Gefion Fountain

The gefion Fountain (Danish Gefionspringvandet ) is a large fountain on the harbor of Copenhagen. It is the largest monument in Copenhagen and used as a wishing well.

It shows the mythological gefion that out plowing with their transformed to bulls sons, the island of Zealand from Sweden. The fountain is located at Nordre Toldbod near the castle of Copenhagen and the long line.

The fountain was built in 1908 by the Danish sculptor Anders Bundgaard ( 1864-1937 ) created and inaugurated on 14 July 1908. On the 50th anniversary of the Carlsberg brewery, donated in 1897 the City of Copenhagen, the Carlsberg Foundation, a larger sum of money, of which the fountain was built and commissioned the sculptor Anders Bundgaard and was paid. The group of figures fountain provides gefion that Asenjungfrau from Germanic mythology is: gefion that with a plow and oxen pulls her a furrow between Sweden and Zealand and thus Zealand separated from the mainland.

In August 1999, the daily water output of the fountain has been set by order of the municipality of Copenhagen on daily 15-50 m³. Between April 2003 and August 2004, the fountain was extensively renovated and thereby eliminates an existing leak in the fountain. The fountain was additionally equipped with an SMS service to the error message. On 7 September 2004, the fountain was officially opened to the public by the Danish politician and former Senior Planning Officer Søren Pind Copenhagen again.