{"id":3840,"title":"Teddy bear at City Hall","image":["https:\/\/visitwroclaw.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mis-przy-ratuszu-featured.jpg","https:\/\/visitwroclaw.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mis-przy-ratuszu-featured-768x354.jpg"],"gallery":[],"address":"Market Square, Wroclaw","website":null,"website_btn_title":null,"description":"<h2>Teddy bear at City Hall &#8211; how to get there?<\/h2>\n<p>The fountain &#8220;Nied\u017awiadek&#8221; is located by the Town Hall, on the Market Square in Wroclaw. You can get there by public transportation. Nearby are:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>streetcars of lines: <\/strong>3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 20, 33 (from the Rynek stop)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bus lines: <\/strong>102, 103, 104, 107, 109, 132, 142, 243 (from the Rynek stop)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Teddy bear at City Hall &#8211; the history of the fountain &#8220;Nied\u017awiadek&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>The history of the Teddy Bear at City Hall dates back to the early 20th century. Historical accounts state that a Berlin-based artist Ernst Moritz Geyger decided to sculpt him when he was surprised to notice that there was no fountain in the Wroclaw Town Square. The sculpture was made in bronze in 1902, but stood in the Breslau Market Square two years later, on August 17, 1904 to be exact. The bear by the Town Hall is about one and a half meters high and weighs nearly three hundred kilograms. The fountain was designed so that water gushes from the bear&#8217;s nostrils, which tourists can drink from cups hung on a branch. According to some sources, it is a Malayan bear.     \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Geyger&#8217;s sculpture pleased tourists for just over 20 years. During the war in 1945, it was lost during the fighting for Wroclaw. The teddy bear at City Hall stood again on June 18, 1998, on the initiative of Dr. Maciej Lagiewski, director of the Wroc\u0142aw City Museum, who seized the idea from the Bractwo Kurkowe, a medieval organization that taught townsfolk to use weapons in case there was a need to defend the city walls. The figure was reconstructed based on old photographs. Renowned Wroclaw sculptor Ryszard Zamorski is responsible for the reconstruction of the bear by the Town Hall.     \u00a0<\/p>\n","categories":["Monuments and sculptures"],"lat":51.11002815,"lng":17.030685652286714}