Triton Fountain
Triton Fountain
1687
Square layout from above looking southeast
The reconstruction of a fountain "uf dem Neuenbaw" (= Maxplatz), already desired in 1684 according to a council decree, was not, as is often claimed, carried out by Johann Leonhard Bromig in 1687, but rather by Johann Jacob Sommer from Künzelsau.
The immediate model was the Fontana del Tritone in the Piazza Barberini in Rome, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1642/43 for Pope Urban VIII.
In Beck's Chronicle, it states on folio... 382r-v: “On November 17th [1687], the newly constructed fountain on the New Building was used for the first time, and the council rose up. Many council members traveled and walked there, as well as a large crowd of people. The master sculptor who made the image and the bell came from Kindeshaim in the Hohenlohe district. This master sculptor received one hundred Thalers in wages for the stone image and the bell, along with his free board.”
Erich Mulzer has identified Kindeshaim with Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district. The busy sculptor from there could be the busy Johann Jacob Sommer (baptized on April 8, 1645, as the son of Eberhard and Lucia Sommer, buried February 23, 1715). Other chronicles also mention a sculptor from Künzelsau for the fountain, but his name is never given.
The fountain figure and basin, which were severely damaged in World War II, were reconstructed by the sculptor Albert Feist.
Lit.: Erich Mulzer: The Triton Fountain on Maxplatz – A Piece of Unknown Nuremberg?,
in: Nuremberg Old Town Reports 19 (1994), pp. 27–62.
See also: The New Building in Nuremberg (Maxplatz)
Location: Nuremberg, Maxplatz
photo Apr 2018, Pablo de la Riestra
Triton Fountain
1687
Overall view from above looking southeast
The reconstruction of a fountain "uf dem Neuenbaw" (= Maxplatz), already desired in 1684 according to a council decree, was not, as is often claimed, carried out by Johann Leonhard Bromig in 1687, but rather by Johann Jacob Sommer from Künzelsau.
The immediate model was the Fontana del Tritone in the Piazza Barberini in Rome, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1642/43 for Pope Urban VIII.
In Beck's Chronicle, it states on folio... 382r-v: “On November 17th [1687], the newly constructed fountain on the New Building was used for the first time, and the council rose up. Many council members traveled and walked there, as well as a large crowd of people. The master sculptor who made the image and the bell came from Kindeshaim in the Hohenlohe district. This master sculptor received one hundred Thalers in wages for the stone image and the bell, along with his free board.”
Erich Mulzer has identified Kindeshaim with Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district. The busy sculptor from there could be the busy Johann Jacob Sommer (baptized on April 8, 1645, as the son of Eberhard and Lucia Sommer, buried February 23, 1715). Other chronicles also mention a sculptor from Künzelsau for the fountain, but his name is never given.
The fountain figure and basin, which were severely damaged in World War II, were reconstructed by the sculptor Albert Feist.
Lit.: Erich Mulzer: The Triton Fountain on Maxplatz – A Piece of Unknown Nuremberg?,
in: Nuremberg Old Town Reports 19 (1994), pp. 27–62.
See also: The New Building in Nuremberg (Maxplatz)
Location: Nuremberg, Maxplatz
photo 2018, Pablo de la Riestra
Triton Fountain
1687
Overall view from the east
The reconstruction of a fountain "uf dem Neuenbaw" (= Maxplatz), already desired in 1684 according to a council decree, was not, as is often claimed, carried out by Johann Leonhard Bromig in 1687, but rather by Johann Jacob Sommer from Künzelsau.
The immediate model was the Fontana del Tritone in the Piazza Barberini in Rome, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1642/43 for Pope Urban VIII.
In Beck's Chronicle, it states on folio... 382r-v: “On November 17th [1687], the newly constructed fountain on the New Building was used for the first time, and the council rose up. Many council members traveled and walked there, as well as a large crowd of people. The master sculptor who made the image and the bell came from Kindeshaim in the Hohenlohe district. This master sculptor received one hundred Thalers in wages for the stone image and the bell, along with his free board.”
