Neptunbrunnen
Baroque bronze fountain of Neptune with nymphs on winged horses, a cast of a tsar's palace original.
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This guide to the Neptune Fountain in Nuremberg's Stadtpark starts in the years after the Thirty Years' War, when a war-poor city ordered a bronze sea god for its market square from the sculptor Georg Schweigger and the goldsmith Christoph Ritter. It follows the figures from a storeroom to a Russian tsar's summer palace, and to the merchant Ludwig Gerngros, who paid for a second casting on one condition. Stand at the rim of the basin facing Neptune while you listen.
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