A pool of crystal clear spring water, a column decorated with exquisite sculptures, is a long memorial, such a scene is everywhere in the old Bern city, or stands in the center of the small square, or the tree in the center of the main road, forming a unique beautiful scenery. Among the many fountains, the most exquisite and complicated is the Shitong Fountain. The fountain built in 1545-1546 is erected in front of the granary square on the north side of the bell tower. It is said that because children often stumbled and fell into the nearby deep ditch a long time ago, a striking fountain was built to warn bear children to be cautious. At the top of the fountain column, a sitting ogre is devouring children, and many innocent children are scattered around the ogre's surroundings and feet, in a realistic form and very scared to think about it. At the bottom of the column, there is a circle of well-behaved bears symbolized by Bern. Finding the 11 children in the sculpture is a task of examining eyesight.
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A pool of crystal clear spring water, a column decorated with exquisite sculptures, is a long memorial, such a scene is everywhere in the old Bern city, or stands in the center of the small square, or the tree in the center of the main road, forming a unique beautiful scenery. Among the many fountains, the most exquisite and complicated is the Shitong Fountain. The fountain built in 1545-1546 is erected in front of the granary square on the north side of the bell tower. It is said that because children often stumbled and fell into the nearby deep ditch a long time ago, a striking fountain was built to warn bear children to be cautious. At the top of the fountain column, a sitting ogre is devouring children, and many innocent children are scattered around the ogre's surroundings and feet, in a realistic form and very scared to think about it. At the bottom of the column, there is a circle of well-behaved bears symbolized by Bern. Finding the 11 children in the sculpture is a task of examining eyesight.
Personally, I am neither concerned nor sad about the theme of this fountain, but I see it as a fairy tale portrayal. We have all read stories of evil witches eating children, or evil wolves, giants, etc. This fountain is more like a fairy tale if you will. I found it interesting and was glad I had read it before we went to Bern to put it on the must-see website list.
The shape of the food fountain is scary, in fact, it is not really a fountain to eat people, but because the fountain often happened to children to play and drown, so someone designed this shape to scare children, saying that there are monsters to eat people, let children away.
When you pass through the Bern Bell Tower, you can see the Fountain of the Eater, the figure above is legendary Jewish, because in the Middle Ages, Jews in Europe eat children. But the shape of the fountain is very gorgeous, at first glance it looks very good, not scary. But after watching the characters carving carefully, you will feel how horrible the demons are.
The Fountain of the Eating Child is a 16th century fountain in the Granary Square in the old city of Bern, Switzerland. The fountain sculpture shows a sitting ogre eating a naked child. Place a bag beside him with more children inside. There happened to be a little girl in the tourist who seemed to hear Dad tell this horror story, so scared that he buried himself in his father's arms.
Take the bus back to the train station and walk to the old town. In fact, it is a street to the end. . . It takes only 20 minutes from the west to the east. Then you can see the Bell Tower, the ogre fountain, and the former residence of Einstein. It is difficult to imagine that this place is the capital of Switzerland from the 18th century. The reputation is low-key and the architecture is low-key. . . Crossing the old town, the hillside is rosegarden, overlooking the whole city of Bern, the scenery is very good.