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Geithain Market Fountain

Geithain Market Fountain

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Geithain Market Fountain

Name: Geithain Market Fountain
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Location: Geithain, Landkreis Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

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*Hendrik*👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

June 6, 2022

Geithain is a tranquil little town with lots of old buildings. This fountain with a historical depiction can be found on the spacious market square.

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Michi LE

December 10, 2021

The Geithainer Marktbrunnen, finally inaugurated during the club festival in June 2002, tells two stories. One, visible to all eyes, is that of a conflict between line weavers and butchers of the patch of land over water rights.
Finally inaugurated during the club festival in June 02, tells two stories. One, visible to all eyes, is that of a conflict between line weavers and butchers of the patch of land over water rights.

When the sculptor Beier, who lives in Leukersdorf near Chemnitz, was commissioned by the office for architecture-related art in the mid-eighties to create a fountain as the new focal point of the Geithain market ensemble, he immersed himself in the archives and encountered a dispute dating back centuries. It seemed to him ideally suited as a subject for his fountain. "I thought it was nice that they gave me a free hand and said: Make a suggestion", Beier looks back on the beginnings.

The designs for the fountain and models provided a topic of conversation in the city, an exchange of ideas was important to Beier. "People have to accept the fountain too, I'll make it for them," he says. But in the end it failed, also due to the turmoil that the "turning point" brought with it.

Source: geithain.net/index.php/freizeit-kultur-tourismus/tourismus/sehenswuerdheiten-denkmale/299-der-geithainer-marktbrunnen

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Sachsen Onkel

March 26, 2018

The fountain was erected in 2002, depicting the long strife of history in Geithain between butchers and linen weavers.

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Location: Geithain, Landkreis Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

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Geithain Market Fountain

1. Geithain Market Fountain – Rochlitz Castle loop from Neuwerder

2. Geithain Town Hall – Geithain Market Fountain loop from Geithain

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