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Buttermarkt Women's Fountain

Buttermarkt Women's Fountain

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Buttermarkt Women's Fountain

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Naturpark Rhein-Westerwald

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Location: Linz am Rhein, Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Claudia🚶🏼‍♀️

May 26, 2022

On the butter market, at the intersection of Am Halborn, Hundelsgasse, Mittel-, Brüder- and Klosterstraße, market women from the area offered butter, cheese and eggs for centuries. Regardless of whether it was summer or winter, they walked up to 20 km. The fountain erected in 1986 in the center of the square with figures of the butter market woman Agnes by the sculptor Josef Kaspers is reminiscent of these rural women from the Westerwald. At the fountain, benches invite you to linger in the shade of the linden trees. Until 1853, the Mühlenbach flowed openly across the square, the earlier course is symbolized today by white cobblestones. This square is framed by many colorful half-timbered houses with decorative shapes such as the "Wilder Mann", the "Andreaskreuz" or guild signs such as Gerber or Zimmermann.

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

September 6, 2022

buttermarkt-linz.homepage.eu
"...Whether as a destination, as a recreational island, as a shopping paradise, as a gourmet experience or just to visit our butter market lady Agnes.
Or hike along the Rheinsteig, which leads right through the middle of the butter market.
The butter market in Linz is always worth a visit.
From the middle of the 17th century until the 1930s of the 20th century, rural women from the Westerwald sold butter, cheese and eggs at the butter market. Near the current well there was a small half-timbered house in which the butter scale was located.
Until the middle of the 19th century, the butter market was divided into two parts by the Mühlenbach, which flowed openly where the white paving stones mark the course today.
In the 1980s, the butter market became car-free and a monument was erected to the rural women. Our butter market woman Agnes.
Most of the half-timbered houses on the Buttermarkt were built in the second half of the 17th century, plastered from the second half of the 19th century and exposed again after 1945. They are under monument protection. The most important half-timbered ensembles in the city can also be found at the Buttermarkt. The most historically impressive house is house number 4. The house has a fully formed gable facing the Buttermarkt and the Brüderstraße. Its creation is estimated 16th century. Many half-timbered houses in Linz have mottoes on their facades. The comments under the pictures provide information about history, stories and sayings.
In the 1950s, the butter market got a post box, which is still there today. Of course now in a modern version.
A small stream bubbles around the fountain and around the butter market woman Agnes. You can relax on benches under two lime trees. ..."

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Marliese

October 11, 2021

From 1642 until the 1930s, rural women sold eggs, butter, and cheese at the Buttermarkt.

One of the inscriptions on the half-timbered houses poses a mystery. "Situs vilate in ise te vernit" has caused many a Latin speaker to despair.

The answer: Sit us vi latein is et ever nit. Or: It looks like Latin, but it isn't. It's actually Cologne dialect, or kitchen Latin.

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Buttermarkt Women's Fountain

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