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Basilisk

sculpture at Wettsteinbrücke, Basel
Thing sculpture Q138501549

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
sculpture
Inception
1879[15]
Owned by
Basel (2008–present)[6]
Country
Switzerland[5]
Genre
Percent for Art[7]
Location
Wettsteinbrücke (1880–1936), Tierpark Lange Erlen (1936–1995), Wettsteinbrücke (1995–present)[10][11][12]
Part of
Wettsteinbrücke (1880–1936), Wettsteinbrücke (1995–present)[13][14]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 47.555°, 7.595°[16]
Creator
Ferdinand Schlöth, Hans Baur[2][3]
Depicts
basilisk, Fahne und Wappen des Kantons basel[8][9]
Height
3 m[22]
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02_v2
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Basel-Vorstaedte[4]
Located on street
Wettsteinbrücke[17]
Location of creation
Pforzheim, Basel[20][21]
Mass
5.5 tonne[23]
Significant event
change of ownership, gift[18][19]
🏷️ Also known as
de Basilisk
🔖 Identifiers · 2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
11-11-24-basel-by-ralfr-058.jpg ↗
OpenStreetMap way ID
6789138087 (2019–present)

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Summary

Basilisk is a sculpture[1].

Body

Use and Application

Part of include Wettsteinbrücke[13], a road bridge[24], in Switzerland[25].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . basilisk-basel.ch. Retrieved . basilisk-basel.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . basilisk-basel.ch. Retrieved . basilisk-basel.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . basilisk-basel.ch. Retrieved . basilisk-basel.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . basilisk-basel.ch. Retrieved . basilisk-basel.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . basilisk-basel.ch. Retrieved . basilisk-basel.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . basilisk-basel.ch. Retrieved . basilisk-basel.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . basilisk-basel.ch. Retrieved . basilisk-basel.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . basilisk-basel.ch. Retrieved . basilisk-basel.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved . badische-zeitung.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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