Brothers Grimm Memorial, Bronze memorial statue in Hanau, Germany.

The Brothers Grimm Memorial is a bronze sculpture in Hanau that portrays both brothers - Jacob standing and Wilhelm sitting. The roughly seven-meter-tall monument stands in front of the Neustadter Rathaus on the city's marketplace.

Calls for a monument began in 1853, while the brothers were still alive, and a committee was founded in Hanau on 21 January 1884 after teacher Georg Wolff took up the cause. Hanau prevailed over Kassel, Göttingen and Berlin as the site. A competition among eleven sculptors in 1888–89 ended in dispute; on Herman Grimm's advice the commission went to Syrius Eberle, and the double statue was unveiled on 18 October 1896.

The monument stands on Neustädter Marktplatz, where the city of Hanau presents itself as the birthplace of the Brothers Grimm. A local legend holds that the two figures swap their positions at midnight, a story passed down through generations. The three prize-winning competition models from 1889 are kept in the Historisches Museum Hanau.

The monument stands on the Neustädter Marktplatz in Hanau's Innenstadt, in front of the Neustädter Rathaus, and is reached on foot from the surrounding pedestrian streets. The over-life-size figures rise on a raised base with allegorical reliefs by Friedrich von Thiersch, encircled by an ornamental grille, so the best view is from a few steps back.

A popular local story claims that the bronze figures swap their positions at night when no one is watching. This legend passes from generation to generation and gives the memorial a playful, almost magical quality.