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Minna on the Postplatz fountain

Thick ropes were fixed to the new “Muschelminna” (Minna with a shell) in 1992 when she was lifted into position to complete the artistic fountain in the middle of Postplatz – many years after it was first set up in 1887. In 1942 the naked beauty was melted down to provide metal for the arms industry. Today the bronze figure of Flora, the Roman deity of nature, again raises her large shell from which the water flows into the basin.
Two mal and two female allegorical figures at the corners of the fountain represent according to their creator Toberentz “romance, utility, change and strength”.