen-Süd secondary school. The bronze figure in the form of a 30 cm high hedgehog is mounted on a bulbous one meter high sandstone column and was created by Fritz Bernuth . In the hedgehog's mouth there is a snake, from whose mouth water came. The water was collected in a 2.5 meter deep depression in the ground. The hollow shows a colored mosaic with fish motifs and was created by the garden architect Helmut Pfeil . The bronze cast was made three times; another is owned by the city of Cologne and the third was designed for a private garden. The fountain has not been in operation for years.
drinking fountain
... in the primary school Cronenfelder Straße, corner of Schulweg in Cronenfeld
  • Geographical location: 51 ° 12 ′ 51 ″ N, 7 ° 9 ′ 2 ″ E
  • Established: 1956
  • Status: no longer in operation
  • Description: In June 1956 the new gymnasium, which was attached to the existing school building, was inaugurated. Both parts of the building are connected by a staircase in which the drinking fountain is located on the lowest level. The ceramic fountain was created by Ingoborg and Bruno Asshoff . After just a few days, the water in the fountain was turned off again because the students only misused it for water splash games.
Drinking fountain and ceramic wall design
... Realschule Blücherstraße in Vohwinkel
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ N, 7 ° 4 ′ 48 ″ E
  • Established: 1956
  • Status: no longer received
  • Description: Ingoborg and Bruno Asshoff also created a ceramic wall design with animal motifs and a drinking fountain for this school, which was inaugurated on July 20, 1956. The fountain was moved shortly after it was installed in the schoolyard and was dismantled before 1966 because it could not withstand abuse by the students.
Fountain on the grounds of the primary school Küllenhahn (rear view)
Fountain
... on the grounds of the primary school Küllenhahn, Küllenhahner Straße
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 13 ′ 42 ″ N, 7 ° 8 ′ 22 ″ E
  • Established: 1957
  • Status: received
  • Description: After the completion of the first construction phase of a reconstruction of the elementary school Küllenhahn, which was destroyed in World War II, the fountain was inaugurated in June 1957. The fountain was created by the Wuppertal sculptor Hellmuth Grüttefien in collaboration with the garden architect Helmut Pfeil . The fountain is divided into two parts, a basin made of artificial stone in the tint of red Main sandstone and a free-standing fountain column next to the basin. Clinker steps are embedded around the system on the lawn. Different colored ceramic plates decorate the fountain column.
Fountain at the
Am Bredtchen cemetery
Fountain
... at the Evangelical Lutheran cemetery Am Bredtchen in Elberfeld
  • Geographical location: 51 ° 16 ′ 31 ″ N, 7 ° 8 ′ 1 ″ E
  • Established: 1958
  • Status: no longer in operation
  • Description: A fountain was set up in 1958 on the grounds of the Evangelical Lutheran cemetery at Am Bredtchen. At the edge of a basin there is a slender column with a relief image of the “good shepherd” on the front, who lets his sheep graze. Both elements, which were made by the sculptor Joachim Wolf-Müller , are made of shell limestone. The work was supported by the Wuppertal stonemasons G. and R. Anders. At the foot of the fountain column there is a banner that quotes the 23rd Psalm : "... and lead me to fresh water ..."
Fountain with fantasy animals, ceramics
... in the courtyard of the former elementary school Bökenbusch / Bornscheuerstraße, today elementary school
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 16 ′ 58 ″ N, 7 ° 14 ′ 21 ″ E
  • Established: 1959
  • Status: no longer received
  • Description: In 1958/59 the new building of what was then the primary school in Bökenbusch / Bornscheuerstraße was completed. The sculptor Fritz Bernuth had received an order from the city of Wuppertal so that he created a ceramic fountain with fantasy animals. A short time after it was erected, it was smashed and the remains removed.
