Herkulesbrunnen, Heidelberg - Johann Martin Laub (1706)

The Herkulesbrunnen stands in the center of the Marktplatz, a stone fountain defined by a single vertical column topped with a statue of the mythological hero Hercules. Completed between seventeen oh five and seventeen oh six, the fountain was commissioned by the city during a period when the local population had dwindled to roughly one hundred and fifty people following the devastation of the War of the Palatinate Succession.