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Friedrich Nietzsche Fountain

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Friedrich Nietzsche Fountain

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Friedrich Nietzsche Fountain

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Location: Basel-Stadt, Nordwestschweiz, Switzerland

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Sandsteinklippe

July 11, 2022

The philosopher Friedrich Nitzsche (1844-1900) was a professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Basel. Since he lived on Spalentorweg, his commute to work led past this fountain. Therefore, it was dedicated to Friedrich Nietzsche by the citizens of Basel in 2015.

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Kristian

May 6, 2024

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, one of the most important European philosophers. For ten years, from 1869 to 1879, Nietzsche lived, taught and wrote in Basel. On the 115th anniversary of his death, August 25, 2015, the nameless fountain will be renamed and Nietzsche will also receive a monument in Basel.

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🦣 𝕸𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖚𝖙 𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖐 🏒🥅👨🏼‍🚒🚒

June 27, 2024

Friedrich Nietzsche fountain on Spalentorweg

Where Spalentorweg meets Schützengraben, a fountain was set in 1864, which was long called the "Schützengraben fountain". It was certainly familiar to the young Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). As a professor at the university, he spent a decade in Basel from 1869 to 1879.

During these ten years, he lived mostly in the vicinity of this fountain. Shortly after his arrival in Basel, the thinker found a room as a subtenant of a seamstress at Spalentorweg 2. From July 1869 he had another room at Schützengraben 47 until he moved into his first own apartment.

From 1875 to 1876 Nietzsche then lived at Spalentorweg 48, where a memorial plaque still commemorates him today. In all these years, his path to the university often led past this babbling fountain, which is reminiscent of a passage from his later work "The Gay Science":

"We generous and rich in spirit, who stand like open wells on the street and do not want to prevent anyone from drawing from us...".

These lines can also be found today on a memorial plaque that can be seen on the back of the fountain. Basel Nietzsche friends had it installed on August 25, 2015, the 115th anniversary of the philosopher's death. On this occasion, the fountain was also named "Friedrich Nietzsche Fountain".

Source: grabmacherjoggi.ch/basler_pflaster/baslerpflaster_003.html

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