Wall fountain, ceramics
... Distelbeck primary school in Elberfeld
  • Geographical location: 51 ° 15 ′ 9 ″ N, 7 ° 9 ′ 8 ″ E
  • Established: 1960
  • Status: no longer in operation
  • Description: The work was also made by the sculptor Fritz Bernuth on behalf of the city of Wuppertal in what was then a primary school, now the Distelbeck primary school. The ceramic work made of milk-white zinc oxide glaze with translucent blue includes a wall fountain executed with the help of Hellmuth Grüttefien and is located on the outer wall of the school building next to the entrance on the schoolyard side. The well has been out of service and filled with cement since at least the mid-1980s.
Well bear
... on a drinking fountain in the ev. Elementary school, today elementary school, Echoer Straße in Ronsdorf
  • Geographical location: 51 ° 13 ′ 9 ″ N, 7 ° 11 ′ 45 ″ E
  • Established: 1960
  • Status: received
  • Description: Another work by the sculptor Fritz Bernuth is this fountain in the former Protestant elementary school, now a primary school, on Echoer Straße in Ronsdorf. A pink-colored bear made of cast stone is located on a column. Below is a curved basin 55 centimeters high made of black granite with two water glands.

Second half of the 20th century (1963–1989)

drinking fountain
... in the entrance area of ​​the school at Reichsgrafenstraße 34/38 in Elberfeld
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 14 ′ 52 ″ N, 7 ° 8 ′ 42 ″ E
  • Established: 1963
  • Status: no longer in operation
  • Description: This drinking fountain was also installed in 1963 in the entrance area of ​​what was then the Reichsgrafenstraße primary school. It is a work by the sculptor Anne Henecka , a 1.40 meter diameter fountain bowl made of fine concrete, which is covered with Venetian glass mosaic. In the middle of the bowl there are three bronze seahorses that let the drinking water bubble into the pool in fine jets. The fountain has not been in operation for years.
Parabula
... fountain and square design on the Bayer Research site, Aprather Weg, Elberfeld
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 16 ′ 23 ″ N, 7 ° 6 ′ 18 ″ E
  • Established: 1965
  • Status: received
  • Description: The sculptor Anne Henecka from Düsseldorf designed a fountain in 1964/65 on the Bayer Research Center, which she named Parabula. The well trough is shaped by irregularly shaped elongated depressions and is spanned by several wave-shaped fine concrete elements, the middle parts of which carry the rotating bronze sculpture. The bronze sculpture shows several wings with different arches. The bottom of the fountain was covered with Venetian glass mosaic in the colors blue, green, red, orange, yellow and brown. Originally, light Portuguese limestone was laid across the square in wavy lines, but the factory management had it exchanged for darker stones in order to achieve a better demarcation between the fountain and the traffic area. The fountain is not open to the public as it is located on the factory premises.
The sculpture Delfoss after the reconstruction of the square
Delfoss
... Monolith, free sculpture in the water basin of the school center at Haspel in Unterbarmen
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 15 ′ 32 ″ N, 7 ° 9 ′ 57 ″ E
  • Established: 1966
  • Status: partially preserved
  • Description: The marble sculpture created by Karl Hartung from Berlin in 1963 was first shown in the summer of 1964 at Documenta III in Kassel. Only then did it come to Wuppertal, where it was unveiled on June 3, 1966 at the school center at Haspel. The marble block measures three meters in height and around 1.5 meters in diameter and weighs around eight tons. It was developed based on a Hartung model by the Zeidler & Wimmer company from Kirchheim. The monolith rests on a 1.2 × 1.2 m base and just touched the surface of the water basin. The basin consisted of two overlapping rectangles and together had an area of ​​around 330 square meters. The name Delfoss for the monolith is a word created by the artist.

The square was redesigned at the end of 2006 as part of the “Guideline Wupper” project. The large water basins disappeared, only the marble sculpture is still preserved.

