Mallard Fountain

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Mallard Fountain in Weimar

The mallard fountain is located in a school yard in the independent city of Weimar in Thuringia .

The fountain in the schoolyard, in the middle in front of the southern front of the schoolyard, the former "Luisenschule" / "Käthe-Kollwitz-Schule" Röhrstrasse 19, today's state vocational school (SBBS) "Friedrich Justin Bertuch" (optional school types of vocational high school and technical college) in Weimar is a travertine fountain connected to a tube drive , the octagonal pedestal of which is crowned by a mallard duck looking down at her two duck chicks , who in turn look up to her in the nest. Symbolically, it evidently means the mother's care for her little ones. Under the nest on the pedestal there is also an octagonal steel band ring with four watercourses and hooks that were intended for hanging drinking cups. The geologist Walter Steiner describes this fountain as follows: “A travertine fountain that is well worth seeing can be found in the courtyard of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Schule. The fountain column, the mallard sculpture and the octagonal fountain bowl made of two parts consists of freshwater lime with few caverns and a striking white patina. ” The fountain created after 1910 is the work of the Weimar sculptor Arno Zauche , a student of Adolf von Donndorf . The fountain sculpture was temporarily located in the Kromsdorf Palace Park . A restoration and partial reconstruction was carried out by the stone restorer Diana Berger in 2001.

The mallard fountain is not the only fountain with an animal motif designed by Arno Zauche. He also created the frog fountain in Weimar.

The mallard fountain is included in the list of cultural monuments in Weimar (individual monuments) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description of the situation according to Hans-Joachim Leithner: WeimarWissen: from well rooms, tube rides and water pipes, the historical and more recent wells in Weimar , Weimar 2018, p. 243.
  2. ↑ House 2 (Röhrstraße 19). In: www.sbbs-bertuch.de. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Gerd Seidel, Walter Steiner : Building stone and building in Weimar (= Standing Commissions Culture of the Weimar City Council and the Weimar-Land District Council in cooperation with the Weimar City Museum (ed.): Tradition und Gegenwart. Weimarer Schriften. Issue 32). Weimar 1988, ISBN 3-910053-08-4 , p. 45 and p. 56.
  4. ↑ Leithner p. 244.
  5. ↑ Seidel / Steiner p. 56.
  6. ↑ Leithner p. 244 f.
  7. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Weimar as of November 20, 2013.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 15.2 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 9.9 ″  E