Erich Mulzer has identified Kindeshaim with Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district. The busy sculptor from there could be the busy Johann Jacob Sommer (baptized on April 8, 1645, as the son of Eberhard and Lucia Sommer, buried February 23, 1715). Other chronicles also mention a sculptor from Künzelsau for the fountain, but his name is never given.
The fountain figure and basin, which were severely damaged in World War II, were reconstructed by the sculptor Albert Feist.
Lit.: Erich Mulzer: The Triton Fountain on Maxplatz – A Piece of Unknown Nuremberg?,
in: Nuremberg Old Town Reports 19 (1994), pp. 27–62.
See also: The New Building in Nuremberg (Maxplatz)
Location: Nuremberg, Maxplatz
photo 2015, Theo Noll
Triton Fountain
1687
Detail view from the east
The reconstruction of a fountain "uf dem Neuenbaw" (= Maxplatz), already desired in 1684 according to a council decree, was not, as is often claimed, carried out by Johann Leonhard Bromig in 1687, but rather by Johann Jacob Sommer from Künzelsau.
The immediate model was the Fontana del Tritone in the Piazza Barberini in Rome, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1642/43 for Pope Urban VIII.
In Beck's Chronicle, it states on folio... 382r-v: “On November 17th [1687], the newly constructed fountain on the New Building was used for the first time, and the council rose up. Many council members traveled and walked there, as well as a large crowd of people. The master sculptor who made the image and the bell came from Kindeshaim in the Hohenlohe district. This master sculptor received one hundred Thalers in wages for the stone image and the bell, along with his free board.”
Erich Mulzer has identified Kindeshaim with Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district. The busy sculptor from there could be the busy Johann Jacob Sommer (baptized on April 8, 1645, as the son of Eberhard and Lucia Sommer, buried February 23, 1715). Other chronicles also mention a sculptor from Künzelsau for the fountain, but his name is never given.
The fountain figure and basin, which were severely damaged in World War II, were reconstructed by the sculptor Albert Feist.
Lit.: Erich Mulzer: The Triton Fountain on Maxplatz – A Piece of Unknown Nuremberg?,
in: Nuremberg Old Town Reports 19 (1994), pp. 27–62.
See also: The New Building in Nuremberg (Maxplatz)
Location: Nuremberg, Maxplatz
photo Feb 2011, Pablo de la Riestra
Triton Fountain
1687
Rome, Piazza Barberini / Nuremberg, Maxplatz
The reconstruction of a fountain "uf dem Neuenbaw" (= Maxplatz), already desired in 1684 according to a council decree, was not, as is often claimed, carried out by Johann Leonhard Bromig in 1687, but rather by Johann Jacob Sommer from Künzelsau.
The immediate model was the Fontana del Tritone in the Piazza Barberini in Rome, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1642/43 for Pope Urban VIII.
In Beck's Chronicle, it states on folio... 382r-v: “On November 17th [1687], the newly constructed fountain on the New Building was used for the first time, and the council rose up. Many council members traveled and walked there, as well as a large crowd of people. The master sculptor who made the image and the bell came from Kindeshaim in the Hohenlohe district. This master sculptor received one hundred Thalers in wages for the stone image and the bell, along with his free board.”
Erich Mulzer has identified Kindeshaim with Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district. The busy sculptor from there could be the busy Johann Jacob Sommer (baptized on April 8, 1645, as the son of Eberhard and Lucia Sommer, buried February 23, 1715). Other chronicles also mention a sculptor from Künzelsau for the fountain, but his name is never given.
The fountain figure and basin, which were severely damaged in World War II, were reconstructed by the sculptor Albert Feist.
Lit.: Erich Mulzer: The Triton Fountain on Maxplatz – A Piece of Unknown Nuremberg?,
in: Nuremberg Old Town Reports 19 (1994), pp. 27–62.
