Year of construction:
1888
Design:
Friedrich Wanderer
Implementation:
unknown
Location:
Depiction:
On the sloping sides of the fountain, the dragon is on the right and the devil with the schoolboy is on the left.
The Teufelsbrünnlein is made of sandstone, the square fountain basin has a swivel spout and is surrounded by a protective grille.
On the back wall of the fountain basin, directly adjacent to the church wall, there is a relief with the coat of arms of the city of Nuremberg and the gridiron of St. Lawrence.
The relief transitions into a neo-Gothic round pillar, which ends in a pinnacle.
History:
The Nuremberg legend of the devil and the marble boy is the literary basis for the Devil's Well:
After the priest in St. Lorenz had spoken out against swearing, two choirboys were playing with marbles near St. Lorenz Church.
In the course of the game, they got into an argument about the game. When one of the boys was accused of cheating, he exclaimed: "May the devil take me, I'm right!" But he was lying and had actually cheated.
As he spoke these words, the devil flew over and wrung the boy's neck. He then grabbed the dead choirboy and flew away with him.
The boy's cap fell off and got caught on the lightning rod of the choir loft of St. Lawrence's Church, which was then named "Lausbubenkäpple" (rascal's cap).
Reference:
Emmi Bock: Nürnberger Stadtsagen, 2002
Günther P. Fehring, Anton Ress: Die Stadt Nürnberg. 2. Auflage bearbeitet von Wilhelm Schwemmer. Deutscher Kunstverlag, München 1982, S. 262.