Ceramic fountain
... in the playground of the elementary school Einern
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 17 ′ 53 ″ N, 7 ° 12 ′ 17 ″ E
  • Established: 1966
  • Status: no longer in operation
  • Description: During the construction of what was then Einern elementary school in 1965 , today a primary school, a ceramic fountain was also built in the schoolyard and inaugurated on September 9, 1966. The ceramist Ellen Penther created a three-part, brown-colored tubular group of vessels in a shallow water basin. At that time, the water ran from the largest tube into the next smaller and from there into the smallest tube to then run into the pool. The fountain was only in operation for a short time, then it stayed dry. The former water basin has been planted since 1981.
Water games in the grounds of the school center on Kothen
Water features
... in the area of ​​the school center on Kothen, industrial schools III, in Unterbarmen
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 15 ′ 34 ″ N, 7 ° 10 ′ 56 ″ E
  • Established: 1966
  • Status: no longer in operation
  • Description: In the summer of 1966, Guido Jendritzko created the water features on the grounds of the school center on Kothen in a 7 × 7 m pool . He had aligned six two-part artificial stone elements in a row, each with irregularly sloping surfaces. These are each roofed with aluminum plates on which the water jets hit in an arch. The noise produced by the fountain was too loud and was found to be annoying, so that it is no longer in operation.
Water features Alte Freiheit
Döppersberg fountain
... water features at the Alte Freiheit in Elberfeld
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 15 ′ 23 ″ N, 7 ° 8 ′ 55 ″ E
  • Established: 1968
  • Status: not preserved since 1988
  • Description: According to the plans of the then Wuppertal building department head Friedrich Hetzelt , the old freedom on Döppersberg was built and the Döppersberg fountain was inaugurated on April 13, 1968. The water features consisted of a two-tier pool with an overflow towards the Hofaue and an eight by eight meter pool with eight water fountains. The two pools were interrupted by a four-meter-wide passage. In the large pool, the water was bubbled up in two stages with 20 jet nozzles each. The outside cladding of the basin was made of Ticino granite , and polished granite was used for the inside walls. Underwater spotlights illuminated the water fountains from below. In 1985 it was decided that the well should be demolished, which was also implemented in 1988; the reason was the constant contamination of the fountain with bottles and beverage cans.
Water features
... in Oberbarmen (originally also in Barmen)
  • Geographical location:
  • Established: 1970
  • Status: no longer received
  • Description: Other water features similar to the Döppersberg fountain were planned in Oberbarmen and Barmen, of which only the one in Oberbarmen on Berliner Platz was completed in 1969. Six fountains arranged in two rows bubbled in the square 5 m pool.
Fox fountain
Fox fountain
... in front of the Voss laundry, Gasstrasse in Ronsdorf
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 14 ′ 47 ″ N, 7 ° 8 ′ 19 ″ E
  • Established: 1970
  • Status: received
  • Description: In 1970, the ceramist Hellmuth Grüttefien designed the fox fountain for the Voss laundry . In a bed of gravel, a flat concrete bowl two meters in diameter rises on a slender foot. A fountain column with the motif of a fox rises from the center, based on the company's logo. The fountain column has a zinc-cobalt oxide glaze, a so-called feldspar glaze, to which two copper gargoyles are attached.
Deutsche Bank fountain
Deutsche Bank fountain
... on Friedrich-Engels-Allee at the corner of Ibachstraße in Barmen
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 16 ′ 7 ″ N, 7 ° 11 ′ 43 ″ E
  • Established: 1971
  • Status: not in operation
  • Description: On August 5, 1971, the work of the Düsseldorf sculptor Karl-Heinz Klein was erected in Barmen in front of the entrance to the Deutsche Bank on Ibachstrasse . He was the winner of a competition announced by the bank. The fountain is a 3.5 m high and 1250 kg heavy sculpture made of nickel silver . According to one description, the fountain is reminiscent of a tropical plant, from which the water runs from the upper leaf into the lower leaves to the pebble-filled pool.