See also: The New Building in Nuremberg (Maxplatz)
Location: Rome, Piazza Barberini / Nuremberg, Maxplatz
photo 2016 / 2011, Pablo de la Riestra, Theo Noll
Triton Fountain
1687
Fontana del Tritone from 1643 in Rome / Triton Fountain of Nuremberg 1687
The reconstruction of a fountain "uf dem Neuenbaw" (= Maxplatz), already desired in 1684 according to a council decree, was not, as is often claimed, carried out by Johann Leonhard Bromig in 1687, but rather by Johann Jacob Sommer from Künzelsau.
The immediate model was the Fontana del Tritone in the Piazza Barberini in Rome, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1642/43 for Pope Urban VIII.
In Beck's Chronicle, it states on folio... 382r-v: “On November 17th [1687], the newly constructed fountain on the New Building was used for the first time, and the council rose up. Many council members traveled and walked there, as well as a large crowd of people. The master sculptor who made the image and the bell came from Kindeshaim in the Hohenlohe district. This master sculptor received one hundred Thalers in wages for the stone image and the bell, along with his free board.”
Erich Mulzer has identified Kindeshaim with Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district. The busy sculptor from there could be the busy Johann Jacob Sommer (baptized on April 8, 1645, as the son of Eberhard and Lucia Sommer, buried February 23, 1715). Other chronicles also mention a sculptor from Künzelsau for the fountain, but his name is never given.
The fountain figure and basin, which were severely damaged in World War II, were reconstructed by the sculptor Albert Feist.
Lit.: Erich Mulzer: The Triton Fountain on Maxplatz – A Piece of Unknown Nuremberg?,
in: Nuremberg Old Town Reports 19 (1994), pp. 27–62.
See also: The New Building in Nuremberg (Maxplatz)
Location: Rom, Piazza Barberini / Nürnberg, Maxplatz
photo 2025 und 2016, Pablo de la Riestra
Triton Fountain
1687
Fontana del Tritone from 1643 in Rome / Triton Fountain of Nuremberg 1687
The reconstruction of a fountain "uf dem Neuenbaw" (= Maxplatz), already desired in 1684 according to a council decree, was not, as is often claimed, carried out by Johann Leonhard Bromig in 1687, but rather by Johann Jacob Sommer from Künzelsau.
The immediate model was the Fontana del Tritone in the Piazza Barberini in Rome, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1642/43 for Pope Urban VIII.
In Beck's Chronicle, it states on folio... 382r-v: “On November 17th [1687], the newly constructed fountain on the New Building was used for the first time, and the council rose up. Many council members traveled and walked there, as well as a large crowd of people. The master sculptor who made the image and the bell came from Kindeshaim in the Hohenlohe district. This master sculptor received one hundred Thalers in wages for the stone image and the bell, along with his free board.”
Erich Mulzer has identified Kindeshaim with Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district. The busy sculptor from there could be the busy Johann Jacob Sommer (baptized on April 8, 1645, as the son of Eberhard and Lucia Sommer, buried February 23, 1715). Other chronicles also mention a sculptor from Künzelsau for the fountain, but his name is never given.
The fountain figure and basin, which were severely damaged in World War II, were reconstructed by the sculptor Albert Feist.
Lit.: Erich Mulzer: The Triton Fountain on Maxplatz – A Piece of Unknown Nuremberg?,
in: Nuremberg Old Town Reports 19 (1994), pp. 27–62.
See also: The New Building in Nuremberg (Maxplatz)
Location: Rom, Piazza Barberini / Nürnberg, Maxplatz
photo 2016, Pablo de la Riestra, Theo Noll
Triton Fountain
1687
View from the west
The reconstruction of a fountain "uf dem Neuenbaw" (= Maxplatz), already desired in 1684 according to a council decree, was not, as is often claimed, carried out by Johann Leonhard Bromig in 1687, but rather by Johann Jacob Sommer from Künzelsau.
The immediate model was the Fontana del Tritone in the Piazza Barberini in Rome, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1642/43 for Pope Urban VIII.
In Beck's Chronicle, it states on folio... 382r-v: “On November 17th [1687], the newly constructed fountain on the New Building was used for the first time, and the council rose up. Many council members traveled and walked there, as well as a large crowd of people. The master sculptor who made the image and the bell came from Kindeshaim in the Hohenlohe district. This master sculptor received one hundred Thalers in wages for the stone image and the bell, along with his free board.”
