Düxer Bock, Bronze memorial statue in Deutz, Germany

The Düxer Bock is a bronze goat by sculptor Gerhard Marcks, mounted on a 2.50-metre column topped with a simplified Romanesque cushion capital. A plain rectangular fountain basin sits at the base. It stands on the small square at Lorenzstraße, not at the historic Siegburger Straße 24 site, which is now a lawn.

The memorial was installed in 1964 by sculptor Gerhard Marcks at Lorenzstraße, with its name tracing back to a building documented in the area since 1512. This connection spans more than 450 years of local naming tradition.

The legend tells of a tailor in Siegburger Straße whose caged songbirds disturbed a tax collector's sleep; the collector hung a bleating goat in a birdcage, then a stone goat above his door. The tailor's daughter Gertrud and the collector's son Fritz met secretly, and years later she bought the house with the goat and married him. The medieval custom required journeyman tailors to kiss the stone goat after passing their exam.

The monument stands on a small square off Lorenzstraße, not at the historical Siegburger Straße 24 site, which is now a lawn. The square had no official name until June 2017. The bronze sits on a 2.50-metre column above a rectangular fountain basin, so it is seen from below; the fountain was listed as a monument in 1989.

In medieval times, tailor apprentices had to perform a ritual of kissing a stone goat after passing their examination in Deutz. This custom reveals how closely the craft guilds were tied to local traditions.