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Memorial Fountain at Elster Castle

Memorial Fountain at Elster Castle

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Memorial Fountain at Elster Castle

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Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft

Location: Elsterwerda, Elbe-Elster, Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany

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thomas.nbg_goho

January 6, 2020

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Memorial fountain in honor of the seminarians who died in the First World War.

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December 29, 2025

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The "Seminar Fountain" was called "God's Little Memorial Fountain" before its renovation on October 22, 1922. It honors the seminarians who fell in the First World War and serves as a daily reminder of this horrific period and its many victims for students of the Elsterschloss Gymnasium and other passersby. Of the 143 seminarians in the First World War, 43 died in the war.

elsterschloss-gymnasium.de/77-news/1225-das-seminarbruennlein-ein-zeichen-der-wertschaetzung-und-ehrerbietung

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Beyond the Horizon

July 14, 2025

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It's a quiet place, almost overlooked between the schoolyard and the palace garden, yet it bears a weight that cannot be measured – only sensed. The memorial fountain at Elster …

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Elevation 90 m

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Location: Elsterwerda, Elbe-Elster, Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany

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