St George Fountain
Market-square fountain crowned by Saint George and the dragon, set over the town's largest well.
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This guide to St George Fountain, the Georgsbrunnen on the market square of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, starts with the sound of its water and the deep well beneath it. It looks at the neighbours the fountain was given in the early sixteen hundreds: a mayor's house where an emperor once stayed, the old meat house, and the lane where the wealthy families lived. Best heard standing at the basin rim, facing the pharmacy.
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