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Elwetritsch Fountain

(Wikipedia)

Gernot Rumpf
1978

Neustadt an der Weinstraße / Elwedritschebrunnen

Description

Fountain with many elwetrische - birdlike mythical creatures. One of them is escaped and found on the fountain on the Market place.

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Annotation

The Elwetritsch (aka Elwedritsch, Ilwedritsch and so on), plural Elwetritsche or Elwetritschen, in (pseudoscientific) Latin bestia palatinensis) is a birdlike mythical creature which is reported to be found in South-West-Germany, especially in Palatinate.

Sculptor

Gernot Rumpf (Kaiserslautern 1941), German sculptor in Neustadt an der Weinstraße , married 1981 with Barbara Rumpf (Wikipedia).

Locatie (N 49°21'9" - E 8°8'19") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: derp118; Photograph: 20 April 2012
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