Löwenbrunnen
Löwenbrunnen stands on Münsterplatz in Ulm, where two elongated lions face away from each other above a spiralling column. The Mannerist forms give the fountain a distinctive silhouette.
Peter Schmid created the work around 1590, with one lion holding the imperial eagle and the other bearing Ulm’s city arms. Its setting changed during construction of Ulm Minster’s tower in the 1870s, when the fountain moved into municipal storage before returning in 1914. World War Two damaged the figures, and Karl Friedrich, Gerhard Lorenz, and Franz Dornacher later repaired or restored them. The original figures were replaced by copies during the twentieth century, while an octagonal cast-iron basin from Ulm’s Hopf foundry completed the reconstruction. Richard Meier’s redesign of Münsterplatz brought the fountain near its original position in 1992.
Look closely at the basin, whose Empire-style motifs contrast with the twisted column and elongated lions above.
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