Afrikanische Zwergziege, Bronze sculpture in Rostock, Germany.

The Afrikanische Zwergziege is a bronze goat by Gerhard Rommel, made in 1959 and set on a pedestal in the Ziegenbrunnen fountain on the Ziegenmarkt in front of the Marienkirche. The goat, modelled on an African mountain goat, stands with its head turned to look back. Two copper pipes feed a 4 × 4 m basin of yellow-brown clinker brick.

Sculptor Gerhard Rommel created the bronze goat in 1959. The fountain itself was inaugurated in 1979, twenty years later, when the figure was placed at its current spot on the Ziegenmarkt in front of the Marienkirche.

The square is called Ziegenmarkt, meaning goat market, and the bronze goat by Gerhard Rommel, cast in 1959, recalls that livestock trade. The figure stands on a pedestal and turns its head backwards. The Rostock society for urban renewal, urban development and housing construction has taken on sponsorship of the fountain.

You will find the sculpture on Ziegenmarkt in central Rostock next to a fountain. Since it stands in a public square, it is accessible daily and easy to reach on foot.

The bronze goat is a mountain goat, not a domestic breed: Gerhard Rommel modelled an African mountain goat turning its head backwards. The square's name, Ziegenmarkt (goat market), predates the fountain, which was only inaugurated in 1979, twenty years after the figure was cast.