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Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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2. Elisenbrunnen Aachen – Puppet Fountain loop from Aachen Hauptbahnhof

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3. Katschhof Square, Aachen – Aachen Cathedral loop from Kaiserplatz

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Bernd 🌲🦌🍄🥾

October 30, 2022

The Aachen Doll Fountain is located on Krämerstraße near the cathedral and is one of the city's most famous fountain figures. Characteristic of the Doll Fountain are its movable figures, designed like articulated puppets. Visitors can rotate the figures' arms, legs, or heads and thus play with the fountain. They depict typical roles and characters that characterize Aachen: for example, professors, craftsmen, cardinals, a horse, or a jester. Thus, the fountain humorously reflects the diversity of urban life.

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Silke mit Yuna & Yomi

October 12, 2017

The Puppenbrunnen is located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, on Krämerstraße, the connection between the cathedral and the town hall. It was founded by the Aachener Bank and created in 1975 by the Aachen sculptor Boniface Stirnberg.

As early as 1967, Stirnberg designed a group of sculptures with movable elements. His design was not accepted at that time and only in 1975 realized as a doll fountain in Aachen. This fountain with numerous figures made of bronze, some of which have movable limbs, enjoys great popularity to this day and represented the breakthrough for the artist. From then on he received many commissions from home and abroad. His fountains and sculptures are almost always related to the history or stories of each city and are always considered to be hands-on art.

In Lemgo is also such a fountain.

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JakobusPilger

May 11, 2022

At this point / I would like to quickly / say something about the source

(whereby it corresponds to the art of poetry / if this 'source' is a 'well'):

To quote the incomparable humorist Heinz Erhardt (1909 - 1979), who was known to a wide audience for his word jokes and "Noch'n poem", with a short quatrain:

"There is certainly much beauty in

on the element, the wet.

Because you can drink the water.

But you can - also leave it."

(H.Erhardt)

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Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Puppet Fountain

1. Aachen Cathedral – Katschhof Square, Aachen loop from Kaiserplatz

2. Elisenbrunnen Aachen – Puppet Fountain loop from Aachen Hauptbahnhof

3. Katschhof Square, Aachen – Aachen Cathedral loop from Kaiserplatz

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