In the story a donkey, a dog, a cat and an rooster, all mistreated by their masters, leave them and meet in a desolate place. They decide to go to Bremen, known for its freedom, to live without owners. On their way, they have a number of adventures.
This fable has a straight-forward meaning: The four animals (in pictures depicted as standing atop each other) represent the classes of the citizenry, their masters the feudal regents of the time. Bremen as a free trader's town, was their natural goal for living without masters.
Bremen remembers the tale with a three metre high bronze statue near the city hall.
The "TownMusicians of Bremen" ("Bremer Stadtmusikanten") are the famous fairy tale by the Grimm Brothers where four lost and unhappy animals, a donkey, a rooster, a cat and a dog, leave their homes and head for Bremen to become wealthy.
Bremen, 37 miles from the mouth of the River Weser and Germany’s oldest maritime city, has held markets since 965, joined the Hanseatic League in 1358 and began to trade with America in 1783.
Right next to the town hall is one of Bremen’s most famous landmarks, statue of the Street Musicians of Bremen (an ass, a dog, a cat and a cock) from the Brothers Grimmfairy tale.
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