Schwarzmurer Fountain
In the 16th century there was already a fountain on the spot where the Schwarzmurer fountain now stands. In 1548 a contract was signed in Lucerne for the erection of the fountain we see today, and in 1549 the Lucerne master Jörg Schlosser built it and laid the pipes.
This octagonal stone fountain was also known as the Kronen (crown) or the Hirschen (stag) fountain. The water flows out of three pipes, jutting out from renaissance masks. Above the inscription 1549, a bearded standard-bearer, his right hand resting on the Zug coat-of-arms, stands on a pillar adorned with thick acanthus leaves and topped with a renaissance capital. It seems that there was a figure on the fountain right from the beginning or at least a short time after its erection, and in 1688 a council decision decreed that the figure be given a beard. In 1700/1701 a stonemason from Canton Aargau renovated the trough using local limestone. In the 19th century the blue and white Zug shield was painted over with a stag's head, the crest of the Schwarzmurers, but during the restoration of the fountain in 1987 the shield was given back its original colouring.