Actually, it's a statue of one of the Magi, Caspar, the three Kings from the East, who visited the Christ Child. And it's not in Germany.Jack Friday said:
This is a statue of a Moor bearing the Arms of the Habsburg noble family in Germany. It is also the double headed eagle symbol of the Holy Roman Empire...He is European and not African.
https://curate.nd.edu/articles/figure/Moor_Fountain_Overall_view/24727899/1?file=43548612
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Statue of the Moorish king, Kaspar (shown as a Black man in the traditional iconography of the three kings of the Nativity of Jesus). It is brightly painted. The column dates from 1520, and the decagonale (ten-sided) trough was probably created by Augustin Henkel. It is part of a Late Gothic or early Renaissance tradition in Swiss city fountains, most executed between 1535-1560. The most significant sculptors in this genre were Hans Geiler (fl 1513-1534), Hans Gieng (fl 1525-1562) and Laurent Perroud (fl 1584-1585).
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