Erich Mulzer has identified Kindeshaim with Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district. The busy sculptor from there could be the busy Johann Jacob Sommer (baptized on April 8, 1645, as the son of Eberhard and Lucia Sommer, buried February 23, 1715). Other chronicles also mention a sculptor from Künzelsau for the fountain, but his name is never given.
The fountain figure and basin, which were severely damaged in World War II, were reconstructed by the sculptor Albert Feist.
Lit.: Erich Mulzer: The Triton Fountain on Maxplatz – A Piece of Unknown Nuremberg?,
in: Nuremberg Old Town Reports 19 (1994), pp. 27–62.
See also: The New Building in Nuremberg (Maxplatz)
Location: Nuremberg, Maxplatz
photo 2016, Theo Noll
Triton Fountain
1687
Basin with Triton
The reconstruction of a fountain "uf dem Neuenbaw" (= Maxplatz), already desired in 1684 according to a council decree, was not, as is often claimed, carried out by Johann Leonhard Bromig in 1687, but rather by Johann Jacob Sommer from Künzelsau.
The immediate model was the Fontana del Tritone in the Piazza Barberini in Rome, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1642/43 for Pope Urban VIII.
In Beck's Chronicle, it states on folio... 382r-v: “On November 17th [1687], the newly constructed fountain on the New Building was used for the first time, and the council rose up. Many council members traveled and walked there, as well as a large crowd of people. The master sculptor who made the image and the bell came from Kindeshaim in the Hohenlohe district. This master sculptor received one hundred Thalers in wages for the stone image and the bell, along with his free board.”
Erich Mulzer has identified Kindeshaim with Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district. The busy sculptor from there could be the busy Johann Jacob Sommer (baptized on April 8, 1645, as the son of Eberhard and Lucia Sommer, buried February 23, 1715). Other chronicles also mention a sculptor from Künzelsau for the fountain, but his name is never given.
The fountain figure and basin, which were severely damaged in World War II, were reconstructed by the sculptor Albert Feist.
Lit.: Erich Mulzer: The Triton Fountain on Maxplatz – A Piece of Unknown Nuremberg?,
in: Nuremberg Old Town Reports 19 (1994), pp. 27–62.
See also: The New Building in Nuremberg (Maxplatz)
Location: Rom, Piazza Barberini / Nürnberg, Maxplatz
photo 2016, Theo Noll
Triton Fountain
1687
Basin with Triton, view in winter
The reconstruction of a fountain "uf dem Neuenbaw" (= Maxplatz), already desired in 1684 according to a council decree, was not, as is often claimed, carried out by Johann Leonhard Bromig in 1687, but rather by Johann Jacob Sommer from Künzelsau.
The immediate model was the Fontana del Tritone in the Piazza Barberini in Rome, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1642/43 for Pope Urban VIII.
In Beck's Chronicle, it states on folio... 382r-v: “On November 17th [1687], the newly constructed fountain on the New Building was used for the first time, and the council rose up. Many council members traveled and walked there, as well as a large crowd of people. The master sculptor who made the image and the bell came from Kindeshaim in the Hohenlohe district. This master sculptor received one hundred Thalers in wages for the stone image and the bell, along with his free board.”
Erich Mulzer has identified Kindeshaim with Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district. The busy sculptor from there could be the busy Johann Jacob Sommer (baptized on April 8, 1645, as the son of Eberhard and Lucia Sommer, buried February 23, 1715). Other chronicles also mention a sculptor from Künzelsau for the fountain, but his name is never given.
The fountain figure and basin, which were severely damaged in World War II, were reconstructed by the sculptor Albert Feist.
Lit.: Erich Mulzer: The Triton Fountain on Maxplatz – A Piece of Unknown Nuremberg?,
in: Nuremberg Old Town Reports 19 (1994), pp. 27–62.
