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Fontaine Bruat with Colmar Sign

Fontaine Bruat with Colmar Sign

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Fontaine Bruat with Colmar Sign

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Location: Kolmar, Colmar-Ribeauvillé, Alsace, France

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

July 24, 2022

Created in honor of Admiral Armand-Joseph Bruat (1796-1855), born in Colmar, this fountain is a work by Auguste Bartholdi, inaugurated in 1864. It is the first in Colmar to have a water jet system. The fountain representing the allegories of the four continents was ambitious by the Nazis in 1940. In 1958, the bronze statue was restored and placed on a new fountain built by the sculptor Choain and the architect Porte. The original heads, in sandstone, are kept in the Bartholdi Heads Museum. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) reports in his writings that the head of the African was at the origin of his vocation as a forest doctor.

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Stephan N

October 16, 2022

The fountain, created by Auguste Bartholdi and inaugurated in 1864, crowned by the statue of the admiral and commander-in-chief of the French Navy during the Crimean campaign, Armand-Joseph Bruat (1796-1855), was destroyed in 1940. The allegories representing the four continents and the basin were reconstructed in 1958; the original sandstone heads are kept in the Bartholdi Museum: the figure of the African man sparked Albert Schweitzer's calling, the Oceanian woman bears the features of Yves Saint-Laurent's great-grandmother, who was married to a friend of the sculptor." This is what is written on the plaque not far from the fountain. It should also be added that the sculptor Bartholdi is the creator of the Statue of Liberty in New York.
Source:
brunnenturmfigur.de/index.php?cat=Brunnen%20und%20Wasserspiele%2Fin%20aller%20Welt%2FFrankreich&page=Colmar

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Moonbeam🌜

September 1, 2022

This round fountain, about 18 metres in diameter, is located in the centre of the Champ-de-Mars park, south of the historic centre of Colmar. The fountain has two concentric round basins and a bronze statue of Admiral Bruat in the centre.
The fountain was created by Fréderic-Auguste Bartholdi and inaugurated in 1864. The statue's bronze comes from enemy cannons captured by Bruat in his battles.
At the edge of the fountain are four sandstone statues of people representing the different continents.
Armand Joseph Bruat was born in Colmar in 1796. He joined the French Navy in 1811. In his early years he served in Brazil, the West Indies, the Eastern Mediterranean, Senegal and the Pacific. He took part in the Battle of Navarino in 1827. He was taken prisoner in Algiers in 1830. In 1838 he was promoted to captain and in 1843 he was appointed governor of the Marquesas Islands. In 1849 Bruat became governor general of the Antilles and in 1852 he was promoted to vice admiral. During the Crimean War he was commander of the French fleet in the Black Sea. He died of cholera on his flagship in 1855 on the way back to France.
Source: waymarking.com/waymarks/WMNHXF_Fontaine_Bruat_colmar_Alsace_France

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