Kriegerbrunnen
Kriegerbrunnen stands at Rübenmarkt in Nördlingen, beside St. Georg’s Church, as a Jugendstil fountain. An octagonal basin supports a three-part fountain stock with bronze figures and inscription panels. Romanesque Jugendstil forms shape the structure, while an eagle crowns its uppermost section. Water-spouting busts of Rieser farmers add local faces around the stonework.
Munich sculptor Georg Wrba created the fountain, which Nördlingen inaugurated on 7 September 1902. That date places its memorial within the town’s remembrance of the Franco-Prussian War. It replaced the Judenbrunnen, a former water source significant to Nördlingen’s water supply since 1480. Battle scenes and figures such as Helmuth von Moltke and Otto von Bismarck extend the commemoration.
The monument also marks the founding of the German Empire in 1871 through its inscriptions and imagery. Fallen soldiers remain central to the memorial’s purpose, alongside the war’s battles and leaders. The protected monument brings together bronze figures, flowing water, and imperial history beside the church.
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