20-Pipe Well

The 20- tube fountain is a fountain in the Rhineland-Palatinate local church Altleiningen in the northeastern Palatinate Forest. The fountain was probably built around 1600 and originally served the water supply of the higher-lying castle Altleiningen. He received his present form in 1855.

Geography

Near the fountain of Corner Brook, the actual source of his four km upstream and is a left tributary of the Rhine flows. It absorbs the water that drains the 20 - tube fountain that today provides most of the water flowing down the creek. On passing the fountain of the 23 -kilometer Corner Brook mill trail, the creek downhill to Dirmstein leads from the Eckbachquelle in Hertlingshausen in the Rhine valley leads.

Plant

The fountain is fed by the strongest column source of the Palatinate. The water emerges from a fault fissure and is first captured in two large fountains chambers, and then to well from 20 arranged in parallel tubes. The amount of water flow is controlled by a very well thought out for the development of time system of the impoundment of the groundwater.

Above the fountain a listed inscription panel made ​​of sandstone dating back to 1855, when the plant got its present shape; It was built after a thorough renovation, with partial redesign in the 1980s again. The table gives an imaginary dialogue between Wanderer ( W) and wells (B ) again:

See, hikers: River of God has many waters! W.: Yes, brook, you have the water filling; Give each drink who wants there. B.: The rich God has given it to me; Mach me just so you will live! W.: What then remains but to me recently? Example: A water forever delight you.

History

The fountain was created by order of the Earl Leininger, to improve the water supply of their ancestral castle Altleiningen and ensure long term. Evidence of the exact year of construction is not known, historians believe the time around 1600.