Poznań Goats, Turret clock at Town Hall in Old Market Square, Poznań, Poland

The Poznań Goats are two mechanical figures that emerge from small doors above the clock face on the Town Hall in the Old Market Square. At noon, they clash their heads twelve times in a brief theatrical performance repeated daily.

Locksmith master Bartłomiej Wolf of Gubin built the clock with the goat device in 1551. Lightning destroyed the tower, clock and goats in 1675. The mechanism was rebuilt in 1910–1913, wrecked in the 1945 Battle of Poznań, restarted in 1954, and replaced on 12 June 1993 with a unit funded by Marian Marcinkowski.

The legend tells of Master Bartholomew of Gubin's clock and the cook Pietrek, who left a roasting deer leg to watch the mechanism, burned it, and grabbed two goats from a meadow; the goats escaped onto the tower cornice and butted, amusing the voivode, so the mayor pardoned Pietrek and ordered the clock goats. The real goats were returned to a poor widow.

The goats butt heads at 12:00 daily, and since 2022 also at 15:00, on the Town Hall tower. The figures slide out from inside the building, so watch the tower rather than the clock face. The square fills up before noon; arrive early to find a spot with a clear view of the tower.

The goats are made of aluminium sheet coated with anti-corrosion paint. The 1993 mechanism, built by a team from Poznań University of Technology led by Stefan Krajewski, uses a 180 W motor with a planetary gearbox, three times weaker than the 1954 drive, and lets the butting speed and number of clashes be adjusted.