The Mercator Fountain was erected in honor of Gerhard Kremer, called Mercator (1512-1594) and unveiled in 1878. Mercator was the most important geographer and cosmographer of his time.

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"In 1869, it became known in Duisburg that the Belgian town of Rupelmonde, the birthplace of cartographer Gerhard Mercator, was planning to erect a seven-meter-high bronze monument for Mercator, although the cartographer was born there, his most famous maps, the map of Europe from 1554 and his map of the world 1569, however, were created in his workshop in the Duisburg Oberstraße, so a duel was launched in Duisburg a competition project to the Belgian monument from the baptism: Already three months after the start of construction in Belgium, the foundation stone of the Duisburg counterpart was laid.

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