Schöner Brunnen
Gothic spire fountain with forty painted figures and a wrought-iron grille holding a wishing ring.
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This guide to the Schöner Brunnen on Nuremberg's Hauptmarkt starts with a small brass ring caught in the fountain's sixteenth-century iron grille, and the wish people make when they spin it. It follows Paulus Kuhn, the Augsburg locksmith who forged the grille, and a legend about his workshop, his apprentice and his daughter Margret. Along the way you'll hear why the forty painted figures towering above you are not quite what they seem. Stand right at the grille, within reach of the ring.
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