Tugendbrunnen
Late Renaissance bronze fountain of seven virtues, with Justice crowning water-spouting figures.
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This guide to the Tugendbrunnen, the Fountain of the Virtues on Nuremberg's Lorenzer Platz, starts with a sound and a bronze-caster's signature from the late sixteenth century. It asks why a devout Protestant city let water spray from bronze bodies beside its great church, and what Christians of that age believed about holy fluids. You'll also meet the virtues by the objects they carry, and the waterworks that once filled the neighbourhood's buckets. Stand on the side facing St. Lorenz, where the whole ring of figures is in view.
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