Fietje Balge is a bronze monument in Bremen-Mitte in the street Hinter dem Schütting, near the Bremen market square and Böttcherstraße.
It was erected in 2007 and is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.
The sculptor Bernd Altenstein made the sculpture in 2007 on behalf of the Carl F. Plump bank located there.
The monument near the Spitzen Gebel building commemorates - as can be read on a plaque - "the formerly busy activity on Bremen's oldest harbor waters".
Fietje (Low German for Friedrich), a Bremen Butjer (child), fishes in the Balge and is thus a symbol of a river that fed the city in many ways.
The Balge or Große Balge was a short, right-hand branch of the Weser.
It was formerly also called Balje and has existed since the early Middle Ages.
It served boat traffic and as a pier until 1602, then became silted up and was filled in in 1838.
The sculptor Altenstein is also responsible for the monuments The End in the Bremen ramparts, Waller Conversations on Wartburgplatz in Walle, Four Seasons in the Bürgerpark, the fountain sculpture in Reeder-Bischoff-Straße and Our Planet on the Domshof.
(Source: Wikipedia)