Radschlägerbrunnen Düsseldorf
Bronze fountain of two cartwheeling boys honouring the old town's beloved acrobatic custom.
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This guide to the Radschlägerbrunnen on Düsseldorf's Burgplatz starts in October nineteen thirty-seven, at the city's first official cartwheeling contest, and asks a question the city has never answered: why do its children turn cartwheels at all? It ranges from a medieval battle to a noble wedding procession and the exhibition crowds of around nineteen hundred. Stand close to the two bronze boys so you can read the dialect line on the fountain.
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