World Cup fountain
| World Cup fountain | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| place | Munich , Bavaria |
| country |
 Germany
|
| construction time | 2006 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Building material | Tittlinger Granite , Impala |
| Coordinates | |
| location | Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '22.8 " N , 11 ° 41' 54.8" E 48 ° 8 '22.8 " N , 11 ° 41' 54.8" E |
The World Cup fountain in Munich was set up in front of the World Cup media center at the north entrance of the New Munich Trade Fair Center in front of the World Cup media center on the occasion of the 2006 World Cup in the + team spirit design of the 2006 World Cup . The stone ball made of granite-like norite weighs more than eleven tons. It slides on a thin film of water in the fountain bowl and can be moved with one hand despite its weight.
Details
The stone ball, which symbolizes a soccer ball, has a diameter of two meters and a weight of 11.3 tons and lies in a hollowed-out fountain basin made of Tittlingen granite , in which the ball slides on a film of water. The polished stone ball made of Impala , a natural stone from South Africa , moves when 200 liters of water per minute at a pressure of 1.2 bar are fed into the fountain bowl. The amount of water required is determined by the accuracy of fit of the calibrated ball and the size and adaptation of the spherical cap . The fit of the dome, the negative shape of football, does not place such high demands on the elaboration as the ball.
One or two nozzles were built into the well basin so that the heavy ball moves continuously in different directions and is wetted with water. When installing two nozzles, a circuit ensures that water emerges from only one nozzle alternately and hits the ball, thereby moving it. If only one nozzle is installed, the rotation is triggered by a non-continuous switching of an obliquely directed water jet. As soon as water flows, the stone ball moves in the WM fountain and by rotating it using the patented methods mentioned above, it is permanently completely wetted with water. It is not known whether there are one or two nozzles in the well basin.
The soccer ball stone bears the pattern of the original World Cup football, " + Teamgeist " and the World Cup logo " Celebrating Faces of Football " of FIFA from 2006, which in airbrush was painted on technique. The World Cup fountain was made by a stonemason from Aicha vorm Wald in Lower Bavaria in a working period of ten weeks. The weight of the ingot before machining was 33 tons. The soccer ball was rounded off in numerous operations with circular stone saws and then polished with a specially developed stone grinding machine that works to an accuracy of two hundredths of a millimeter. The trade fair company in Munich opted for the World Cup fountain made of hard stone because they were impressed by the contrast between the heavy ball and the low-friction gliding on a film of water. The fountain was inaugurated on May 12, 2006 by Franz Beckenbauer , Francis Tellier, the CEO of HBS, Minister of State Eberhard Sinner , Bavaria's State Secretary for Finance Franz Meyer and Exhibition Director Manfred Wutzlhofer.
See also
Web links
- World Cup fountain decorates the north entrance of the New Munich Trade Fair Center ( Memento from November 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Soccer World Cup: Holzhütte be vigilant on heise.de
- WM-Brunnen Video from Kusser Granitwerke GmbH on youtube.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: press release and picture of Franz Beckenbauer in front of the World Cup fountain on Niederbayern.de ), accessed on May 11, 2010
- ↑ Compare to this paragraph: Josef Kusser: Device for supporting and driving a floating ball . German Patent Office, patent specification 3802561C2, granted 1992. Accessed May 17, 2010.
- ↑ WM-Brunnen decorates the north entrance of the New Munich Trade Fair Center. (No longer available online.) Bauunternehmen.com, archived from the original on August 8, 2007 ; accessed on December 31, 2017 .