Wilhelmina Fountain

On the Brink in Deventer stands a Wilhelmina fountain. The monument was unveiled in 1898 on the occasion of the inauguration of Queen Wilhelmina. The monument was designed by the city architect of Deventer, J.A. Mulock Houwer. The construction of this fountain had already been planned in 1893, although not as a Wilhelmina monument, when the Deventer water supply was completed. Lack of funds at that time forced them to abandon the construction. In 1898, the opportunity arose to place a fountain after all. The monument - the cast iron parts of which were cast at Nering Bögel - straddles these two ideas. Contrary to what the inscription on the pedestal suggests, the monument contains no further references to the queen. On the pedestal stands the City Virgin of Deventer, made by Wilhelmus Gerhardus van Poorten. She is adorned with a laurel leaf and a shield bearing the city coat of arms.

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