The rude fountains of Miltenberg

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In the town of Miltenberg, there is an old -- and very rude -- fountain, which I just had to take a look at. There is also a modern fountain that is possibly even ruder. This is a story of protests and insults, but not all of them are true.
Many thanks to the Miltenberg Tourist Information Office
www.miltenberg.info/
Chapters:
00:00 It started with a comment
00:28 Welcome to Miltenberg
00:52 Another rude fountain
01:28 Insults, and how to deal with them
02:26 A Renaissance fountain
03:16 An unpaid bill?
03:47 A dislike of politicians?
04:41 A local rivalry?
05:06 Merely... art?
05:36 Information for visitors
Music:
"On My Way Home"
by The 1260ers
RU-vid Audio Library
"Style Funk" and "Hot Swing"
by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com/
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@williamrees6662 Месяц назад

When I was a seminarian in the Catholic Church, I was sent to Rome to pursue my studies in theology and philosophy. Our church, St John of the Latin Gate, has a similar depiction of a very large horse's ar*e over the place in the sanctuary where the priest would have stood to say Mass in the days of the Tridentine Rite. He painted it there precisely because he hadn't been paid.

@eisikater1584 Месяц назад

3:16 I can't help but admire the way you put in translations of important German words and your respectfulness towards the differences between British and American English.

@MHParkison Месяц назад

Andrew, I always appreciate it when you get out and about (by public transport, no less!) in Franconia and Hesse. The research and attention you put into the work is evident in every one. Thanks and keep them coming!

@fmhummel Месяц назад

What a respectable tourist information office! Usually these places and tour guides are spreading these kinds of stories.

@stevebartley628 Месяц назад

I had to fix a broken bicycle spoke at that fountain

@___________________________._ Месяц назад

I am from there. Thank you for making a video about my small little Region. ☺️👍

@BlueWaterLady Месяц назад

I think you could do an entire series just on the fountains and statues in various towns throughout Germany. I have always found them very entertaining and some of them quite eye-opening. The 9 m tall statue at lake Constance also known as Bodensee is quite striking. I believe it is titled Imperia. In Karlsruhe there is an Indian head statue- Indianerbrunner in Werderplatz which also has an interesting history. I believe it is connected to wild Bill Cody and his wild West show performing somewhere in that area. I have bicycle throughout Germany and found statues and fountains quite entertaining.

@paolagrando5079 Месяц назад

Artists have been giving themselves a licence to add or change stuff that they wanted. I like it, it makes the pieces more interesting. Shame that we won't know the majority of them and their reasons.

@divaloulou Месяц назад

Thank you for this charming video! A special thanks for the note on accessibility. It warms my heart.

@LucaPasini2 Месяц назад

This story reminds me of the famous Rivers fountain located in the middle of Navona Square in Rome. It's said that one of the four portrayed men representing important rivers has a hand obstructing his field of view not to see the church in front of him. The reason would be that the fountain's author, Bernini, was a huge rival of the church's architect, Borromini. They were the two most important architects and sculptors in the whole of Europe at the time.

@ralfjansen9118 Месяц назад

Actually the fountain is older than the present church, so it is a nice story but factually impossible. The river deity represents the Nile river in Africa, and he covers his face because his origin was, then, unknown.

@Herzschreiber Месяц назад

You're getting closer and closer...... :) (I'm currently living in Klingenberg) Great video again!

@DoubleACbg Месяц назад

The stylized “M” on the plaque and in the coat-of-arms made me think of the “golden arcs” of McDowell’s, the McDonald’s takeoff featured in the film Coming To America, starring Eddie Murphy.

@MrGreatplum Месяц назад

This is fascinating, thank you for showing us this fountain and its story

@gscott5062 Месяц назад

Nice video! Speaking of the orientation of statues, I'm also reminded of the Cat House in Riga, Latvia.

@Inkyminkyzizwoz Месяц назад

The bit about the rivalry with that other village reminds me of how the clock tower on Chester Town Hall only has faces on three sides, with the fourth being the one that faces Wales

@michaelcolin9887 12 дней назад

The one thing you missed, is that "zum Riesen" in Miltenberg is the oldest still existing pub in Germany.

@jobossa7749 Месяц назад

much love from miltenberg

@ornleifs Месяц назад

Been there once and absolutely loved it. One of the most Getmütlich villages in Germany.

