Beim Bade, Bremen

The Badestubenbrunnen with the sculpture Beim Bade, also called Die fröhlichen Badenden, is located in Bremen-Mitte in the Schnoor, on the Stavendamm near the Schifferhaus. It is listed in the list of fountains of the city of Bremen.

The cheerful bronze couple on a granite base from 1986 came from the sculptor Jürgen Cominotto. The donor was the Schnoor association Heini Holtenbeen. The fountain is to remind of the time when there were bathhouses in the Schnoor. In the Middle Ages, people liked to bathe. Bathrooms did not yet exist and therefore they visited the public bathhouses. In the street Stavendamm is said to have stood a bathhouse.

The sculpture was stolen by metal thieves on December 27/28, 2007. On May 19, 2008, an approximately ten-year-old cast of the fountain was mounted on the pedestal. The cast, which had previously stood in the park of an Oldenburg retirement home, was purchased and donated by 40 individuals, three companies and the Stiftung Wohnliche Stadt for about 10,000 euros.

Cominotto's bronze sculpture Ottilie Hoffmann at Ostertorsteinweg/corner of Wulwesstraße and a sandstone sculpture in Gerhard-Rohlfs-Straße in Vegesack are still standing in Bremen.