Germany on postcards
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Leaving my hotel on the edge of the old town the first monument I came across was the Hotmannspief on the on the corner of Sandkaulstraße / Alexanderstraße.
There has been a well here for the city since 1334 and they added a catch basin in the early 1600, but it wasn’t until 1830 that the fountain took on the shape of its current form.
The design by Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel incorporates four virgins, one on each face of the obelisk each with two water jugs pouring into shells that disburse into pipe that feed the lion heads that adorn each of the lower basins below.
This fountain marks the furthest point out of the old city and a good marker for finding your way into it, if for some reason you cannot follow the steeples.
I took this with my D750 and Tamron SP 24-70mm 2.8 G2 Lens at 70mm 1/25, f/11 ISO 100 processed in LR, Topaz Denoise, PS (Lumenzia curves masks and DXO Nik Color Efex)
Disclaimer: Not trying to be realistic in my editing there is enough realism in the world, my style is a mix of painterly and romanticism as well as a work in progress.