The butcher's fountain is a memorial that commemorates the butchers' guild of Dohna. In 1462 this was given the important privilege to slaughter it in Dresden and thus supply Dresden with meat.

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Dohna - second oldest town in Saxony & gateway to the Eastern Ore Mountains. The old town with its market square still conveys peasant flair and offers a number of …

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The fountain, a work by Alexander Höfer, was inaugurated in 1912 and commemorates the importance of the butcher's trade in Dohna. As early as 1462, the Dohna butchers were given the right to slaughter by the elector to Dresden. Dohna developed into a butcher town. In 1831-1899, 44 Dohna butchers were slaughtered in the Dresden meat banks. In 1931 the last butchers sold in the Dresden market halls, after which the free meat market of the Dohna butchers was a thing of history.

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Location: Dohna, Saxon Switzerland-East Ore Mountains, Saxony, Germany

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