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Rathausplatz

Rathausbrunnen

Town Hall Fountain

Lambert Johnen
1979

Description

Octagonal fountain with in the center a column with four reliefs showing the economic and cultural pillars of the municipality of Simmerath.

Simmerath - Rathausbrunnen
Land- und Forstwirtschaft / Agriculture and forestry
a milking farmer and lumberjacks.
Industrie / Industry
a founder with in the background factories - referring to Otto Junker in Lammertsdorf - and an electricity pylon.

Gesundheitswesen und Kirche / Health care and church
a saint helping a cripple (the same scene is on a wall of the St. Brigida Hospital in Simmerath) with the church of Simmerath and the Johanniskapelle (1665) in the background Simmerath - Rathausbrunnen
Tourismus / Tourism
a stagecoach and a boat on the lake.

Inscription(s)

RATHAUS —
BRUNNEN
auftraggeber
gemeinde simmerath
entwurf u. künstl.
gestaltung
lambert johnen
architekt bda
die bauarbeiten am
brunnen führte die
eifelvereins ortsgr.
simmerath in eigen-
initiative durch
27.4.79

Sculptor

Lambert Johnen, German architect from Simmerath.

Sources & Information

Gemeinde Simmerath, Dorfrundgang (PDF on-line).

Locatie (N 50°36'23" - E 6°18'13") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: denw581; Photograph: 9 April 2017
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Land- und Forstwirtschaft / Agriculture and forestry a milking farmer and lumberjacks.	Industrie / Industry a founder with in the background factories - referring to Otto Junker in Lammertsdorf - and an electricity pylon.
Gesundheitswesen und Kirche / Health care and church a saint helping a cripple (the same scene is on a wall of the St. Brigida Hospital in Simmerath) with the church of Simmerath and the Johanniskapelle (1665) in the background	Tourismus / Tourism a stagecoach and a boat on the lake.