Фонтан Краннера Cranner Fountain

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The Kranner Fountain is located in a small park on the Smetana embankment. This is a 22-meter monument to Emperor Francis I (1768-1835) combined with a fountain. At the time of its creation, the tallest monument in Prague. The author of the fountain is the architect Josef Ondrej Kranner (1801-1871). The prototype was the Beautiful Well (Schner Brunnen) in Nuremberg, Germany. Sculptors Josef Max and Josef Camille Bohm took part in the sculptural decoration, the masonry was made by the stonemason Karel Svoboda.

The first stone was solemnly laid on August 22.1845. However, due to changes in the political situation, the statue of the emperor was installed only on May 30.1850 and in complete silence. In 1919 the statue was removed and placed in the Lapidarium of the National Museum. After a complete reconstruction of the fountain on August 29.2003, a copy of the original equestrian statue was installed on it.
The neo-Gothic monument in the form of a tower with a fountain consists of a central cascading polygon (cross-shaped plan) with columns of allegorical figures 170 cm high from 16 Czech regions, led by the seventeenth figure - the allegory of Prague. Some allegorical figures symbolize: peace, prosperity, science, art, industry, trade, plowing and mining. The Czech and Luxembourg lions, the Moravian and Austrian eagles were located in the four triangular pediments.