Spindler Fountain

Spindler Fountain
	General view from the west
place	Berlin center
country	Germany
use	Jewellery
construction time	1891-1892
architect	Kyllmann & Heyden
Architectural style	Neo-renaissance
Technical specifications
height	6.50 m
diameter	Upper shell: 3.0 m, ; lower shell: 4.0 m, ; basin: 10.0 m
Floors	2
Building material	Swedish rose-colored granite , bowl support made from Cappucinski granite since 1997
Coordinates
location	Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 43 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 4" E 52 ° 30 ′ 43 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 4" E

The Spindlerbrunnen is a fountain on the Spittelmarkt in Berlin-Mitte . It was created at the end of the 19th century and has changed its location several times over the years.

Description of the plant

The fountain stick is a two-tier bowl fountain based on Renaissance models. The material is Swedish rose-colored granite. Including the base, it has a total height of 6.5 meters.

The water exits at the top, then flows from the upper bowl into the lower one and then further into the round fountain basin. The upper shell measures 3 meters in diameter, the lower 4 meters. They were made from one piece of granite each. The fountain basin has a diameter of 10 meters.

The total weight of the well is 50 tons. The lower shell weighs 12 tons, the upper 7 tons.

In its cycle 5,000 liters of water are moved, of which around 30 to 40 liters are lost per day through evaporation.

history

Carl Spindler , head of the W. Spindler company in Berlin-Spindlersfeld , donated the fountain to the city of Berlin in 1891 in memory of his father Wilhelm Spindler , the founder of the company named after him. The company had its origins near the Spittelmarkt in Wallstrasse 9-13 .

The architect duo Kyllmann & Heyden, consisting of Walter Kyllmann , Wilhelm Spindler's son-in-law, and Adolf Heyden , designed the fountain. The grinding work was carried out by the M. L. Schleicher marble grinding shop in Lehrter Strasse.

For the redesign of the Spittelmarkt and its surroundings, which was generously planned in the 1920s, the Berlin magistrate had the fountain dismantled in 1927 and repositioned in the Köpenick Volkspark opposite the Köpenick Hospital . When intensive construction was going on in Berlin city center after the rubble had been cleared up, experts restored the fountain. In 1981 it came back close to its original location on the Spittelmarkt after it had been redesigned in the 1970s.

At the end of 1991 the fountain had to be dismantled again due to cracked base elements and extensively reconstructed, so that it was not on the square again until March 1995. The restoration team, headed by the restorer in the stonemasonry and stone carving trade, Kai Dräger, and the granite stonemasons from Löbau-Granit, completely re-manufactured the shell supports. Since the original granite was no longer mined in Sweden, they had to switch to Swedish Bohus granite. The total cost of the restoration work amounted to 500,000 DM .

At the beginning of 2005 the fountain was dismantled again to make way for the construction of an office building on Spittelmarkt. It was stored in a depot of the Central Road and Green Area Office in Wedding and examined for damage. From late autumn 2007 the water flowed again at the new place of the fountain in the Friedrichswerder green area near the old location. For the design of the green area, the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development had announced a realization competition in which 35 landscape planners took part.

meaning

The Spindlerbrunnen is considered "unique in Europe in terms of quality and size".

Along with the Neptune Fountain in front of the Rotes Rathaus and the Fountain of Friendship between Nations on Alexanderplatz, it is one of the most important fountains in the Mitte district.

A stylized image of the Spindlerbrunnen forms the logo of the Spreeinsel district council founded in the 21st century .

Web links

Commons : Spindlerbrunnen - collection of images, videos and audio files

Public fountain in Berlin-Mitte: Spindlerbrunnen . berlin.de
Spindler Fountain . In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein

Individual evidence

↑ Hans-Jürgen Mende and Kurt Wernicke (eds.): Berlin Mitte, Das Lexikon, Berlin 2001, pp. 560f
↑ Hans-Jürgen Mende and Kurt Wernicke (eds.): Berlin Mitte, Das Lexikon, Berlin 2001, pp. 560f
↑ Claudia Fuchs: After pressing the button, the water came . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 10, 1995
↑ Birgitt Eltzel: The colossus moves into the depot . , Berliner Zeitung , January 21, 2005.
↑ Realization competition "Two parks on Friedrichswerder" . Senate Department for Urban Development.
↑ The renovated Spindlerbrunnen is back on the old site. , Berliner Morgenpost , July 30, 2007.
↑ A curtain of water . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 9, 1997.
↑ Spittelmarkt . Spreeinsel district representation (with two pictures of the 2005 dismantling and one historical picture)

[1] Hans-Jürgen Mende and Kurt Wernicke (eds.): Berlin Mitte, Das Lexikon, Berlin 2001, pp. 560f

[2] Hans-Jürgen Mende and Kurt Wernicke (eds.): Berlin Mitte, Das Lexikon, Berlin 2001, pp. 560f

[3] Claudia Fuchs: After pressing the button, the water came . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 10, 1995

[4] Birgitt Eltzel: The colossus moves into the depot . , Berliner Zeitung , January 21, 2005.

[5] Realization competition "Two parks on Friedrichswerder" . Senate Department for Urban Development.

[6] The renovated Spindlerbrunnen is back on the old site. , Berliner Morgenpost , July 30, 2007.

[7] A curtain of water . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 9, 1997.

[8] Spittelmarkt . Spreeinsel district representation (with two pictures of the 2005 dismantling and one historical picture)