Jug Woman Fountain
Statue, monument, memorial plaque
The city has had a drinking fountain on Franciscan Square in Bratislava for centuries. The current fountain was built in 1804 on the site of an earlier fountain decorated with a high-quality stone carving - a lion, which can now be seen in part in front of the Old Market Square. The central element of the fountain, created by the Feigler sculptor family, is a female figure (in some descriptions: Nympha) standing on top of a column, wearing antique clothing and a Greek (?) helmet on her head, who, kneeling on one knee, pours water from her jug. The statue's column-shaped pedestal features a plastic carving of the Habsburg imperial coat of arms. The fountain's polygonal water basin is made of red marble slabs. ; Sensing its "outdated" nature, the composition was dismantled in the 1880s and erected in the courtyard of the nearby Old Town Hall. In 1998, after a historic renovation, the well was reconstructed in its original location and rebuilt from its old and restored parts.