04-04-2012
Lessons in cartwheeling
Author: Shireen Shurmer
Most drupa-goers will walk on past the Radschläger-Brunnen (Cartwheelers’ Fountain) in Düsseldorf’s Burgplatz without throwing it a second glance. What they are missing is a 700-year old symbol of the city. Legend has it that, after the Battle of Worringen in 1288, when Graf Adolf beat the forces of the Archbishop of Cologne and secured a town charter for Düsseldorf, the town’s children celebrated by turning cartwheels.