Girls' Fountain (Calau)

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Girls fountain in Calau

The girl's fountain is the work of the Dresden sculptor Ernst Sauer (1923–1988). It is located in downtown Calau in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in southern Brandenburg .

history

In the 1980s, the city redesigned parts of the city center. Cottbuser Strasse was to be upgraded to a central shopping arcade. In 1984 the planning and competition for the design of the girls' fountain began, with which the Carl Blechen Prize winner Ernst Sauer was finally commissioned. He created three bronze figures, which he named Die Schöne , Die Keusche and Die Kesse . They were created in a picture foundry in neighboring Lauchhammer . The fountain cost about 30,000 marks .

In 2002 two figures were stolen. One was found a short time later in a forest, the second appeared in 2008 during the renovation of the Calau jumping pond. In 2009, Die Schöne was stolen again, which only reappeared in August 2012 despite a finder's reward . A Bischdorfer citizen fished them out of the Bischdorfer pond. The three figures were marked with artificial DNA in the course of a DNA property marking and anchored on the steles. The fountain is part of the Calauer Witzerundweg .

Web links

  • Mädchenbrunnen , website of the city of Calau, accessed on July 13, 2014.

literature

  • City of Calau (Hrsg.): Living together in Calau ... a very healthy city with wit, information for residents . P. 34, brochure, without date.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ho: Another figure stolen from the Mädchenbrunnen in Calau . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , July 27, 2009, accessed on July 13, 2014.
  2. ↑ Calau has his little girl back , Calauer Stadtnachrichten No. 97, September 2012, (PDF), website of the administration portal, accessed on July 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ red: Very healthy small town with even more jokes , website of the portal Blickpunkt Brandenburg from April 7, 2014, accessed on July 13, 2014.

Coordinates: 51 ° 44 '49.1 "  N , 13 ° 57' 0.9"  E