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Stuttgart District

Milchling Fountain, Bad Mergentheim

Stuttgart District

Milchling Fountain, Bad Mergentheim

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Milchling Fountain, Bad Mergentheim

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Location: Bad Mergentheim, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Stuttgart District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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guude 🤘

February 12, 2023

Beautiful old town.
There's a lot to see.

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Nico

May 8, 2022

Beautiful old town with corresponding buildings… always a fine look into the past

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Rika123

June 18, 2022

... "Market place with "Milchlingsbrunnen", ... in Bad-Mergentheim, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg
- visit.bad-mergentheim.de/en/culture-castle-enjoyment/sightseeing

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🇺🇦Uwe 🏃‍♂️1098🏍

September 25, 2022

On the market square of Bad Mergentheim is the so-called Milchlingsbrunnen, a fountain with an octagonal, stone trough and a central fountain with four tubes. The fountain figure is traditionally held for Grand Master Wolfgang Schutzbar known as Milchling, but this has never been proven and is doubted; modern research does not start from an identity. Despite the prevailing misinterpretation, the fountain with its figure is a symbol of the city. According to legend, the fountain was built by the townsfolk in grateful acknowledgment of the man to whom they owe the first water pipe. The original fountain was completed by 1548 at the latest and stood outside the market axis in front of the southern corner building at Burgstrasse-Marktplatz 7. Today's fountain was provided with a restored figure and a new basin in 1926 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the healing springs and the recognition of the city as a spa in a different place. The fountain statue was restored in 2004. In any case, the shield on which the free-standing figure is supported bears the Grand Master's coat of arms of Wolfgang Schutzbar known as Milchling.
Source: welt-der-wappen.de/Heraldik/Galerien/galerie117.htm

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Lucas

March 21, 2022

Beautiful fountain in a beautiful city

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Veronika 2020

September 25, 2022

One of many great fountains in Bad Mergentheim

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Wein aus Nussdorf

August 28, 2023

Every well has its justification

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Andi

March 9, 2023

The Milchling fountain is located on the market square. The fountain is adorned with a statue of the Grand Master and German Master Wolfgang Schutzbar, known as Milchling, under whose aegis the first water supply from 1546 (!) and the Renaissance town hall from 1564 were built on the south side of the square.
Source: taubertal.de/staedteinfo/bad-mergentheim/-milchling-brunnen

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Kristian

October 5, 2023

The market fountain or Milchlingsbrunnen is located in the middle of the Bad Mergentheim market. The name Milchlingsbrunnen refers to the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Wolfgang Schutzbar (born 1483, died 1566), who was called Milchling.
At the top of the base there is a stone knight figure in armor, with a flag lance and the coat of arms of Grand Master Wolfgang Schutzbar.

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Uwe aus Lüstringen

June 22, 2024

Fountain named after Wolfgang Schutzbar called Milchling. His most important achievements are the construction of the town hall in 1562, which can still be admired today, and the first water pipe for Mergentheim.

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Location: Bad Mergentheim, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Stuttgart District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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