Water games
on Von-der-Heydt-Platz
Water features
... on Von-der-Heydt-Platz in Elberfeld
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 15 ′ 26 ″ N, 7 ° 8 ′ 42 ″ E
  • Established: 1971
  • Status: received
  • Description: In September 1971 the Elberfelder Von-der-Heydt-Platz and the Herzogstraße were redesigned. In the center of the square, which is now a pedestrian zone, this fountain was built in a 15 × 12 m trough-like resting zone. The fountain consists of two basins offset one above the other. In the middle of the upper 6 × 6 m large, very shallow basin there are nozzles that let the water bubble up like a fountain. In winter or when the fountain is not in use and dry, the area can be used as a stage. This is used at Christmas parties or city festivals.
Fountain columns in Deweerth's garden
Well columns
... in Deweerth'schen Garten, Elberfeld
Werther fountain
Werther fountain
... at the upper Werth, near Werther Bridge in Barmen
Main article: Werther fountain
  • Geographical location: 51 ° 16 ′ 21 ″ N, 7 ° 12 ′ 22 ″ E
  • Established: 1978
  • Status: received
  • Description: At the end of the Werth pedestrian zone , near the Werther Bridge is the Werther Fountain. It was inaugurated by Lord Mayor Gurland on September 30, 1978 with a large participation of the population. The city commission had selected this design of the fountain from eleven proposals from well-known artists. The executed fountain by the Düsseldorf sculptor Friederich Werthmann stands above an underground tank with a capacity of five cubic meters. The fountain consists of a ball made of stainless steel with a diameter of almost three meters, which is divided in the middle and stands on low supports. In the area of ​​the two hemispheres, 26 nozzles are attached so that the hemispheres, which are 62 centimeters apart, spray each other. The whole construction stands in a paved hollow. The sphere of the Werther Fountain also serves as a model of the sun on a scale of 1: 552 million for the Astro Path planetary path that begins here .
The new fountain from 1980
New well at the well house
... in the small park “Am Born” on Borner Strasse in Cronenberg
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 12 ′ 25 ″ N, 7 ° 7 ′ 46 ″ E
  • Established: 1980
  • Status: received
  • Description: When the green area at the fountain house was expanded in 1980, an old grindstone, from which water now gushes up in the middle, was built next to the fountain house and inaugurated on August 15, 1980.
“The valley of the Wupper” on Johannes-Rau-Platz
The valley of the Wupper
... fountain on the town hall forecourt in Barmen
  • Geographical location: 51 ° 16 ′ 17 ″ N, 7 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E
  • Established: 1981
  • Status: received
  • Description: On the town hall forecourt in Barmen, which is now called Johannes-Rau-Platz , the fountain with the name Das Tal der Wupper was inaugurated on July 21, 1981. It was a present from Vorwerk & Co. on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Wuppertal (in 1979). The Düsseldorf sculptor Bert Gerresheim won the competition, which was carried out by Vorwerk in cooperation with the city. The fountain shows various stations from the history of the city. The water runs in the well, which is spread out like a landscape. The picture, composed of 26 reliefs, contains over 700 individual representations of people and events.
Fountain at Langerfelder Markt
Fountain
... at Langerfelder Markt, west of the old church
  • Geographical location: 51 ° 16 ′ 28 ″ N, 7 ° 14 ′ 39 ″ E
  • Established: 1981
  • Status: received
  • Description: The Wuppertal artist Ulle Hees received an order from the Art Commission in 1979 to create a fountain for the eastern area of ​​the Langerfelder Markt after its redesign. The bronze fountain contains an incident from Langerfeld around 1730, which concerns the rights of use of a spring.
Former fountain in the Uellendahl shopping center
fountain
... in the Uellendahl, Röttgen, Elberfeld shopping center
  • Geographical location: 51 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ N, 7 ° 9 ′ 23 ″ E
  • Established: 1982
  • Status: no longer in operation
  • Description: In the residential complex Röttgen, in the district of Uellendahl, a fountain was completed in the central shopping center in early February 1982. An old millstone is installed in a square basin with an edge length of 2.3 m, from which the water gushed out of the borehole. However, the well was only in operation for a short time and the basin was planted.