See also: The New Building in Nuremberg (Maxplatz)
Location: Nuremberg, Maxplatz
photo Mar 2016, Theo Noll
Triton Fountain
1687
Triton, detail
The reconstruction of a fountain "uf dem Neuenbaw" (= Maxplatz), already desired in 1684 according to a council decree, was not, as is often claimed, carried out by Johann Leonhard Bromig in 1687, but rather by Johann Jacob Sommer from Künzelsau.
The immediate model was the Fontana del Tritone in the Piazza Barberini in Rome, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1642/43 for Pope Urban VIII.
In Beck's Chronicle, it states on folio... 382r-v: “On November 17th [1687], the newly constructed fountain on the New Building was used for the first time, and the council rose up. Many council members traveled and walked there, as well as a large crowd of people. The master sculptor who made the image and the bell came from Kindeshaim in the Hohenlohe district. This master sculptor received one hundred Thalers in wages for the stone image and the bell, along with his free board.”
Erich Mulzer has identified Kindeshaim with Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district. The busy sculptor from there could be the busy Johann Jacob Sommer (baptized on April 8, 1645, as the son of Eberhard and Lucia Sommer, buried February 23, 1715). Other chronicles also mention a sculptor from Künzelsau for the fountain, but his name is never given.
The fountain figure and basin, which were severely damaged in World War II, were reconstructed by the sculptor Albert Feist.
Lit.: Erich Mulzer: The Triton Fountain on Maxplatz – A Piece of Unknown Nuremberg?,
in: Nuremberg Old Town Reports 19 (1994), pp. 27–62.
See also: The New Building in Nuremberg (Maxplatz)
Location: Nuremberg, Maxplatz
photo 2016, Theo Noll
Triton Fountain
1687
Basin with bowl
The reconstruction of a fountain "uf dem Neuenbaw" (= Maxplatz), already desired in 1684 according to a council decree, was not, as is often claimed, carried out by Johann Leonhard Bromig in 1687, but rather by Johann Jacob Sommer from Künzelsau.
The immediate model was the Fontana del Tritone in the Piazza Barberini in Rome, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1642/43 for Pope Urban VIII.
In Beck's Chronicle, it states on folio... 382r-v: “On November 17th [1687], the newly constructed fountain on the New Building was used for the first time, and the council rose up. Many council members traveled and walked there, as well as a large crowd of people. The master sculptor who made the image and the bell came from Kindeshaim in the Hohenlohe district. This master sculptor received one hundred Thalers in wages for the stone image and the bell, along with his free board.”
Erich Mulzer has identified Kindeshaim with Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district. The busy sculptor from there could be the busy Johann Jacob Sommer (baptized on April 8, 1645, as the son of Eberhard and Lucia Sommer, buried February 23, 1715). Other chronicles also mention a sculptor from Künzelsau for the fountain, but his name is never given.
The fountain figure and basin, which were severely damaged in World War II, were reconstructed by the sculptor Albert Feist.
Lit.: Erich Mulzer: The Triton Fountain on Maxplatz – A Piece of Unknown Nuremberg?,
in: Nuremberg Old Town Reports 19 (1994), pp. 27–62.
See also: The New Building in Nuremberg (Maxplatz)
Location: Nuremberg, Maxplatz
photo 2016, Theo Noll
Triton Fountain
1687
Basin with bowl
The reconstruction of a fountain "uf dem Neuenbaw" (= Maxplatz), already desired in 1684 according to a council decree, was not, as is often claimed, carried out by Johann Leonhard Bromig in 1687, but rather by Johann Jacob Sommer from Künzelsau.
The immediate model was the Fontana del Tritone in the Piazza Barberini in Rome, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1642/43 for Pope Urban VIII.
In Beck's Chronicle, it states on folio... 382r-v: “On November 17th [1687], the newly constructed fountain on the New Building was used for the first time, and the council rose up. Many council members traveled and walked there, as well as a large crowd of people. The master sculptor who made the image and the bell came from Kindeshaim in the Hohenlohe district. This master sculptor received one hundred Thalers in wages for the stone image and the bell, along with his free board.”
