Jubilejní kašna, Baroque Revival fountain in Sokolov, Czech Republic
The Jubilejní kašna is a baroque revival fountain located in Old Square in Sokolov, featuring stone construction with decorative water elements arranged around a central point. The structure sits prominently on the square and helps define the character of this historic public space.
The fountain was unveiled on 11 December 1898 for the 50th anniversary of Franz Joseph I's accession. The Schram family funded it, with Adolf Schram Sr. as initiator. Moved in the early 1950s, dismantled in 1960, it was restored using period photographs and re-unveiled on 27 October 1998.
The fountain is also called Schramova kašna after the Schram family, whose elder Adolf initiated it. Two bronze reliefs on the granite pedestal show August Schram, an honorary citizen already dead in 1898, and the Sokolov town coat. A third relief of Franz Joseph I was removed in the 1920s under the republic's protection law.
The fountain stands on the Old Square (Staré náměstí), beside the Church of St. James the Greater and the Sokolov art school. The granite basin's widened rim serves as a seat. Since 2001 a wooden casing protects the sculpture from vandalism and frost in winter, so the bronze putti may be hidden in cold months.
The bronze of the putti group was cast from a three-tonne statue of Lenin by Ladislav Grulich, which the town gave to students of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts for their first work in bronze. The fountain was restored under Petr Siegel and unveiled again on 27 October 1998, a hundred years after its first unveiling.
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