Elisabethen Fontain..Bad Homburg Germany
The Elisabethen is one of the most famous fountains in the spa town of Bad Homburg in front of the height.
He summarizes a source that was rediscovered in 1834 by the physician Eduard Christian Trapp as a healing spring. Already Isaac of Sinclair mentioned the source in a 1799 published work on salt production in Homburg.
The interest in medically usable sources was awakened at the latest after the development of the Ludwigsbrunnen in 1809 in Homburg. Trapp took the source and persuaded Landgrave Ludwig to commission an analysis of the water by Justus von Liebig. The report cost 400 guilders and resulted in pleasing:
"It would probably be difficult in Germany to find a mineral water which would offer the same wealth of effective ingredients with the Homburg mineral water."
- Report from Justus von Liebig
Source and fountain are named after Princess Elisabeth, the wife of Landgrave Friedrich VI. of Hesse-Homburg and daughter of the British King George III.
The well has been redesigned several times. His present form with round temple and marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Hygieia he received in 1918 under Emperor Wilhelm II by the sculptor Hans Dammann.
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