Aschrottbrunnen fountain

Until 1939, a monumental fountain with a twelve-metre-high sandstone obelisk stood in front of Kassel's town hall. It was donated by the Jewish entrepreneur Sigmund Aschrott in 1908. The anti-Semitic hatred of the National Socialists ultimately led to the destruction of the fountain. In 1987, Horst Hoheisel created a copy of the historical fountain sculpture as a hollow form, which was sunk into the ground like a funnel. The water plunges into the depths. What remains is a counter-monument, a reference to the "open wound" in the city's history.