@book5ter Месяц назад

Hey Rewboss; i've seen a lot of posters for the "Junge Kunst für Hanau" project ("young art for Hanau" for the non-german speakers) in Berlin recently. So now i was wondering if we might get treated to a video regarding the subject. thanks, for yer work and greetings from Berlin

@stefan25769 Месяц назад

Jesus, these sex bots are a real plague

@rewboss Месяц назад

I'm currently getting five sex bot posts on every upload. I've just removed them on this upload, but they really are an absolute plague.

@JACK-DETH Месяц назад

@@rewboss one time i was livestreaming half the comment section was full of that garbage.

@HappyBeezerStudios Месяц назад

@@rewboss keep going, those bots are annoying. And threat them as a sign of success. Your channel is big enough that it caught their attention.

@gargoyle7863 17 дней назад

@@rewboss A plague, really? I think they are quite polite but could use a little tutoring how to dress properly.

@th60of Месяц назад

Expecting a snigger after "behind it". But of course, you're above that.🙂

@praveenb9048 Месяц назад

Much Pissing in the Well

@sdrtcacgnrjrc Месяц назад

So showing the bum was more offensive than showing the willie?

@petesmart1983 Месяц назад

In those days yes, even in ancient cultures but now it opposite

@paolagrando5079 Месяц назад

I think it was more about showing the back.

@abgekippt Месяц назад

Not the first arse video on this channel. This channel is still developing into an expert channel about arses 😉

@HalfEye79 Месяц назад

What I find fascinating is, that there is a german town, which isn't very big but is widely known in the world. Perhaps not because of the town, but because of its saga. Its sometimes is even seen as a fairy tale. Its the "Pied Piper of Hamlin". ("Rattenfänger von Hameln")

@marge2548 Месяц назад

Oh, it's quite beautiful, too. It's more representative of a bit more northern German architecture, but with a lot of timbered houses, too.

@arnomrnym6329 Месяц назад

😁👍🏾😎

@JACK-DETH Месяц назад

2:18 after you said let's give thanks for indoor plumbing. You reminded me of 2 facts about Russia #1 as of right now only 60% of the country actually has in door plumbing. Fact #2 Russia has less paved road then the US state of Virginia. Give thanks for indoor plumbing hell i think there should be national holiday celebrating this great achievement.

@drlobomalo Месяц назад

Don't tell Tucker Carlson! But the important fact that leads us to where we are today is that Russia had a large industrial base at the outset of WW2 that was built by Western (mostly US) capitalists. See The Soviet Economy and the Red Army, 1930-1945, by Walter S. Dunn Praeger 1995.

@alexanderklee6357 Месяц назад

@@drlobomalo Now i'm probably way to uneducated in this subject to make any remarks, but i found this quote by Mark Harrison from Warwick University which puts this part of the book in a bit more context: "[In the book] Soviet prewar technological achievements are attributed to the influence of foreign concessions in the 1920s and American technical assistance in the 1930s, as if history did not also show that it is societies which ignore others’ achievements or hold them in contempt or suspicion which fail technologically."

@drlobomalo Месяц назад

@@alexanderklee6357 Except the legend says the West (especially Western capitalists) was hostile to USSR and saw it as a threat. Of course Lenin allegedly said "the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

@embreis2257 Месяц назад

that's why almost all Red Army soldiers marching through Germany during the latter days of WW2 were surprised to see so many houses with indoor plumbing and paved roads etc - not just the soldiers coming from the far east of Russia. they were puzzled why people with this much wealth would bother to invade a place like Russia.

@JACK-DETH Месяц назад

@@drlobomalo True.

@baritonfelix Месяц назад

While the fountain may be in the precise spot where it was originally erected, I am sure it has been disassembled and restored more than once, maybe even taken to a safe place during the war. So I'm not entirely sure that the arse-angel is pointing where the artist intended.

@CharlyHubble Месяц назад

Warum? Ei nun, weil er es kann.

@MatthieuDeW Месяц назад

Rather than to break the monotony perhaps it was yet another example of historical trolling/memery? After all we have statues performing autofellatio, doodles portraying knights fighting snails and fencing manuals describing how to rightly end your opponent by unscrewing and tossing a pommel...

@HappyBeezerStudios Месяц назад

And don't get me on the amount of killer rabbits. People think it was a prude time. Far from it, they just were a bit more subtle about it.