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Sculpture

5 places in Cologne

Genoveva Fountain

since 1914
4.7(6)· Google

A fountain in a Mülheim green space crowned by a life-size sculpture of Saint Genevieve with a child and a stag — the namesake of a street, a grammar school and a swimming pool.

Hermann Joseph Fountain

since 1894
4.3(9)· Google

A richly figured 1894 fountain on Waidmarkt telling the legend of the "apple saint" Hermann Joseph — considered the high point of sculptor Wilhelm Albermann's work.

Mülheim Town Fountain

since 1884
4.7(21)· Google

A roughly ten-metre sandstone fountain from 1884 whose crowned patroness, the "Mülheimia", commemorates the devastating Rhine flood of 1784.

Schmitz Column

4.4(22)· Google

A sculpture in Cologne's Old Town in front of Great St. Martin Church that marks the city's 50-metre elevation point and playfully commemorates the Schmitz family and the Moon landing.

Water-Kinetic Sculpture

since 1977
4.1(161)· Google

A walk-in stainless steel fountain by Wolfgang Göddertz on Ebertplatz, nine metres tall and known locally as the "Nail Fountain".

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