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Herdecke
Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis
Nordrhein-Westfalen

Hauptstraße
(Stiftsplatz)

Viehmarktbrunnen

Cattle Market Fountain

Walter Hellenthal
1987

Description

Sculpture group of a man with two pigs and a man with a cow near a circular elevation with a fountain in the center. On this elevation sit two (sort of) griffins with sunglasses (luzzi-reloaded in Waymarking calls them doves with human heads) spouting water.
From 1355 until 1939 there was three times a year a cattle market on this square.

Herdecke - Viehmarktbrunnen

Information Sign

Den Bürgern
der Stadt Herdecke
Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG
27. Mai 1987

To the citizens
of the town of Herdecke
Dortmund Municipal Utilities
27 May 1987

Sculptor

Walter Hellenthal (Dortmund 1946), German sculptor and painter from Herdecke (Website).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Liste von Kunstwerken im öffentlichen Raum in Herdecke.
Waymarking, Viehmarktbrunnen Herdecke.
Stadt Herdecke, Herdecke entdecken und erleben (PDF online).

Locatie (N 51°24'1" - E 7°25'58") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: denw992; Photograph: 31 July 2022
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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