Illmensee Bell Monument

Monument to commemorate the "bell story":
The legend of the bell is retold below:During the Thirty Years' War, the Swedes took Illmensee. The locals were very clever and brought their treasures, especially the bell, to safety by taking it from the tower at midnight and sinking it in Illmensee.After a few years of siege, when the Swedes withdrew, the people of Illmensee happily searched for the bell in the lake with poles and from boats, but they did not find it.The club legend of the local fools' club "Wasserspucker" is also based on the story of the bell. Spitting fish mock the "cleverness" of the people of Illmensee, who had hidden the bell so well that they could no longer find it themselves. This is how the fool figure of the mocking/spitting carp, the water spitter, came about. Another figure of the fools' guild is the "sea devil". He still guards the bell in the lake to this day, so that every search for the bell has been fruitless to this day. It is said that on full moon nights at midnight you can hear a dull ringing of bells, because the anglerfish then rings the bell.
Source: echt-bodensee.de/attraktion/illmenseer-glocke-79bc7287c0