Erich Mulzer has identified Kindeshaim with Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district. The busy sculptor from there could be the busy Johann Jacob Sommer (baptized on April 8, 1645, as the son of Eberhard and Lucia Sommer, buried February 23, 1715). Other chronicles also mention a sculptor from Künzelsau for the fountain, but his name is never given.
The fountain figure and basin, which were severely damaged in World War II, were reconstructed by the sculptor Albert Feist.
Lit.: Erich Mulzer: The Triton Fountain on Maxplatz – A Piece of Unknown Nuremberg?,
in: Nuremberg Old Town Reports 19 (1994), pp. 27–62.
See also: The New Building in Nuremberg (Maxplatz)
Location: Nuremberg, Maxplatz
photo 2016, Theo Noll
Triton Fountain
1687
Bowl supported by a sea creature
photo 2016, Theo Noll
The reconstruction of a fountain "uf dem Neuenbaw" (= Maxplatz), already desired in 1684 according to a council decree, was not, as is often claimed, carried out by Johann Leonhard Bromig in 1687, but rather by Johann Jacob Sommer from Künzelsau.
The immediate model was the Fontana del Tritone in the Piazza Barberini in Rome, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1642/43 for Pope Urban VIII.
In Beck's Chronicle, it states on folio... 382r-v: “On November 17th [1687], the newly constructed fountain on the New Building was used for the first time, and the council rose up. Many council members traveled and walked there, as well as a large crowd of people. The master sculptor who made the image and the bell came from Kindeshaim in the Hohenlohe district. This master sculptor received one hundred Thalers in wages for the stone image and the bell, along with his free board.”
Erich Mulzer has identified Kindeshaim with Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district. The busy sculptor from there could be the busy Johann Jacob Sommer (baptized on April 8, 1645, as the son of Eberhard and Lucia Sommer, buried February 23, 1715). Other chronicles also mention a sculptor from Künzelsau for the fountain, but his name is never given.
The fountain figure and basin, which were severely damaged in World War II, were reconstructed by the sculptor Albert Feist.
Lit.: Erich Mulzer: The Triton Fountain on Maxplatz – A Piece of Unknown Nuremberg?,
in: Nuremberg Old Town Reports 19 (1994), pp. 27–62.
See also: The New Building in Nuremberg (Maxplatz)
Location: Nuremberg, Maxplatz
Triton Fountain
1687
Wappen des Gottlieb Volckamer (1648-1709), der 1682-1709 als Ratsbaumeister die Bauvorhaben der Stadt leitete und überwachte, und Datierung 1687
photo 2016, Theo Noll
The reconstruction of a fountain "uf dem Neuenbaw" (= Maxplatz), already desired in 1684 according to a council decree, was not, as is often claimed, carried out by Johann Leonhard Bromig in 1687, but rather by Johann Jacob Sommer from Künzelsau.
The immediate model was the Fontana del Tritone in the Piazza Barberini in Rome, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1642/43 for Pope Urban VIII.
In Beck's Chronicle, it states on folio... 382r-v: “On November 17th [1687], the newly constructed fountain on the New Building was used for the first time, and the council rose up. Many council members traveled and walked there, as well as a large crowd of people. The master sculptor who made the image and the bell came from Kindeshaim in the Hohenlohe district. This master sculptor received one hundred Thalers in wages for the stone image and the bell, along with his free board.”
Erich Mulzer has identified Kindeshaim with Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district. The busy sculptor from there could be the busy Johann Jacob Sommer (baptized on April 8, 1645, as the son of Eberhard and Lucia Sommer, buried February 23, 1715). Other chronicles also mention a sculptor from Künzelsau for the fountain, but his name is never given.
The fountain figure and basin, which were severely damaged in World War II, were reconstructed by the sculptor Albert Feist.
Lit.: Erich Mulzer: The Triton Fountain on Maxplatz – A Piece of Unknown Nuremberg?,
in: Nuremberg Old Town Reports 19 (1994), pp. 27–62.
See also: The New Building in Nuremberg (Maxplatz)
Location: Nürnberg, Maxplatz