Thirst Fountain

The Thirst Fountain provides a very distinctive accent to the Jubilee Park. It was created by the sculptor, Hans Dammann, who had entered it in a major art exhibition in his hometown of Berlin in 1910. The district administrator of Bad Homburg, Helmut von Brüning, was so taken with the work of art that he purchased it in 1914 in order to make it a part of the newly created Jubilee Park. Naturally, Kaiser Wilhelm II had to first give his consent. The latter was so taken with the Thirst Fountain that he offered Dammann a professorship. During the Second World War, the two bronze panthers were melted down for their metal. At the end of the 1970s, the Frankfurt sculptor Ramon Batholomä redesigned them true to the original.