The water features fascinate us in all districts. These are the oldest and the youngest fountains in Berlin. And unfortunately these are gone forever.
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
► OLD: fountain basin in the garden of Villa Grisebach, since 1890.
►NEW: Water table at Lehniner Platz, fountain at Friedrich-Hollaender-Platz 2012
► GONE: Bird bath with turtle in Gerhart-Hauptmann-Park. Removed in 2015 at the request of a citizens’ initiative because it allegedly represented a dangerous tripping hazard when playing ball.
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
►OLD: The 19 meter high Peace Column on Mehringplatz, which stands in a round pool of water. The granite and marble ensemble is from 1843
►NEW: Fountain ensemble made of four Slovenian tuff blocks over which water runs. Since 2010 in Hof Naglerstraße 4.
►GONE: The water lily fountain on the corner of Friedenstrasse and Palisadenstrasse, erected in 1986. Heavily damaged by vandalism and dismantled in 2014.
Lichtenberg
►OLD: Since 1900, the fountain with fountain and water basin has stood on the lawn of the Queen Elisabeth Herzberge Evangelical Hospital.
►NEW: The fountain field on Landsberger Allee in front of the Allee-Center. Was inaugurated in 2014.
►GONE: There was a rectangular water stone at the same place from 1985 to 2013. Dismantled due to damage and permanent pollution.
Marzahn-Hellersdorf
►OLD: Around 1890 a monumental fountain was built on the site of today’s accident hospital. Today only the stone basin remains.
►NEW: The fountain at Fred-Löwenberg-Platz. Built in 2012, can also be used as a paddling pool since 2015.
►GONE: The fairy tale fountain in Rabensteiner Straße. So broken in 1990 that it was dismantled. Six rescued ceramic figures are standing as plastic in front of the Bruno Bettelheim School.
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center
►OLD: The fountain in the colonnade courtyard of the Old National Gallery is from 1880.
►NEW: The fountain “Fontes e sequestros” was only inaugurated in 2015 in the inner courtyard of Linienstrasse 155.
►GONE: Octagonal fountain “Three Girls and a Boy” from 1988. Standing in front of the former Palace Hotel. The fountain was removed when the building was demolished. The bronze figures have been sitting on a Spree wall near Karl-Liebknecht-Straße since 2007.
Neukoelln
►OLD: The cascades, fountains and fountains in Körnerpark were opened in 1912.
►NEW: The basin with gargoyles in the Lilienthalstraße cemetery is from 1999.
►DISAPPEARING: none known
Pankow
►OLD: Since 1905 there has been a fountain with a bronze putti on the current site of the Helios Klinikum Buch.
►NEW: A flat water feature was opened in 2008 on Antonplatz.
►GONE: The fountain that previously stood on Antonplatz has been demolished.
Reinickendorf
►OLD: The jubilee fountain on the property of the Queen Luise Church is from 1925. The inscription is just as old: “In the forest and on the heath, there I seek my joy”.
►NEW: Granite fountain on Franz-Neumann-Platz, built in 1985.
►GONE: The Bear Fountain in front of the Buddha Temple.
Spandau
►OLD: The field stone fountain from the 14th century was rediscovered in 1981 in the inner courtyard of Breite Straße 35 and then renovated.
►NEW: The granite water gate was inaugurated in 2001 between the Spandau train station and the Spandauer Arcaden.
►GONE: The seal fountain in Siemensstadt. Inaugurated in 1932, ten years later the bronze seal was melted down.
Steglitz-Zehlendorf
►OLD: The fountain on the Pfaueninsel was still operated by a steam engine in 1824.
►NEW: The fountain in St. Mark’s Square. Built in 1995, commissioned in 2007.
►GONE: The fountain temple in the park cemetery of Lichterfelde only exists in a rudimentary form.
Tempelhof-Schoeneberg
►OLD: The deluge fountain, which was built for the Paris World Exhibition and has been on Perelsplatz since 1909, has existed since 1896.
►NEW: In 2007, the “fountains on the town square” were inaugurated on Richard-von-Weizsäcker-Platz.
►GONE: The large fountain in the former amusement park Flora, today’s Eosanderstrasse
Treptow-Köpenick
►OLD: The drip fountain with a lion’s head has been on Dörpfeldstrasse since 1912.
►NEW: The fountain in the Volkspark on Salvador-Allende-Strasse was only built in 2003.
►GONE: The cascades in the Ortolfstraße green area have been shut down and are to be rebuilt.
