Luisenplatz fountain
| Luisenplatz fountain | |
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 Luisenplatz fountain (2012) |
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| Data | |
| place | Darmstadt |
| architect | Joseph Maria Olbrich |
| Builder | City of Darmstadt |
| Architectural style | Art Nouveau |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 52 '22 " N , 8 ° 39' 4" E |
The Luisenplatz fountain are two fountains in Darmstadt .
History and description
In 1907 the “Committee for the Horticultural Enhancement of Luisenplatz” commissioned the architect and designer Joseph Maria Olbrich to plan a redesign of Luisenplatz . The realization did not quite correspond to Olbrich's plans. The two Art Nouveau fountains were completed by the opening of the "Hessian State Exhibition" in 1908.
The round, goblet-like bowl rests on four balls on a short fluted column . This construction stands in the middle of a round basin made of red sandstone . The water rises from a short fountain and runs like a veil over the rounded, ornamented rim of the bronze bowl . At the transition from the shallower to the deeper shell part there are small, golden ornaments. There are four bulges on the curve of the flat sandstone basin, where the pool edge is perforated. These bulges are decorated with stylized animal heads.
literature
- Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 139.