Google translation : The chair man fountain in the Altona district of Hamburg is an imposing , consisting of several figures with fountain water feature. It was inaugurated at Pentecost in 1900. Today, the chair man fountain is on the Republic Square , a central green area between the town hall , museum and train station Altona . Founder and namesake is Günther Ludwig Stuhlmann ( 1797-1872 ) . This was a founder and director of Altona gas around water Institution AG, he bequeathed to the city testament including a fountain. By shifting the Altona train station to the north was built , 25 years after the chair 's death , the Emperor place a representative location for the well. The Germany -wide competition competition for a monumental , artistic standard fountain won the Berlin sculptor Paul Türpe (1859-1944) with the model of \ In 1897, the Berlin coppersmith Otto Bommer made by Türpes model and under the authority of the sculptures for the fountain. Technically, it is at the figures to a hollow structure made of 2 mm thick copper plate with welded seams on an iron stand; On a small rock , a seven and a half meter high statue group collects, in the two centaurs around a giant fish wrestle which between them upward protruding . On pedestals on the pool deck much smaller Triton , Nereid and lizards surround the combatants and spew powerful water jets . From the mouth of the fish fought the main fountain of the fountain rises several meters upwards.
