Vierländerin-Brunnen, fountain in Hamburg-Altstadt, Germany

The Vierländerin-Brunnen is a fountain on the Hopfenmarkt in Hamburg's old city. Its octagonal stone pedestal stands in a basin and carries four bronze ducks that spout water. At the centre, a statue of a young woman in Vierlande dress leans on a yoke, a vegetable basket at her feet, beneath a cast-iron neo-Gothic canopy with triangular gables, a finial and four corner lamps.

Created in 1878 by sculptor Engelbert Peiffer and designed by Franz Andreas Meyer, it originally stood at Meßberg. After severe damage during World War II, a major restoration took place in 1953 with a new sandstone head, and a comprehensive renovation was completed in 2019 that addressed rust damage and restored water flow.

The figure depicts a woman from the Vierlande region wearing traditional regional dress with a distinctive hat and carrying vegetables. She represents the market vendors and workers from that area and shows how people earned their living in earlier times.

The fountain is centrally located on Hopfenmarkt in the old city and easily reached on foot. The site is open to the public, and daytime visits offer the best view of the stone figure and decorative details.

The stone statue base carries an inscription on its four sides: "Am Markt lernt man die Leute kennen" ("At the market you get to know people"). The fountain was made almost entirely in traditional forging techniques, and its cast-iron neo-Gothic canopy survives nearly complete.