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Transylvania / Romania

Fountain in Main Square

Fountain in Main Square
Timisoara, Piata Unirii, fantana
Turbojet, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
fountain
Current function:
fountain
Settlement:
Temesvár, Timișoara
Address:
Piața Unirii
Historical Hungarian county:
Temes
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.7579077693, 21.2294692227
Google map:
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History

As the town is located in a marshy area, the provision of drinking water has been one of the biggest challenges for the town administration. Deep wells were considered to prevent the plague epidemic that was already decimating the population by providing clean drinking water. The contract for drilling the well here was awarded to industrialist Seidl Gyula, who owned a machine factory and also specialised in drilling wells. His men dug a 406 m deep well in 1890. At first it was an artesian well. The area around the well has changed several times.

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