Fountain of the urban retirement home "Am Ehrenmal"
Fountain
... on the site of the municipal old people's home "Am Ehrenmal" in Cronenberg, Hütter Straße
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 12 ′ 28 ″ N, 7 ° 7 ′ 53 ″ E
  • Established: 1982
  • Status: received
  • Description: On June 15, 1982 the municipal old people's home "Am Ehrenmal" was inaugurated. The outside area also includes a well, which consists of an irregularly shaped boulder . In this there is a central borehole from which the water gushes. The stone lies in a shallow hollow paved with red clinker bricks.
Play fountain by Ulle Hees
Play fountain
... on the terrace above the underground car park on Kasinostraße in Elberfeld
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 15 ′ 29 ″ N, 7 ° 8 ′ 26 ″ E
  • Established: 1983
  • Status: received
  • Description: The fountain is part of a playground that was built on an underground car park and was opened to the public by Mayor Gurland on May 7, 1983. The playground is located on a terraced landscape over several levels. The water runs out of a pipe on one of the front walls and winds past some boulders. In front of the pipe opening is the bronze sculpture, which was created by the sculptor Ulle Hees , in the form of a 110 cm high child who looks curiously into the pipe. The fountain was donated by the managing director of Max Austermann GmbH & Co.
Fountain in honor of Hermann Herberts and Hans Rauhaus
Fountain in honor of Hermann Herberts and Hans Rauhaus
... in the garden courtyard of the senior citizens' residential complex Hütter Straße 28-30 in Cronenberg
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 12 ′ 29 ″ N, 7 ° 7 ′ 49 ″ E
  • Established: 1983
  • Status: received
  • Description: The fountain system was officially handed over on June 15, 1983 in the garden courtyard of the senior citizens' residence. The non-profit housing company Wuppertal (GWG) honors Hermann Herberts and Hans Rauhaus , who were members of the company's supervisory board for many years. The fountain was created by the Wuppertal artist Wilfried Reckewitz and is a 2.6 m wide copper swing arm. This stands on a black marble base, which stands in a three-meter round basin, which is also made of black polished marble. The water runs from nozzles below the rocker into the pool.
Fountain
... in the living area behind the new Stadtsparkasse Wichlinghausen, Alte Straße
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 16 ′ 58 ″ N, 7 ° 12 ′ 58 ″ E
  • Established: 1984
  • Status: not known
  • Description: On May 7, 1984, the new building of the Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal on Wichlinghauser Markt was opened. In the area of ​​Alte Straße there is an inner courtyard, where this fountain is also located. The fountain consists of a three-tier shell construction, which was made from polished basalt lava . It was designed by the in-house architect of the Sparkasse Karl-Friedrich Alles and executed by Otto Ernst Schultz KG.
Fountain on the Beyenburger Klosterplatz
Fountain
... on the Beyenburger Klosterplatz
  • Geographical position: 51 ° 15 ′ 1 ″ N, 7 ° 18 ′ 3 ″ E
  • Established: 1984
  • Status: received
  • Description: At the end of the renovation work on the Steinhaus Monastery in 1984, this fountain was inaugurated on the Beyenburger Klosterplatz on November 3, 1984. The hexagonal stone column stands in a paved hollow and is crowned with a replica of a pine cone. Below the top of the almost four-meter-high three bronze gargoyles depicting the heads of ibexes. They are replicas of zinc heads that were found during restoration and renovation work. The gargoyles spew the water onto three lamps that are embedded in the ground and illuminate the fountain in the evening.
