The Lederstrumpfbrunnen (literally: ''leatherstocking fountain'') is a fountain in the German city of

Edenkoben Edenkoben () is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It lies approximately halfway between Landau and Neustadt an der Weinstraße. Edenkoben is one of the towns situated along the German Wine R ...

. It commemorates the frontiersman

Johann Adam Hartmann Johann Adam Hartmann (1748-1836) was a German born trapper and frontiersman in New York State. Some consider him as a possible inspiration for Natty Bumpo, the main character in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. Hartmann was born in ...

(1748-1836), who was born in this city and considered by some as a possible inspiration for the character

Natty Bumppo Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo is a fictional character and the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of novels known as the '' Leatherstocking Tales''. Fictional biography Natty Bumppo, the child of white parents, grew up among Delaware ...

of the

Leatherstocking Tales The ''Leatherstocking Tales'' is a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, set in the eighteenth-century era of development in the primarily former Iroquois areas in central New York. Each novel features Natty Bumppo, ...

novels by the American writer

James Fenimore Cooper James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonist and Indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought h ...

.Gisela Atteln, Helmuth Bischoff: ''DuMont Reise-Taschenbuch Reiseführer Rhein-Neckar''. DuMont, 2010, p.
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(German) The three main sculptures around the fountain are Hartman/Bumppo depicted as a hunter with a rifle and accompanied by a dog, the Indian chief

Chingachgook Chingachgook is a fictional character in four of James Fenimore Cooper's five '' Leatherstocking Tales'', including his 1826 novel ''The Last of the Mohicans''. Chingachgook was a lone Mohican chief and companion of the series' hero, Natty Bumppo. ...

(another famous character from the novels) and the artist

Max Slevogt Max Slevogt (8 October 1868 – 20 September 1932) was a German Impressionist painter and illustrator, best known for his landscapes. He was, together with Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann, one of the foremost representatives in Germany of th ...

(1868-1932), who created some of the best known illustrations for the German editions of the novels.Stephanie Jacobs: ''Wider den 'Unrat der Gründerjahre'. Paul Cassirer und die Pan-Presse''. In: Rahel E. Feilchenfeldt-Steiner (ed.), Thomas Raff (ed.): ''Ein Fest der Künste: Paul Cassirer : der Kunsthändler als Verleger''. C. H. Beck, 2006, p
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(German) The fountain was designed between 1987 and 1990 by the German sculptor

Gernot Rumpf Gernot Rumpf (born 1941) is a German sculptor known for his fountains and other bronze sculptures, with the Palatinate and biblical motifs. These can be seen not only in German cities, but also in Jerusalem and Tokyo. A part of his work came u ...

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