It is the only preserved original city cistern. Before the construction of the aqueduct, ten similar cisterns served as a reservoir of drinking water for the citizens. Until the time of Joseph II, no Jews were allowed to live in Prešov except during the market period. Marek Holländer, a wealthy Halych merchant, was the first to successfully break this ban in the second half of the 1880s. Despite the laws already in force at that time (a special decree of Joseph II allowed Jews to settle in royal towns except for mining towns), both the town council and the merchants' guild opposed his presence. However, thanks to his good relations with the monarch, he managed to stay in the town, buy a house, a shop and even obtain burgher rights. Out of gratitude, he then had this fountain built in one of the cisterns. The author of the statue of Neptune with a trident, surrounded by aquatic animals - a fish, a frog, a snake, a turtle and a crocodile, is the Košice stonemason and sculptor Vincent Staviarsky, who completed the sculpture in 1826.
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