Name: Pig Dealer Fountain at Wätteplatz Günzburg
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August 11, 2023

Bronze sculpture with fountain ⛲ - pig dealer - Wätteplatz - old town - Günzburg - LKR. Guenzburg

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This fountain on the Watteplatz was in 1990 by the city. Economic Association and Raiffeisenbank established.

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Since 1990, dear leader, at the Wätteplatz dean Brunna geit, dau riesalat and water well, send Suckla with ma dealer dra, he invites you, dau to stay, dia stenkat nemme heit, dia Säula!!!

George Egger

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July 16, 2025

The first water supply for the upper town was once the Stadtbach, an open watercourse comparable to the so-called "Bächle" (small streams) that still flow through Freiburg/Breisgau today. As homeowners gradually dug their own wells or drew water from the tubular wells on the market square, the stream was dammed here to form a small pond for washing horses (horse wash). Because the water was so shallow that one could wade in it, the square was soon called the "Wätte" (water meadow). However, the whole place didn't smell very pleasant, which is why the city physician managed to have the Wätte filled in in 1792. Instead, the piglet market was held here on Tuesdays until the 1960s (!). This was remembered again when the square was redesigned (1990), and a design competition resulted in the bronze pig dealer ("Saubarthel"). Source: pages.et4.de/de/guenzburg/streaming/detail/POI/p_100047489/waetteplatz-17

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