Olten fountains #04 Crown Fountain (City Church / Basler Strasse, 1834)
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the-stooss
N 47° 21.029 E 007° 54.144
32T E 417101 N 5244696
In Switzerland are all fountain filled with drinking water. should not it be, it must be clearly declared "No drink water"
Waymark Code: WMMPPP
Location: Solothurn, Switzerland
Date Posted: 10/21/2014
Views: 9
1702 was the construction of the canon's houses at today's Kirchgasse started, in which the pin Expectant was originally installed. After the failure of this plan was the corner house to the mill gate 1746 to the inn, as Heinrich von Arx his "Zur Krone" from the old town before the Upper Gate moved. From 1781 to 1794 there held the Helvetic Society from their meetings. By the year 1939 stood next to the former guest house and later store the magnificent Crown Fountain in 1834 from the workshop of the sculptor Solothurn Rust and Baumann, who had replaced a wooden predecessor. When he in turn had to give way to the growing traffic in 1939, he was moved to the east side of the town church.
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