Fountain sights in Nuremberg
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Hauptmarkt
This bustling square in the heart of the Altstadt is the site of daily markets as well as the famous Christkindlesmarkt. At the eastern end is the ornate Gothic Pfarrkirche Unsere Liebe Frau (1350-58), also known as simply the Frauenkirche. The work of Prague cathedral builder Peter Parler, it's the oldest Gothic hall church in Bavaria and stands on the ground of Nuremberg's first synagogue.
The western façade is beautifully ornamented and is where, every day at noon, crowds crane their necks to witness a spectacle called Männleinlaufen. It features seven figures, representing electoral princes, parading clockwise three times around Emperor Karl IV to chimed accompanime…
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Ehekarussell Brunnen
At the foot of the fortified Weisser Turm (White Tower; now the gateway to the U-Bahn station of the same name) stands the dramatic Ehekarussell Brunnen, a remarkable metallic fountain with six timeless interpretations of marriage based on a verse by medieval cobbler-poet Hans Sachs. Further east, another modern fountain, the Peter-Henlein-Brunnen on Hefnerplatz, is dedicated to the 16th-century tinkerer credited with making the first pocket watch.
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