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Hildegardplatz

Markt- oder Hildegardbrunnen

Market or Hildegard Fountain

Christiane Sandler
2013

Kempten (Allgäu) / Markt- oder Hildegardbrunnen

Description

The fountain consists of a circular pool with in the middle of a two-part column on which a boy and a girl in bathing suits are standing next to an apple tree. The column is surrounded by a ring of birds from which spout six water jets.

At the edge of the basin sit six gargoyles, animals that are found on the waterfront:

Kempten (Allgäu) - Markt- oder Hildegardbrunnen
Frosch / frog
Salamander
Forelle / trout

Krebs / lobster
Ringelnatter / grass snake
Karpfen / carp

Sculptor

Christiane Sandler (Babenhausen/Schwaben 1962), German sculptor (Website).

Sources & Information

Stadt Kempten, Hildegardplatz Marktbrunnen.
Helmuth Hüttl, Brunnen: in Kempten und im Allgäu (Google Books).
Stadt Kempten (Allgäu), Marktbrunnen.

Location (N 47°43'41" - E 10°18'38")

Item Code: deby319; Photograph: 7 October 2014
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Frosch / frog	Salamander	Forelle / trout
Krebs / lobster	Ringelnatter / grass snake	Karpfen / carp