WM-Brunnen, Public fountain in Trudering-Riem, Germany.

The WM-Brunnen is a fountain in Munich's Trudering-Riem district, set in front of the north entrance of the Neue Messe München. Its centrepiece is a polished stone sphere two metres in diameter and weighing 11.3 tonnes, carved from South African Impala stone with the pattern of the 2006 World Cup ball "+Teamgeist" and the FIFA logo airbrushed on. The sphere rests in a basin hollowed from Tittlinger granite and glides on a thin film of water.

The fountain was built for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and placed in front of the World Cup media centre at the north entrance of Messe München. It was inaugurated on 12 May 2006 by Franz Beckenbauer, HBS chief executive Francis Tellier, Bavarian state minister Eberhard Sinner, finance state secretary Franz Meyer and trade-fair director Manfred Wutzlhofer. The stone-cutting firm from Aicha vorm Wald shaped the ball from a 33-tonne block over ten weeks.

The stone ball carries the pattern of the original 2006 World Cup ball "+Teamgeist" and the FIFA logo "Celebrating Faces of Football", airbrushed onto the polished surface. The fountain stands by the north entrance of the Neue Messe München, where the tournament's media centre was set up, so the football motif marks the spot rather than serving a drinking function.

The fountain stands at the north entrance of Messe München in Trudering-Riem. It is a sculptural water feature, not a drinking water point. Visitors can turn the 11.3-tonne stone ball with one hand while water flows over it.

The 11.3-tonne sphere rests in a basin cut from Tittlinger granite and turns on a film of water fed at 200 litres per minute. Because the calibrated ball and its socket fit so closely, one hand can change its direction of rotation. The block weighed 33 tonnes before a Lower Bavarian stonemasonry firm rounded and polished it over ten weeks.