the Dragon Fountain returns to Rådhuspladsen
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This morning coffee and cakes were served to celebrate the return of the Dragon Fountain to Rådhuspladsen - the square in front of the city hall in Copenhagen.
The fountain, designed by PC Skovgaard and Thorvald Bindesbøll, was installed in the square in 1923, but it was then closer to the city hall and off to the west side. At the beginning of November in 2020, it was dismantled and taken to workshops to be restored.
It has now been returned to the square but to a new position, on the central axis of the city hall, and a large, granite basin - that had originally surrounded the fountain but had been removed 69 years ago - has been reinstated.
The bronze bull fighting with a dragon and the lower bronze basin with three dragons or mythical creatures are 6 metres high overall and together they weigh about 4.5 tons and the granite basin is 14 metres across so this is a substantial work.
Below the paving of the square, there is a large pump house where the water - approximately 42,000 litres for the 19 jets of the fountain - is filtered and treated to prevent the growth of algae.
