Famous statue in Brussels, Belgium. Specially dedicated to my friend Aziz who likes to fool me sometimes. Aziz, this is for you :-) :-)
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Manneken-Pis, a statue in the center of Brussels and shall send a boy to pee. The 58 cm big guy on a pedestal is placed at the corner of the oven and Eikstraat Street, not far from the Grand Place. It is a bronze statue that Jerome Duquesnoy in 1619 commissioned by the city council has made as decorations in a public fountain where it seems as if the boy urineert. Plastering it on special occasions beer or wine instead of water.
The current statue is a copy of the first, that was destroyed in 1817.
Manneken-Pis is world famous for its playful look and legends that person were to be woven. The most famous legend tells about a boy who had saved the city by flames or a burning fuse to extinguish it by urine.
Even his extensive wardrobe of more than 700 costumes is known worldwide. His first dress was on May 1, 1698 donated by the governor of the Austrian Netherlands, Emanuel Maximilian II of Bavaria, on the occasion of the celebrations of one of the guilds of Brussels. Still, every opportunity to comply with the Manneken a new kostuumpje to donate. They are made so that the guy still has his daily work can continue to exercise. The clothing of the Manneken is carefully kept in the museum of the city on the Grand Place. His jaslengte is 25 cm, 26 cm length his pants. His wardrobe consists of, inter alia, an Elvis Presley-kostuumpje, football uniforms, a Mickey Mouse outfit, and many others. The Manneken has now (2006) for 30 years, an official dresser, the true Brussels Jacques Stroobants. His wife made about two costumes for Manneken Pis.
The statue was already several times of his pedestal reached by hooligans and jokes makers. For example, on June 26, 1817, when in a newspaper following poem of consolation to the baffled Brussels was published:
Ey sweet girls! Cease cry Al koomt gy by Dees dievery a sweet consolation to be missed; he will nerstig research sometimes out of the corner Koomen without hesitation to urinate.
The dispute between Brussels and Donegal (see Manneken Pis of Geraardsbergen), which revolves around the question of who is now the oldest statue of the identical twins would have, probably never gets resolved.
In 1985, Manneken-Pis a "sister" received Jeanneke Pis. This is a recent initiative of the local catering industry without historical basis.
In French-Flemish village Broksele is also a statue of Manneken Pis. It was adopted by the city of Brussels to the small village paid, because the equal etymology of the two place names (both of "Broeksele", or "establishment in the swamp").
In the Senegalese Koksijde district was from 1926 a statue of Manneken Pis placed by a Brussels colonel. Later it was replaced by a statue, Our Lady, on June 21, 2008, the statue officially restored.