Mermaid´s fountation (Fräuleinsbrunnen)
Mermaid´s fountation
Mermaid´s fountation, picture 2
Mermaid´s fountation, picture 3
Mermaid´s fountation, picture 4
Mermaid´s fountation, picture: Achim Mende
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in Bietigheim of 1557 in the tomorrow land.
From its trough, renewed in the last century, a column rises on a pedestal with 4 gargoyles. There is enthroned the name-giving "Miss" Melusine, a popular motive of the Renaissance.
Whether she stands as a symbol of life-giving water or is more closely related to the literary model of an old French legend, according to which the mermaid was the herald of every impending disaster, must remain undecided.