The Till Eulenspiegel Fountain.

 Today I found the Till Eulenspiegel Fountain, I'd set out once before to find him but got sidetracked.  Till is a character from German folklore, who was    supposedly born near Braunschweig in 1300.  He was a vagrant who travelled Germany and Low Countries playing mischievous tricks on the unsuspecting.  He was supposed to have played a trick here on a baker, in place of loaves, he baked owls and lemurs instead.  The baker threw Till out into the street, where he sold his wares at great profit.  He died near Luebeck of the Black Death in 1350

                    The fountain was cast in 1906 and financed by the Jewish Banker Meyersfeld.  Until 1944 it stood amidst old half timbered houses and was unscathed by the bombing of October 14th/15th  1944  when all around was demolished.  Till sits merrily on his plinth surrounded by owls and lemurs with water spouting  from  their mouths.  He is first mentioned in German books around 1500.

Richard Strauss wrote a tone poem in 1894, "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks."  Eulenspiegel translates as "Owlglass."  The picture below suggests that Till has a bit of a leak!