Berlin pump
Berlin pump
... on Berliner Platz in Oberbarmen
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 16 ′ 30 ″ N, 7 ° 13 ′ 17 ″ E
  • Established: 1987
  • Status: received
  • Description: A Berlin pump was inaugurated on June 21, 1987 by the Mayor of Wuppertal Kurt Drees and the Berlin District Mayor of Schöneberg, Rüdiger Jakesch . The 2.40 m high pump on Berliner Platz in Oberbarmen was donated by the Sparkassen Wuppertals and Berlin and is a replica of a Lauchhammer pump that was installed in many places in Berlin from 1894. The pump brought edible water to the surface from a depth of 30 meters, but is no longer functional today.
Fountain "scoop and protect"
Scooping and protecting
... fountain at Wichlinghauser Markt
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 16 ′ 59 ″ N, 7 ° 12 ′ 53 ″ E
  • Established: 1987
  • Status: received
  • Description: After the redesign of the Wichlinghauser Markt, it was inaugurated on September 4th, 1987. The focal point is this fountain made of white Greek marble by the Wuppertal sculptor Hans-Jürgen Hiby . It bears the name Schöpfer und Schützen and depicts two hands that shape the fountain bowl with the palms of the hands. The water gushes out of the middle and pours over the edges of the four and a half ton heavy work. It was donated by furniture merchant Bernd Hellwig with the participation of the city and the state.
Ball fountain in front of the Langerfeld office building
Ball fountain
... in front of the office building Langerfeld, Schwelmer Straße 13/15
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 16 ′ 30 ″ N, 7 ° 14 ′ 42 ″ E
  • Established: 1989
  • Status: received
  • Description: The ball fountain in front of the Langerfeld administration building on Schwelmer Strasse was put into operation in May 1989. It consists of two hand-bushed lava clay hemispheres. The lower one is one meter in diameter, the upper one is a few centimeters less. The water bubbles along the surface of the two halves of the ball from a central borehole. The floor below the well, which comes from series production at the Metten concrete block plant, is paved and takes the water in a channel. Low seat walls encircle the fountain area.
The Wicküler fountain
Wicküler fountain
... on the brewery site on the corner of Bendahler and Elberder Strasse in Unterbarmen
  • Geographic location: 51 ° 15 ′ 24 ″ N, 7 ° 9 ′ 49 ″ E
  • Established: 1989
  • Status: received
  • Description: The Wicküler fountain was inaugurated on May 21, 1989 by Alfons Bruglemans, the manager of the Wicküler brewery . It consists of a copper brewing and mash kettle , which is crowned with the insignia of the art of brewing , vat, kiln and ladle. The water runs down from various taps on the brew pan. After the brewery was closed and transformed into Wicküler City , the fountain was moved to the forecourt of an electronics store across the street.
The former New Döppersberger Brunnen at the new location
New Döppersberg fountain - step pyramid
... at the Alte Freiheit in Elberfeld
  • Geographical location: Original location: 51 ° 15 ′ 23 ″ N, 7 ° 8 ′ 55 ″ E , current location: 51 ° 15 ′ 33 ″ N, 7 ° 8 ′ 45 ″ E
  • Established: 1989
  • Status: received at another location
  • Description: After the old Döppersberg fountain was demolished in the summer of 1988 , this fountain system was built on the Alte Freiheit. The fountain goes back to an idea by the architects Hans Christoph Goedeking and Jürgen Schmidt and was designed as a step pyramid made of black granite. The top of the pyramid is formed by a 100 centimeter red-brown granite ball. This from the Josef Kusser granite works in Aicha vorm Wald dances through an excess water pressure of 0.68 bar in a well that is also precisely ground. The fact that the water runs down on all sides of the pyramid and does not leave the steps dry prevented the non-residents from settling here permanently. This was also the reason for the demolition of the old well. But this fountain was also removed from this location in 2000 with the construction of the City-Arkaden and changed to Willy-Brandt-Platz .

See also

literature

  • Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal . Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-87093-057-8 .
  • Siegfried Becker, K.-J. Burandt: The monuments in Wuppertal . Carpenter pressure

Web links

Commons : Brunnen in Wuppertal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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