Oberes Brunnenmeisterhaus

Oberes Brunnenmeisterhaus stands at the Rotes Tor waterworks in Augsburg, Germany, beside the Vorderer Lech canal. Its two-storey façade carries a mansard roof and a central dormer. A small bridge crosses the canal to the entrance, where bronze dolphins flank the doorway as water-spouting sculptures.

Built in the seventeenth century, the building gained its present exterior in the eighteenth century, with classicist details added during the nineteenth. This residence belonged to Augsburg’s fountain master. A passage connects it with the Kleine Wasserturm, linking domestic life to the city’s water system. The preserved complex includes three water towers and forms part of Augsburg’s UNESCO World Heritage waterworks. Its museum presents the technical history of water supply, with old fresco fragments, portraits of Caspar Walter, and an original copy of Hydraulica Augustana. The complex operated for centuries before a new waterworks replaced it elsewhere. The dolphins remain the clearest detail, watching over the entrance from their bronze positions.