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[15] Hermann Hesse Platz mit Hermann Hesse Brunnen

Description

The fountain on the small square was renamed the "Hermann Hesse Fountain" in 1920 by a decision of the local council, but was later moved to the vicinity of the Brühl and put back in its old location during the town´s redevelopment in the 1970s. On Hesse´s 70th birthday in 1947, the square itself was also named after the 1946 Nobel Prize winner. He donated part of the prize money from the Nobel Prize to the town of Calw for the care of the poor and schools.
 

Until the 1970s, traffic still travelled up to the market square via Nikolausbrücke and Hermann-Hesse-Platz.