Year of construction:
1890
Design:
Georg Heinrich Joseph Schwabe
Implementation:
Christoph Lenz
Location:
Depiction:
On top of a granite obelisk approximately 10 meters high stands a bronze statuette of a genius on a winged wheel.
At the foot of the obelisk sit Furthia and Noris, the personifications of the cities of Fürth and Nuremberg. The monument fountain glorifies the first German train journey as a triumph of technology.
History:
On December 7, 1885, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Adler's journey on the Ludwig Railway between Nuremberg and Fürth, the symbolic foundation stone for a monument was laid at Nuremberg's Ludwigsbahnhof station.
The fountain, which cost 58,500 marks, was unveiled on October 16, 1890.
In 1927, the monument was moved to the city limits between Nuremberg and Fürth as part of the expansion of the tram system, and in 1965 it was moved to a nearby park due to the construction of the subway.
The patron and fountain enthusiast Kurt Klutentreter made it possible for the monument to be moved to Fürther Straße at the eastern entrance of the Bärenschanze subway station, its current location, in 1993.
Reference:
Kurt Müller: Gerühmt, verbannt und wiederentdeckt. Die komplizierte Geschichte des Kunstbrunnens zur Erinnerung an die erste deutsche Eisenbahn. (Der Eisenbahnbrunnen.) In: Nürnberger Altstadtberichte, Heft 16 (1991).
Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg. 2., verbesserte Auflage. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nürnberg 2000.