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Schwarzer Brunnen Fountain
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Michael Sz.
December 27, 2022
Hiking
In memory of 70 people who died in an explosion of a powder wagon used by Napoleon's French army
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January 24, 2023
Hiking
In late summer 1810, French military convoys passed through the town of Eisenach every five to seven days. Their mission was to deliver gunpowder and ammunition to the French occupation …
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Thomas 🖤💚
March 3, 2024
Hiking
It commemorates a catastrophe that happened at this point in Eisenach, when a French ammunition transport exploded for unknown reasons on the way back to France on the evening of September 1st, 1810. The explosion killed 62 people and caused 9 houses to collapse and 24 houses to burn. The city built this iron fountain with black balls in the middle and black hemispheres on the water reservoirs in 1817, which was renovated in 1910.
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