Ernst-Feuerhake-Brunnen, Public fountain in Coppenbrügge, Germany.

The Ernst-Feuerhake-Brunnen is a stone fountain in Coppenbrügge with a wide, low basin enclosed by a curved parapet. A square pedestal rises from the centre, topped by a blue-green bronze figure of a seated man holding an object across his lap. A black plaque on the pedestal reads "Ernst Feuerhake-Brunnen 1981", and below it a bronze face spouts water into a small scalloped bowl.

Ernst Feuerhake, born in Coppenbrügge and wealthy as a merchant in Copenhagen, funded a water main for the town after typhus outbreaks closed the ochre-tainted street pumps; its basin in the Ith was begun in 1906 and fed the supply from 1907. The fountain honouring him was designed by Copenhagen sculptor Hans Christian Petersen, cast by Lauritz Rasmussen and inaugurated on 12 August 1908 at Schloßstraße/Bahnhofstraße, where the demolished Spritzenhaus had stood. In the 1960s it was moved to a property on Bahnhofstraße.

The bronze figure on the fountain is a young woman gathering grain, cast in Copenhagen by the sculptor Hans Christian Petersen at the Lauritz Rasmussen foundry. The commission came from Ernst Feuerhake himself, who financed the fountain after the town's magistrate proposed it but lacked the money. A small black plaque with his name and the year 1908 was fixed to the base at the municipality's expense.

The fountain no longer stands at its original corner of Schloßstraße and Bahnhofstraße: in the 1960s it was moved to a property on Bahnhofstraße, and the surrounding balustrade with iron chains was not reinstalled. Look for the black plaque with gold lettering on the pedestal to confirm the monument.

The bronze figure on the pedestal is not the original: the fountain was inaugurated on 12 August 1908 with a young woman gathering grain on top, and two bronze crocodiles sprayed water into the basin. In the 1960s the fountain was moved from the corner of Schloßstraße/Bahnhofstraße to a property on Bahnhofstraße, and the balustrade with iron chains was left behind. The plaque now reads "Ernst Feuerhake-Brunnen 1981".