At least that's the message one ruler of the city issued.
This is supposed to be a 1739 sculpture of the woman Providence, who was supposedly in charge of the water supply. Providence was a bit tough for the locals to pronounce, so it was named after the artist, George Donner.
The four figures are supposedly in tribute to the area's most famous rivers.
The catch is that everyone is naked. Empress Maria Theresa didn't like that part of it, so she ordered it to be melted. That order was ignored, and the sculpture was returned to the public early in the 1800s.
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